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Acting Out: The Body in Video - Then and Now... |
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Action PaintingJackson 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... |
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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 ... |
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The Actor's ImageThe "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... |
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Ad Absurdum: Energies of the Absurd from Modernism till TodayTaking 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.... |
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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... |
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Adam ElsheimerElsheimer had an influence to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small oeuvre. Born in Frankfurt, he soon migrated to Rome, where the new Baroque style was being forged, both by Caravaggio and other Italians and by visiting northerners. Influenced himself by Atdorfer, Tintoretto, and Bassano, Elsheimer in turn became a revered model for both rubens and Rembrandt, all the French and Flemish painters who visited Rome, and native Italians such as Agostino Tasso and Saraceni. He ... |
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ADAPTATION. Redesigning the everyday.ADAPTATION is a project about the impact of design in people's daily lives and the 'redesign' of public spaces by the people who use them. We have invited artists who approach design and everyday life in various ways: Adams, APA (Akay, Kidpele and Made), Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune, Marjolijn Dijkman, Brad Downey, Ulrika Erdes, Dominic Hislop and Leopold Kessler. Their work ranges from examinations of the human use and construction of space in photographic documentation and research to inter... |
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