"This important study introduces the key theories of national identity, and relates them to the broad fields of product, graphic and fashion design. Javier Gimeno-Martinez approaches the inter-relationship between national identity and cultural production from two perspectives: …
Over recent years a greater diversity of spaces has opened up worldwide for the making and display of art beyond the gallery. A new "space consciousness" has developed, with an emphasis on the significance of the spatial. Judith Rugg takes up a range of site-specific artworks in…
Site-specific art is mushrooming across the world. This book contains an illustrated exploration of international site-specific artworks.
In hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become. _x000D__x000D_In this follow-up to 2007's drawing now: between the lines of contemporary art, P…
Hyperdrawing: beyond the line of contemporary art
by Sawdon, Phil, Marshall, Russell
fromTRACEY
In this book, authors and artists come together to explore the potential of what drawing in contemporary art theory and practice might become. In this follow-up to 2007's 'Drawing Now: between the lines of contemporary art', the editors of 'TRACEY' curate contemporary drawing wi…
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction -- 1. Designing Hierarchy -- 2. Managing Change -- 3. Negotiating Privacy and Communication -- 4. Personalizing the Workstation -- 5. Supporting Technology -- 6. Facilitating Movement Conclusion Notes Index. "Inspired by a progressi…
"In and Out of View represents a significant contribution to the literature on censorship. The twenty-two components of this anthology, which include essays, interviews, and statements by over forty contributors from diverse backgrounds and practices, focus on art production and…
This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history, arguing that art offers fruitful strategies for creating historical consciousness and perspectives for political agency. The analytical instrument of anachrony come…
Fifty years after the first experiments in computational art, international interest in the history of this subject remains strong and at the same time almost uncovered. This book began with the exhibition Algorithmic Signs, which was conceived, researched and curated by Frances…
In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction - from the demolition derby where makeshift cars crashed into each other for sport, to concerts where musicians destroyed their instruments, to performances of self-destructing machines staged by contemporary ar…
"Each of us develops and enacts strategies for living our everyday lives. These may confirm the general tendency towards new forms of connected solitude, in which we work, travel and live alone, yet feel sociable mainly by means of technology. Alternatively, they may help to cre…
Painting has often been declared dead since the 1960s and yet it refuses to die. Even the status and continued legitimacy of the medium has been repeatedly placed in question. As such, painting has had to continually redefine its own parameters and re-negotiate for itself a crit…
Accused by the tabloid press of setting out to 'shock', controversial artworks are vigorously defended by art critics, who frequently downplay their disturbing emotional impact. This is the first book to subject contemporary art to a rigorous ethical exploration. It argues that,…
Most talk of and writing on art is about its relationship to creation and creativity. This of course takes various forms, but ultimately the creative act in the making of art works is a key issue. What happens when we put together art and destruction? This has been referenced in…
There's nothing pure about modernism. For all the later critical emphasis upon 'medium specificity', modernist artists in their own times revel in the exchange of motifs and tropes from one kind of art to another; they revel in staging events where different media play crucial r…