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Venice
Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.
Surface
What is the place of materiality—the expression or condition of physical substance—in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in the contemporary world. Arguing that materiality is not a question of the materials themselves but rather the substance of material relations, Bruno investigates the space of those relations, examining how they appear on the surface of different media—on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on the skins of buildings and people. The object of vi...
The Roof Garden Commission: Petrit Halilaj: Abetare
Petrit Halilaj’s immersive installations express the artist’s wish to alter the course of personal and collective histories, creating complex worlds that claim space for freedom, desire, intimacy, and identity. In his first major outdoor installation, the artist explores the intersection of reality and fantasy through the rich world of children’s drawings. This volume examines Halilaj’s inspiration for the work in found inscriptions, carvings, and scribbles collected from desks at his former primary school and other schools in Eastern Europe—a record of children’s fantasies, fears, and private messages conveyed in many languages. An interview with Halilaj connects his practice with those of artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Julio González, situates this project within his broader career, and considers how memory, identity, and history present in his work. This publication reveals his new installation to be at once a story of children in a time and place marked by social and political conflict and a universal reflection on youthful imagination, hopes, yearnings, anxieties, and dreams.
Routledge Handbook to Luigi Nono and Musical Thought
Of the post-war, post-serialist generation of European composers, it was Luigi Nono who succeeded not only in identifying and addressing aesthetic and technical questions of his time, but in showing a way ahead to a new condition of music in the twenty-first century. His music has found a listenership beyond the ageing constituency of ‘contemporary music’. In Nono’s work, the audiences of sound art, improvisation, electronic, experimental and radical musics of many kinds find common cause with those concerned with the renewal of Western art music. His work explores the individually and socially transformative role of music; its relationship with history and with language; the nature of...
Autoritär, elitär & unzugänglich
Dürfen ein toter Haifisch in einer mit Formalin gefüllten Theke von Damien Hirst oder die Skulptur eines enormen Luftballonhündchens von Jeff Koons als Kunst verstanden werden? Liegen Denk- und Handlungsweisen in der heutigen Kunstwelt jenen des Aktienmarkts näher, oder entsprechen sie den gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen, also einer zugänglichen Kunst? Gibt es noch Künstler*innen, die einen demokratischeren oder partizipatorischen Weg planen? Welchen Sinn für Ästhetik schafft zeitgenössische Kunst in ihren mannigfaltigen Erscheinungen und wie werden dadurch Machtrelationen bzw. soziale Bedingungen geprägt? Der Essay geht diesen Fragen nach und bewegt sich an der Schnittstelle von Ästhetik, Kunstgeschichte, Soziologie und Wirtschaftslehre, um auch anhand von Beispielen die facettierte Beschaffenheit der heutigen Kunstwelt kritisch zu durchdenken. Der Kunstraum wird dabei als politisches Schlachtfeld verstanden, wo Kunstsinn und Autoritätsvergabe auf dem Spiel stehen.
Emilio Vedova: A Historical Survey
The work of Emilio Vedova, born in Venice in 1919, has always fused political critique and artistic engagement. From his early days as a participant in the Resistance of the 1940s and a signer of the manifesto "Oltre Guernica, "Vedova has never stopped working, protesting and challenging himself. He began with his own artistic education: he is essentially self-taught, and has not shied away from continuing to experiment with new techniques and formats. Best known for painting--for which he was awarded the Venice Biennale's Grand Prize in 1960--he has also designed costumes and moving light sets for the opera and made large-scale glass engravings and light collages. "Emilio Vedova" documents a selection of his work from the 1950s to today.
