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The disabled body in contemporary art
This volume analyzes the representation of disabled and disfigured bodies in contemporary art and its various contexts, from art history to photography to medical displays to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century freak show.
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Paradise is now : palm trees in art
Seit èuber zweitausend Jahren erfreut sich die Palme im Morgen- und Abendland einer auاergewèohnlichen Beliebtheit. èUber Kontinente, Religionen und Kulturen hinweg erzèahlt sie Geschichten von Wohlstand, Frieden und Seelenheil. Kein anderes Motiv transportiert diese Glèucksversprechen èuberzeugender als die Palme. Allgegenwèartig in der Werbung und den sozialen Medien beschwèort sie in der sèakularen Welt Vorstellungen von Luxus, Jetset und ewigen Sonnenschein herauf und reprèasentiert ein modernes Paradies. Auch die bildende Kunst kann ihrem visuellen Reiz und ihrer metaphorischen Kraft nicht widerstehen. Vor diesem reichen kulturellen Hintergrund wird in der begleitenden Publikation zur Ausstellung 'Paradise is Now' die vielseitige Darstellung von Palmen in der zeitgenèossischen Kunst aufgezeigt: Was steht hinter der Popularitèat dieses Emblems und welche Bedeutungsebenen und Widersprèuche offenbaren sich im Zuge der kèunstlerischen Auseinandersetzung? Neben Texten von Bret Easton Ellis, Leif Randt und Norman Rosenthal versammelt die Publikation u.a. Werke von John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Rodney Graham, Secundino Hernâandez, David Hockney, Alicja Kwade, Sigmar Polke, Ed Ruscha und Rirkrit Tiravanija. Exhibition: Robert Grunenberg & Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany (26.04.-30.06.2018).
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Judging the Image
Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. This book provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination. Concepts of memory and interpretation, violence and aesthetic, authority and legitimacy are considered in a diverse range of sites, including:
body, performance and regulation
judgment, censorship and controversial artworks
graffiti and the aesthetics of public space
HIV and the art of the disappearing body
witnessing, ethics and the performance of suffering
memorial images - art in the wake of disaster.
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Aesthetics, Arts, and Politics in a Global World
A different set of purposes define culture today than those that preoccupied the world in the immediate decades of decolonization. Focusing on art and music in diverse parts of the world, Daniel Herwitz explores a world that has largely shifted from the earlier days of nationalism, decolonization and cultural exclusion, to one of global markets and networks. Using examples from India and Mexico to South Africa, Australia and China, Herwitz argues that the cultural politics and art being produced in these places are now post- postcolonial. Where the postcolonial downplayed formerly Eurocentric forms and celebrated art with national consciousness, the rules for 21st century cultural authenticity are quickly disappearing. Young people think of themselves in relation to global culture rather than nation-building; the project of producing a new and modern art for the incipient and rising postcolonial nation is out of date. By examining the shift in which art accesses the past and the rise of trends such as hitching consumer culture to celebrity forms and branding, Herwitz’s original and engaging exploration of contemporary art captures the ways in which art has given way to a new form of production, altering everything from the role of tradition and heritage in contemporary art to the terms of its vision and circulation.
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Breaking Resemblance
In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion by focusing on the ways artists re-work religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power— iconic and political. It discusses a number of exhibitions that take religion as their central theme, and a selection of works by Bill Viola, Lawrence Malstaf, Victoria Reynolds, and Berlinde de Bruyckere—all of whom, in their respective ways and media, recycle religious motifs and iconography and whose works resonate with, or problematize the motif of, the true image.
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Nonconformers : a new history of self-taught artists
When the art world has paid attention to makers from outside the cultural establishment, including so-called outsider and self-taught artists, it has generally been within limiting categories. Yet these artists, including many women, people with disabilities, and people of color, have had a transformative influence on the history of modern art. Responding to growing interest in these artists, this book offers a nuanced history of their work and how it has been understood from the early twentieth century to the present day.0Nonconformers includes work by well-known figures such as Henry Darger, Hilma af Klint, and Bill Traylor alongside many other artists who deserve widespread recognition. After reviewing how self-taught artists factored into key movements of twentieth-century art, the book shifts to highlighting the voices of contemporary practitioners through new interviews with artists William Scott, Mamadou Cisse, and George Widener. An international group of contributors addresses topics such as the development of the Black Folk Art movement in America and l'Art Brut in France, the creative process of self-taught artists working outside of traditional studios, and the themes of figuration, landscape, and abstraction. Global in scope and with chronological breadth, this alternative narrative is an essential introduction to the genre long known as \"Outsider Art\"--Publisher.
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Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome
In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by contemporary international artists who have stayed at the city's foreign academies.
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