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This book seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavor which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity.
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This work presents the key visual and textual documents on postwar avant garde art and theory. It brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers and artists in an anthology of texts and images of the development of Western culture and critical theory since 1945. A montage of visual documents recounts the postwar history of the avant garde in all areas of artistic creation: architecture, film, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, performance and more. A parallel sequence of texts ranges from key source material of the last 50 years to contemporary contributions examining the turning points of culture since the war. In addition to analyzing the history of the avant garde, the contemporary essayists - among them Etienne Balibar, Benjamin Buchloh, Andrea Branzi and Masao Miyoshi - explore the critical potential of artistic activity in the contemporary context of globalization, where the promises of new forms meet the realities of economic inequality, ecological crisis, and rising social conflict.
Edited by the curator of the 1997 exhibition, the book is an integral part of "documenta X" rather tha a catalogue of the exhibition, and, as such, stands alone. It is should be valuable for working writers, theorists, curators and artists as well as providing students with a reference source."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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POLeITICS : DUCUMENTA X - THE BOOK
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Hardcover. 830 pages. Idea and conception by Catherine David and Jean-Francois Chevrier. "This book seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present." shipping will be extra for this large and heavy book, please inquire.; 9 1/2 x 11 1/4 " Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 96062
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830 pp.; 28.5 x 24 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1997. Artists include Vito Acconci, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Öyvind Fahlström, Armand Gatti, Jean-Luc Godard, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Richard Hamilton, Maria Lassnig, Hélio Oiticica, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Nancy Spero, Garry Winogrand, Robert Adams, Art & Language, Lothar Baumgarten, James Coleman, Toni Grand, Mike Kelley, Helen Levitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Thomas Schütte, Jeff Wall, Martin Kippenberger, Ecke Bonk, Tony Oursler, Reinhard Mucha, Erik Steinbrecher, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Johan Grimonprez, Gabriel Orozco, Carsten Höller, Rosemarie Trockel, Olaf Nicolai, Tunga, Peter Kogler, Philip Pocock, Florian Wenz, Udo Noll, Felix Stephan Huber, Yana Milev, Suzanne Lafont, Peter Friedl, Stephen Craig, Catherine Beaugrand, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Emilio Prini, Martin Walde, Collective La ciutat de la gent, Lois Weinberger, Matthew Ngui, Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, Aya & Gal Middle East, and Marko Peljhan. Original texts by Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, Etienne Balibar, Andrea Branzi, Benjamin Buchloh, Peter Bürger, Jean-Marie Chauvier, Daniel Defert, Werner Durth, Fabrizio Gallanti, Serge Gruzinski, David Harvey, Andreas Huyssen, Benjamin Joly, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Dominique Lecourt, Alain Lipietz, Masao Miyoshi, Peter Noller, Jacques Rancière, Klaus Ronneburger, Hans-Joachim Ruckhaeberle, Saskia Sassen, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Francis Strauven, Paul Sztulman, Max Welch Guerra. Includes author biographies. "For the first time in the history of documenta, the companion publication attempts to go beyond a survey and interpretation of the exhibited works of art to document and analyze the cultural development of the western world from 1945 to 1997 in a rich selection of paintings, photos, plans, sketches, maps, essays, quotations, discussions, poems, philosophical essays and manifestos. The book unites the diverse forms of expression in an impressive collage. The artists of documenta X are introduced in a number of artist's inserts. A provocative, enlivening and thoroughly current reader and reference work for anyone interested in the art and culture of our times." -- publisher's statement. Fine. Covers, dust-jacket and contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders. Seller Inventory # 39962
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