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In this exhibition leaflet, the authors discuss 36 paintings of varying genres by five painters. ... more In this exhibition leaflet, the authors discuss 36 paintings of varying genres by five painters. Biographical notes. 3 bibl. ref
Art History, 2003
was the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, the so-called 'genius... more was the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, the so-called 'genius' award. Most recently, Walker was the featured US artist at the 25 th Bienal Internacional de Sã o Paolo (23 March-2 June 2002). As a complex and controversial artist who powerfully references the institution of slavery and the visual resources of racial stereotyping, Walker's work continues to raise issues germane to an understanding of the African-American diaspora. While clearly indexed to the debate on ethnically explicit visual art in the United States, Walker's concerns and the controversies they engender are not without resonance for contemporary British artists, critics and historians. Work of the past decade by British artists of Afro-Caribbean descent, such as Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien and Keith Piper, serves to demonstrate the continuing vitality in visual art of the issue of race and the Black diaspora. It also shows how artists have managed to extend such analyses by inflecting them with gender and class. Not surprisingly, some of the most generative work in the field has been, and continues to be, produced by women artists.
©1999 Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology All rights reserved. No part ot this book may be repr... more ©1999 Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology All rights reserved. No part ot this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the ...
Word & Image, 1993
Abstract Reflecting in 1973 on the recent history of Conceptual Art,1 Lucy Lippard remarked: ‘Hop... more Abstract Reflecting in 1973 on the recent history of Conceptual Art,1 Lucy Lippard remarked: ‘Hopes that “conceptual art” would be able to avoid the general commercialization, the destructively “progressive” approach of modernism, were for the most part unfounded. It seemed in 1969 … that no one, not even a public greedy for novelty, would actually pay money, or much of it, for a xerox sheet referring to an event past or never directly perceived, a group of photographs documenting an ephemeral situation or condition, a project for work never to be completed, words spoken but not recorded.’2 Lippard concludes that conceptual art's trump card- the so-called ‘dematerialization’ of the art object- ultimately had little or no impact upon the prevalent commodification of art.3 The liberation of artist and public alike from the managerial prerogatives of critics, curators, collectors and their respective institutions seemed to have been delayed indefinitely.
Dallas Pavilion 2019 presents a set of alternative models for cultural development and commentary... more Dallas Pavilion 2019 presents a set of alternative models for cultural development and commentary highlighting the diversity of urban communities over the narrower commercial interests of corporate developers and the tourist industry. n 2012, Michael Corris and Jasper Joseph-Lester commissioned individuals living in Dallas to submit a short text describing a specific space of cultural production within the environs of the DFW Metroplex. The result was the 2013 Dallas Pavilion, an eighty-eight-page handbook published by Free Museum of Dallas Press and distributed free of charge during the artist and press preview week of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Dallas Pavilion was intended to function as a virtual pavilion showcasing the cultural aspirations of Dallas and Fort Worth. In the publication, civic institutions of culture, DIY exhibition spaces, and other expressions of cultural vitality within the DFW Metroplex were given equal weight.
This book is the first attempt to chart the history of art and its interaction with written langu... more This book is the first attempt to chart the history of art and its interaction with written language. Art, Word and Image examines the use of words (or language) in many genres of art - most often painting, but including prints, the book as art, sculpture, installation, and performance. This book asks what does it mean when a painting is 'invaded' by language? How do the two forms converse and combine, and what messages are intended for the viewer? In addition, other important themes that are also addressed include the naming or titling of paintings, the uses of narrative in art, and the literary connections and aspirations of artists. Art, Word and Image is constructed around three wide-ranging essays by John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas and Michael Corris. These essays discuss the use and significance of words in art - from Classical Greece and Assyria, through to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times and today's digital media, where the words and image quest...
Transmission Annual Labour, Work, Action is framed by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on three import... more Transmission Annual Labour, Work, Action is framed by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on three important themes of human agency. Arendt refused to be called a philosopher, for philosophy, she said, deals with the singular, while she addressed the plural, that humans not man inhabit the world. She proposes that freedom is constructed in community, in common space, and it is associative, performative, and public. In The Human Condition (1958), she develops her theory of political action, drawing out the distinctions between what is social and what is political, and then what is labour, what is work, what is action (and thus, how is agency achieved, the capacity to act, to make choices, undetermined by supposedly natural forces). Arendt proposes three important human activities: labour, work, and political action. She is as materialist as Karl Marx: labour is a biological activity, a vital necessity operating under constraint. The goal of production is to produce, and there is a constant e...
In this collection of essays, the art critic, John Roberts, draws together studies of key post-wa... more In this collection of essays, the art critic, John Roberts, draws together studies of key post-war and contemporary artists. Written by art historians and artist-writers, these essays take a critical look at the construction of recent modern art history in both its traditional and radical forms. The artists discussed include Francis Picabia, Ad Reinhardt, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Anselm Keifer, Mary Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Victor Burgin and Laurie Anderson. This book provides an overview of art since 1945 and a guide to the debates it has engendered. At the same time, it aims to reassert the value of critical art history as an antidote to the vagaries of fashion and self-promotion that mark much writing on art today.
Introduction: 'An Invisible College in an Anglo-American World' Part I. Artists, Object, ... more Introduction: 'An Invisible College in an Anglo-American World' Part I. Artists, Object, Spectator: 1. The formalist connection and originary myths of Conceptual art Frances Colpitt 2. Content, context and conceptual art: Dan Graham's Schema Alex Aberro 3. 'Almost not photography' Melanie Marino 4. Soft talk/soft tape: the early collaborations of Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden Ann Stephen Part II. Display: 5. The second degree: working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art James Meyer 6. When Attitudes become Form and the contest over Conceptual art's history Alison Green 7. Understanding Information Ken Allan 8. 'The rotting sack of humanism': Robert Morris and authorship Richard J. Williams Part III. Recoding Information, Knowledge, and Technology: 9. Affluence, taste and the brokering of knowledge: notes on the social context of early conceptual art Robert Hobbs 10. Hanne Darboven: seriality and the time of ...
In this exhibition leaflet, the authors discuss 36 paintings of varying genres by five painters. ... more In this exhibition leaflet, the authors discuss 36 paintings of varying genres by five painters. Biographical notes. 3 bibl. ref
Art History, 2003
was the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, the so-called 'genius... more was the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant, the so-called 'genius' award. Most recently, Walker was the featured US artist at the 25 th Bienal Internacional de Sã o Paolo (23 March-2 June 2002). As a complex and controversial artist who powerfully references the institution of slavery and the visual resources of racial stereotyping, Walker's work continues to raise issues germane to an understanding of the African-American diaspora. While clearly indexed to the debate on ethnically explicit visual art in the United States, Walker's concerns and the controversies they engender are not without resonance for contemporary British artists, critics and historians. Work of the past decade by British artists of Afro-Caribbean descent, such as Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien and Keith Piper, serves to demonstrate the continuing vitality in visual art of the issue of race and the Black diaspora. It also shows how artists have managed to extend such analyses by inflecting them with gender and class. Not surprisingly, some of the most generative work in the field has been, and continues to be, produced by women artists.
©1999 Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology All rights reserved. No part ot this book may be repr... more ©1999 Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology All rights reserved. No part ot this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the ...
Word & Image, 1993
Abstract Reflecting in 1973 on the recent history of Conceptual Art,1 Lucy Lippard remarked: ‘Hop... more Abstract Reflecting in 1973 on the recent history of Conceptual Art,1 Lucy Lippard remarked: ‘Hopes that “conceptual art” would be able to avoid the general commercialization, the destructively “progressive” approach of modernism, were for the most part unfounded. It seemed in 1969 … that no one, not even a public greedy for novelty, would actually pay money, or much of it, for a xerox sheet referring to an event past or never directly perceived, a group of photographs documenting an ephemeral situation or condition, a project for work never to be completed, words spoken but not recorded.’2 Lippard concludes that conceptual art's trump card- the so-called ‘dematerialization’ of the art object- ultimately had little or no impact upon the prevalent commodification of art.3 The liberation of artist and public alike from the managerial prerogatives of critics, curators, collectors and their respective institutions seemed to have been delayed indefinitely.
Dallas Pavilion 2019 presents a set of alternative models for cultural development and commentary... more Dallas Pavilion 2019 presents a set of alternative models for cultural development and commentary highlighting the diversity of urban communities over the narrower commercial interests of corporate developers and the tourist industry. n 2012, Michael Corris and Jasper Joseph-Lester commissioned individuals living in Dallas to submit a short text describing a specific space of cultural production within the environs of the DFW Metroplex. The result was the 2013 Dallas Pavilion, an eighty-eight-page handbook published by Free Museum of Dallas Press and distributed free of charge during the artist and press preview week of the 2013 Venice Biennale. Dallas Pavilion was intended to function as a virtual pavilion showcasing the cultural aspirations of Dallas and Fort Worth. In the publication, civic institutions of culture, DIY exhibition spaces, and other expressions of cultural vitality within the DFW Metroplex were given equal weight.
This book is the first attempt to chart the history of art and its interaction with written langu... more This book is the first attempt to chart the history of art and its interaction with written language. Art, Word and Image examines the use of words (or language) in many genres of art - most often painting, but including prints, the book as art, sculpture, installation, and performance. This book asks what does it mean when a painting is 'invaded' by language? How do the two forms converse and combine, and what messages are intended for the viewer? In addition, other important themes that are also addressed include the naming or titling of paintings, the uses of narrative in art, and the literary connections and aspirations of artists. Art, Word and Image is constructed around three wide-ranging essays by John Dixon Hunt, David Lomas and Michael Corris. These essays discuss the use and significance of words in art - from Classical Greece and Assyria, through to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times and today's digital media, where the words and image quest...
Transmission Annual Labour, Work, Action is framed by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on three import... more Transmission Annual Labour, Work, Action is framed by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on three important themes of human agency. Arendt refused to be called a philosopher, for philosophy, she said, deals with the singular, while she addressed the plural, that humans not man inhabit the world. She proposes that freedom is constructed in community, in common space, and it is associative, performative, and public. In The Human Condition (1958), she develops her theory of political action, drawing out the distinctions between what is social and what is political, and then what is labour, what is work, what is action (and thus, how is agency achieved, the capacity to act, to make choices, undetermined by supposedly natural forces). Arendt proposes three important human activities: labour, work, and political action. She is as materialist as Karl Marx: labour is a biological activity, a vital necessity operating under constraint. The goal of production is to produce, and there is a constant e...
In this collection of essays, the art critic, John Roberts, draws together studies of key post-wa... more In this collection of essays, the art critic, John Roberts, draws together studies of key post-war and contemporary artists. Written by art historians and artist-writers, these essays take a critical look at the construction of recent modern art history in both its traditional and radical forms. The artists discussed include Francis Picabia, Ad Reinhardt, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Anselm Keifer, Mary Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Victor Burgin and Laurie Anderson. This book provides an overview of art since 1945 and a guide to the debates it has engendered. At the same time, it aims to reassert the value of critical art history as an antidote to the vagaries of fashion and self-promotion that mark much writing on art today.
Introduction: 'An Invisible College in an Anglo-American World' Part I. Artists, Object, ... more Introduction: 'An Invisible College in an Anglo-American World' Part I. Artists, Object, Spectator: 1. The formalist connection and originary myths of Conceptual art Frances Colpitt 2. Content, context and conceptual art: Dan Graham's Schema Alex Aberro 3. 'Almost not photography' Melanie Marino 4. Soft talk/soft tape: the early collaborations of Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden Ann Stephen Part II. Display: 5. The second degree: working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art James Meyer 6. When Attitudes become Form and the contest over Conceptual art's history Alison Green 7. Understanding Information Ken Allan 8. 'The rotting sack of humanism': Robert Morris and authorship Richard J. Williams Part III. Recoding Information, Knowledge, and Technology: 9. Affluence, taste and the brokering of knowledge: notes on the social context of early conceptual art Robert Hobbs 10. Hanne Darboven: seriality and the time of ...