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Tania El Khoury's Live Art
Tania El Khoury’s Live Art is the first book to examine the work of Tania El Khoury, a “live” artist deeply engaged in the politics and histories of the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. Since the 2011 Syrian uprisings, El Khoury has conceived and created works about lived experiences at and across international borders in collaboration with migrants, refugees, and displaced persons as well as other artists, performers, and revolutionaries. All of El Khoury’s works cross borders: between forms of artistic practice, between artists and audiences, and between art and activism. Facilitating critical dialogue about the politics of SWANA and the impact of globalization, her performances and installations also test the boundaries of aesthetic, political, and everyday norms. This interdisciplinary and multimedia reader features essays by artists, curators, and scholars who explore the dynamic possibilities and complexities of El Khoury’s art. From social workers to archeologists to archivists, contributing authors engage with the radical epistemological and political revolutions that El Khoury and her collaborators invite us all to join.
Designing Transformation
Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe, and in the respective countries where they settled following the Nazi's rise to power. This book explores how Jewish architects and patrons influenced and reformed the design of towns and cities through commercial buildings, urban landscaping and other material culture. It also examines how modern identities evolved in the context of migration, commercial and professional networks, and in relation to the conflict between nationalist ideologies and international aspirations in Central Europe and beyond. Pointing to the production within cultural platforms shared by Jews and Christians, th...
The Materiality of the Archive
'Material evidences surviving in the form of writing' : materiality in archival theory and practice / Alexandrina Buchanan -- 'The true object of study' : the material body of the analogue archive / Sue Breakell -- Archival finding aids and perceptual frames : extending material contact points through Stephen Chaplin's Slade School Archive reader / Liz Bruchet -- Archiving with scissors : materiality and cutting practices in photographic archives / Costanza Caraffa -- Valentine's jacket / Maryanne Dever -- The archive as a site of making / Peter Lester -- Applications of energy : a study of artists and entropy in the material / Lisa Cianci -- Archival endings : erosion and erasure in the fil...
Southwold
The historical highlights of the sea-side town of Southwold, focusing on the social and artistic elements community. Writers and artists have always enjoyed each other!s company and Southwold has proved for hospitable to both coteries from William Shakespeare to George Orwell, from Turner to Damien Hirst.
How Soon is Now
This book is less preoccupied with dates and times than it is by the beliefs and principles that underpin them. From Pop Art and Postmodernism to the politics of gender, sexulaity, race and the body, the ICA has played a key role in questionning cultural norms and asserting new directions in art and ideas long before such movements entered the mainstream.
The Studio of Alberto Giacometti
This publication and the accompnaying exhibition echo Jean Genet's famous 1957 essay, L'Atelier d'Alberto Giaocometti. Both explore the various facets of the now famous studio on rue Hippolyte Maidron - laboratory, ritual place and major component of the artist's work. This studio where Giacometti, one of the 20th century's major artists, lived from 1926 to 1965, is probaby placed at the very core of the building, the presentation and the disemination of his work and his own image. This book is illustrated by many previously unseen archives.
Museum Through a Lens
Featuring a wealth of black-and-white photographs from the Natural History Museum's vast collection, this text offers a real flavour of life at one of London's oldest and most famous visitor attractions, from Victorian times until just after the Second World War.
A Theater Without Theater
Featuring works by artists and theoreticians including: Carl Andre, Antonin Artaud. Hugo Ball. Samuel Beckett, George Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Tadeusz Cantor, James Coleman, oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Filliou, Michael Fried, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Dan Graham, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Marinetti, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Antoni Miralda, Robert Morris. Juan Munoz. Bruce Naumann. Tony Oursler. Michelangelo Pistoletto, Oskar Schlemmer. Isidoro Valcarcel Medina, Ben Vautier.
Richard Hollis Designs for the Whitechapel
Richard Hollis was the graphic designer for London's Whitechapel Art Gallery in the years 1969-73 and 1978-85. In this second period, under the directorship of Nicholas Serota, the gallery came to the forefront of the London art scene, with pioneering exhibitions of work by Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, among others. Hollis's posters, catalogues, and leaflets, conveyed this sense of discovery, as well as being models of practical graphic design. The pressures of time and a small budget enhanced the urgency and richness of their effects. Christopher Wilson's monograph is an exemplary examination of a body of graphic design. This book matches the spirit of the work it describes: active, passionate, aesthetically refined, and committed to getting things right. As in Hollis's work, "design" here is a verb as much as a noun.
