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After the Revolution
"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" asked the prominent art historian Linda Nochlin in a provocative 1971 essay. Today her insightful critique serves as a benchmark against which the progress of women artists may be measured. In this book, four prominent critics and curators describe the impact of women artists on contemporary art since the advent of the feminist movement.
Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice
Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice presents a selection of essays, architectural experiments and works that explore the diversity within the fields of contemporary architectural practice and discourse. Specific in this selection is the question of how and why architecture can and should manifest in a critical and reflective capacity, as well as to examine how the discipline currently resonates with contemporary art practice. It does so by reflecting on the first 10 years of the architectural journal, P.E.A.R. (2009 to 2019). The volume argues that the initial aims of the journal – to explore and celebrate the myriad forms through which architecture can exist – are n...
Marguerite Humeau (English edition)
Myths, fantasies and speculations lie at the heart of Marguerite Humeau’s work. Always treading the line between research and fiction, her projects result from in-depth investigations and collaborations with specialists and scientists. At the Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary, Humeau is offering a series of unique physical and sensory experiences. Her exhibition FOXP2 is named for the gene whose mutation enabled the arrival of articulate language at the source of our humanity. Here the artist is re-enacting the origins of life and the development of conscious life forms. Imagining a world where giant elephants dominate the planet, Humeau has artificially designed creatures endowe...
Sonia Boyce
The first major publication to explore the work of Sonia Boyce, one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists, including her newest and most ambitious work to date The British artist Sonia Boyce (b. 1962) is celebrated for depicting intimate social encounters that explore interpersonal dynamics in drawing, photography, video, and installation, using images and sounds captured during the participatory art events she initiates. Boyce's immersive new exhibition for the British Council commission at La Biennale di Venezia 2022 is her most ambitious to date--focussing on collaborative play as a route to artistic innovation and the importance of taking creative risks--both central tenets of ...
Of this Tale, I Cannot Guarantee a Single Word
Accompanying catalogue for 'Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word', an exhibition curated by graduating students from the Curating Contemporary Art Department. Exploring the way in which stories are told, 'Of this Tale, I cannot guarantee a single word' looked to literature, comic books, cinema, documentary and oral traditions. Equally the writing in this catalogue not only explores the artists in the show, but also the different genres and media through which we come to learn the stories that form our shared history.
Beyond the World's End
In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists are diversely addressing urgent themes, including John Akomfrah's cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with current environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees in work by Forensic Architecture and Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, and moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice in projects by Arthur Jafa and Martine Syms. Demos considers video and mixed-media art that responds to resource extraction in works by Angela Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, as well as the multispecies ecologies of Terike Haapoja and Public Studio. Throughout Demos contends that contemporary intersections of aesthetics and politics, as exemplified in the Standing Rock #NoDAPL campaign and the Zad's autonomous zone in France, are creating the imaginaries that will be crucial to building a socially just and flourishing future.
El largo camino a Xico
"The first extensive monograph for Brazilian artist and activist Maria Thereza Alves, and the subject of her solo show at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporneo in Seville (2015), The Long Road to Xico gathers more than 20 projects made between 1991 and 2015. The publication includes several rare works in the United States and Brazil and an early participant in discourses around post-colonialism and ecology. Includes essays by the editor, Pedro de Llano, and TJ Demos, internationally recognized professor of art and visual culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (2016)."--Amazon.
Descolonizar la naturaleza
Es verdad que la ecología ha recibido escasa atención en el ámbito de la historia del arte, pero también es cierto que su visibilidad e importancia han ido creciendo en los últimos tiempos, de la mano de las amenazas del cambio climático y la destrucción medioambiental. Al imbricar el extendido compromiso político y estético de diversos artistas con procesos y condiciones medioambientales por todo el planeta –y dirigiendo su mirada a los punteros avances teóricos, políticos y culturales que se han producido y producen en el Sur y el Norte globales–, el presente libro ofrece una significativa y original contribución a los campos interconectados la historia del arte, la ecología, la cultura visual, la geografía y la política medioambiental.A lo largo de sus seis capítulos, su autor aborda las propuestas creativas de diversos artistas y activistas en pos de formas de vida que aúnen sostenibilidad ecológica,justicia climática y democracia radical, en un momento como el presente en el que se necesitan con urgencia este tipo de propuestas.
British Art Show 9
An unrivaled survey of contemporary art from the UK Taking place every five years, the British Art Showis the largest touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK. This catalog features artworks from its ninth edition, by artists including Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Simeon Barclay, Heather Phillipson and Alberta Whittle.
