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Cocktail International
This monograph encompasses works dating from 1989 to 2005, from Lucander's early abstract phase to the wooden panel paintings and the current watercolours.
Hanakam & Schuller
Hanakam & Schuller are tricksters. As artists and researchers, they remodel the rules of fine art, creating idiosyncratic orders and new world designs incorporated in videos and objects. The artefacts of the two artists from Vienna are "Gestalt-changers"; they change their outer shape and re-appear in a number of different contexts. The trickster art book illustrates the oeuvre and provides an insight into its making using multi-page photo spreads from video stills, and production photographs. The Arkadikon essay captures readers and leads them to contemporary hypothetical landscapes, deconstructing them as modern surrogates of an increasingly virtual world. The artists discuss ideal, pop, aura and abduction with Angela Stief, Anselm Franke, Uta Grosenick, Annette Hünnekens, Wolfgang Ullrich, Lois Weinberger, Stephanie Weber und Oliver Zybok.
Colours and Trips
>Das zeitgenössische Bild ist heute Zwischenstation diverser Zeichenprozesse, in die es sich jeweils übertragen lässt und aus deren Übertragung es kommt: ein Relais zwischen Zustandsweisen von Zechen und Verfahren der Bezeichnung. Es existiert als ein ephemeres Moment zwischen Transformationsprozessen: als etwas, das nicht nur übertragen wird, sondern das aus der Übertragung kommt und Übertrag ist. Das Bild ist Zwischenspeicher und Zwischenablage geworden; es bringt als bleibend hervor, was sonst in der Herstellung verschwindet. Malerei kann sich aufgrund dessen nicht mehr selbstbezüglich mit ihrem eigenen Medium und ihrer eigenen Geschichte beschäftigen. Sie blickt stattdessen aus ihren Zwischenspeichern auf andere Medien und Verfahren als Herstellung von Zeichen, die sie aufgreift und damit deren ursprüngliche Medialtät in Frage stellt.
Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance
Examines the pervasive presence of surveillance and how surveillance technologies alter the performance of everyday life
W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory
W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others – while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology.
The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods
'The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods' explores different ways of understanding the city. The social city approach proceeds from the ground-up, it focuses on human interactions shaped by economic and environmental processes. The built city method looks through a top-down lens, examining policy and planning for buildings and infrastructure, including utilities and energy networks. This volume is different from other city anthologies in that it explores them through their differences, by presenting each chapter in one of the two categories. While there is invariably an overlap between the two areas, they are distinct positions. In doing so the book identifies how, despite ...
Neue Deutsche Malerei
One of the most important artistic movements in recent years is chronicled and showcased in this dynamic work.Born in Germany in the years following the collapse of the Communist regime, the New Leipzig School started when a group of classmates at the Leipzig Academy rediscovered figurative art. Their paintings reflected the melancholy that pervaded East Germany as it struggled with capitalism, high unemployment and depopulation. Fifteen year later, paintings by the Leipzig school and its related movement, Dresden Pop, are conquering the international art market. The authors take on this important trend one painter at a time. They examine each artist's oeuvre on its own merit and consider various factors behind the movements--the onset of the digital age, social disillusionment and individual protest. Breathtaking reproductions allow readers to form their own ideas about what constitutes and drives new German painting, and understand its significance around the world.
Douglas Kolk
"Fragmented and morbid, yet full of yearning and sensitivity, Douglas Kolk's drawings and collages show people who seem to be at odds with themselves and on the verge of collapse."--BOOK JACKET.
Shadowtime
Edited by Martin Hentschel. Text by Patrick T. Murphy, Martin Hentschel.
Minimalism and after
This volume presents works that have been purchased by the DaimlerChrysler Collection, initially only interested in Southern German artists but now international and mainly minimalist. Each work is introduced, examined and put in context.
