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	Act/React: Interactive Installation Art Playful, intuitive, a first of its kind—Act/React: Interactive Installation Art makes its world premiere at the Milwaukee Art Museum from October 4, 2008, through January 11, 2009. Showcasing a growing body of contemporary art that is visitor-dependent—without the use of specific interfaces like keyboards or touchscreens—this exhibition of motion-driven installation art empowers visitors to exercise their creativity and act on their curiosity. Act/React features the work of six pioneers of...
	Acting Out: Invented Melodrama In Contemporary Photography Acting Out examines the enduring presence of melodrama in fine art photography, considering photographs that make use of the long-standing language of melodrama inspired by literature, theatre, cinema, television, advertising, film stills, photo-journalism, and earlier photography. In her essay Kathleen Edwards discusses melodrama as an aesthetic perceptual system stemming from the development of modern society in Western Europe and the United States. Considering melodrama as a time-honored sys...
	Acting Out: The Body in Video - Then and Now ...
	Action Painting Jackson Pollock's pioneering "drip" technique provided the model for what Harold Rosenberg would term "Action Painting"--using the canvas as an arena for the emphatically physical, even balletic application of paint, and as a record of that engagement. Pollock also provided the credo for this approach: "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about The painting has a life of its own. I try to let i...
	Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 (Jewish Museum) The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied public interest in Abstract Expressionism and sparked rancorous debate? Drawing on recent critical, historical, and biographical work, this lavishly ...
	The Actor's Image The "floating world"--the closely related pleasure and entertainment districts of Tokyo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--embodied and idealized fashion, chic, and urbanity for its habitues, and inspired a profusion of woodblock prints depicting renowned courtesans and adored matinee idols. Considered ephemera in their time, these prints are treasured works of art today. In this volume of "floating world prints" (ukiyo-e), the authors present a selection of Kabuki actor portraits and t...
	Ad Absurdum: Energies of the Absurd from Modernism till Today Taking the absurd as the point of rupture between art, society and observation, this 1,152-page volume features Beuys, Duchamp, Kippenberger, Magritte, Meese, Nauman, Oppenheim, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Schwitters, Trockel, Franz West and others....
	Ad Reinhardt ...
	Ad Usum: To Be Used: Works by Pedro Reyes (David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Art Catalogs) Ad Usum is the catalogue of the retrospective exhibit of celebrated Mexican artist Pedro Reyes mounted at the Carpenter Center and organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. This is the first volume entirely dedicated to the works of Reyes, who is considered to be one of the most innovative and radical young Mexican artists. Comprehensive in its scope, the volume covers all the production of Reyes' career from the mid-1990s until the prese...