L'arte contemporanea è caleidoscopica: può catapultarci in ambienti complessi o minimali richiedendo la nostra attiva partecipazione, ancorarsi a luoghi particolari, porci di fronte a opere apparentemente indistinguibili da oggetti ed eventi della vita quotidiana, appropriarsi i…
Many people who look at art decry it for the lack of craft skill in its production, whether it be painting, photography or sculpture. This work sheds light on this obsolescence of traditional craft skills in contemporary art, exploring the technological and social developments t…
« In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion of artistic authority in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From Duchamp to Warhol, conceptual art, and t…
This book elaborates a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the modern expansion of the circuits of artitstic authorship. It involves less a discussion of specific artworks than an analysis of the kinds of labor contained in artwo…
"THE ART OF THE EVIL WITHIN is a comprehensive look at the newest horror video game by the legendary Shinji Mikami--the father of survival horror! Go behind the scenes with never-before-seen concept art and captions by the developers detailing their creative process and revealin…
American Artists on Art: from 1940 to 1980
by Kaprow, Allan, Cage, John, Wright, William, Anderson, Laurie, Pollock, Jackson, Gottlieb, Adolph, Newman, Barnett, De Kooning, Willem, Kline, Franz, Motherwell, Robert, Reinhardt, Ad, Smith, David, Nevelson, Louise, Noland, Kenneth, Olitski, Jules, Nemser, Cindy, Oldenburg, Claes, Lichtenstein, Roy, Judd, Donald, LeWitt, Sol, Bochner, Mel, Kosuth, Joseph, Irwin, Robert, Chase, Linda, Christo, Serra, Richard, Aycock, Alice, Burden, Chris, Johnson, Ellen
Olafur Eliasson
by Olafur Eliasson, Birnbaum, Daniel, Grynsztejn, Madeleine, Speaks, Michael
"A study of the artist and his poetic explorations of science and perception. Survey by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Interview by Daniel Birnbaum, Focus by Michael Speaks, Artist's Choice by Henri Bergson, Writings by Olafur Eliasson"--Publisher's website
Olafur Eliasson
by Olafur Eliasson, Birnbaum, Daniel, Grynsztejn, Madeleine, Speaks, Michael
"With images that suggest a modern day Caspar David Friedrich, sculptor, installation artist and photographer Olafur Eliasson recreates in elegant forms the extremes of the landscape and the atmospheric conditions of his native Denmark, resulting in a kind of techno-Romanticism.…