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Rifare il mondoLe età dell'avanguardia
Nessuna parola caratterizza l'arte contemporanea piú di «avanguardia ». Al punto da essere diventata, paradossalmente, sinonimo di arte in generale. Come se non si potesse piú dare gesto artistico che non fosse «d'avanguardia». Ma è ancora cosí? Di cosa parliamo quando ricorriamo a questa categoria? Duchamp e Picasso, de Chirico e Warhol, Koons e Hirst, Hockney e Kentridge. Vincenzo Tri…
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Higher Ground
Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee documents the Knoxville Museum of Arts core collection of works by artists from or with close ties to East Tennessee from roughly the mid nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The book accompanies a permanent exhibition of the same name. Both book and exhibition make the case that the visual culture of Knoxville and its Appalachi…
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Changing Images of Pictorial SpaceA History of Spatial Illusion in Painting
No artist, critic, or art historian disputes the importance of recording how and why our conceptions and methods of depicting pictorial space have changed from ancient to modern times, and yet no previous book has provided a comprehensive history centered around these changing images of pictorial space and the ways in which their evolution reflects ideological changes in society. Dunning trac…
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Annah, Infinite
This is an escape story.' Annah, Infinite turns dominant narratives of Paul Gauguin's famous painting Annah la Javanaise (c.1893-94) on its head. The work argues a simple point: there is the possibility that the portrait is a depiction of a pained child. In highlighting the plausibility of this particular scenario in light of how contradictory 'facts' surrounding Annah's life have been assemble…
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Model collapseEuropean contemporary art in a time of democratic crisis
A ground-breaking exploration of how art responds to democratic crisis. Is democracy over? Did we ever really have it? Most people would agree that today democracy finds itself in crisis. As this crisis has intensified, art has emerged as an important means of experimenting with new democratic processes and possibilities. In Model collapse, an incisive group of art historians and theorists in…
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A Practice of PleasureJoanna Frueh's performances and writings, 2005–2011
A Practice of Pleasure is an intimate and panoramic entrée into the life and work of Joanna Frueh (1948-2020), an art historian and performance practitioner for whom life and art were inseparable. Written during a key transitional moment in her life and work (2005-2012), the volume makes available primarily unpublished performance texts and writings that give an intimate insight both into Frue…
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Melchior LorckCatalogue Raisonée, Part two, volume 5
Melchior Lorck (born in Flensburg in 1526 or 1527, died c. 1583) was the first Danish artist to achieve international renown. Trained in the tradition of the German Kleinmeister, Lorck is considered one of the most original artists of sixteenth-century Europe, with a style and choice of motifs that are both austere and unique. Lorck was an itinerant Renaissance master, always on the lookout for…
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Plant FeverThe World on the Windowsill
Plant Fever. The World on the Windowsill uncovers the hidden story of how plants from tropical and subtropical regions found their way into Danish homes in the 19th century. Plant fever took the country by storm, and the green newcomers began appearing in the art of the time— first sporadically, then as a recurring motif. But houseplants are more than just decoration. They carry stories of co…
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Partir de soiExplorer la praxis de la réconciliation à travers l’enseigne…
Cet ouvrage s'intéresse à la façon dont l'agentivité de l'enseignant interagit avec la mise en œuvre des appels à l'action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada sur l'éducation, en s'appuyant sur des études réalisées auprès d'enseignants en formation et en cours d'emploi au Québec. À partir de l'enseignement de l'art dramatique et du théâtre, Partir de soi exp…
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Das Altarwerk der Stadtkirche St. Reinoldi in DortmundChristliche Kunst als k…
Das Altarwerk in der Stadtkirche St. Reinoldi wurde um 1415 aus der seinerzeit bedeutenden Kunstmetropole Brügge im Kontext des Luxusgüter-Transfers der Hanse importiert. Es schmückt seither die städtische Hauptkirche in Dortmund. Das Retabel zählt zu den bedeutendsten Kunstwerken, die vom Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts im nördlichen Europa überliefert sind: Die außerordentliche Qualität …
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