Blasted Allegories
Title | Blasted Allegories PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Wallis |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Art |
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Blasted Allegories is the first comprehensive collection of writing by contemporary artists, making available the best and most representative examples from the past ten years, an era marked by such pluralism and eclecticism that the voice of the artist may be the clearest one to listen to.
Blasted Allegories
Title | Blasted Allegories PDF eBook |
Author | Beatrix Ruf |
Publisher | Jrp Ringier |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 9783905829402 |
One of the most important contemporary art collections in Switzerland, the Ringier Collection is presented here through a selection of more than 400 works from artists ranging from John Baldessari (from whom the title of this book has been borrowed), Richard Prince, and Fischli / Weiss, to Urs Fischer, Rodney Graham, Karen Kilimnik, and Trisha Donnelly. Organised as a visual essay rather than an exhaustive account of the last two decades, the publication attempts to map the contemporary art scene by following alternative as well as mainstream currents. Edited by Beatrix Ruf, Director of Kunsthalle Zürich and Curator of the Collection, the book gathers together statements on different topics particularly relevant to understanding the present contexts of a scene whose main debates are often overshadowed by its globalised and market-driven aspects. English and German text.
New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales
Title | New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Millicent Bell |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1993-09-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521428682 |
This book examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories.
Blasted Allegories
Title | Blasted Allegories PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Photograph collections |
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John Baldessari's Later Blasted Allegories
Title | John Baldessari's Later Blasted Allegories PDF eBook |
Author | Heather McGuire |
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Pages | |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Allegory |
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John Baldessari's Blasted Allegories (1977-1978) represent a concerted reconsideration of the most active and critical pursuits of the 1960s and '70s, including structuralism, post-structuralism, systems-based art, constraint-based approaches to composition, chance, and allegory. Thirty-five of the sixty-some Blasted Allegories are designated here as "later" works in the series because they share formal and structural characteristics; they present arrangements of colored photographs on neutral matte board. Although the later Blasted Allegories initially appear as colorful sentences, the close readings undertaken in this dissertation reveal that these pieces have been generated by the imposition of individual sets of constraints on a combinatorial system. In addition, many of these works appropriate structural models from cultural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, narratologist A.J. Greimas, and grammarian Noam Chomsky; even though they subsume the rules implied by these structural models, they undergo a post-structural critique wherein fixed relationships are destabilized by word play, homophones, rhyme, and the imposition of such additional operations as algorithms. This dissertation demonstrates how Baldessari solicits art as an experience of cognitive construction, pleasure, and protracted play with the possibilities of meaning. His crypto-narratives take readers along the cognitive spiral theorized by psychologist Jean Piaget that begin with sensory perceptions, expand into operational understandings of these works as products of a combinatory system, and can be built into logical and mathematical apprehensions of the resultant texts. Like many of the embedded models, Piaget's spiral is counterbalanced in this series by the conflation of vying cultural models into a cacophony of signification. Baldessari's texts play with readers' proclivities to search for meaning. The artist solicits protracted interactions from viewer/readers, who are able to discern multiple, simultaneous readings and thus relinquish an ensconced approach toward art as a synthesis of embedded cultural models. Baldessari's series engages conceptions of allegory as a procedure, a condition of the text, and a hedge against reductive, overarching interpretations. Working in a Duchampian vein, Baldessari posits the components of new syntaxes for art that return readers to these pieces, where variable interactions between readers and these heteroglossic texts ressemble open systems that can unsettle artist-imposed significations.
Robert Smithson and the American Landscape
Title | Robert Smithson and the American Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Graziani |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2004-04-05 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780521827553 |
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Photography between Poetry and Politics
Title | Photography between Poetry and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Hilde van Gelder |
Publisher | Leuven University Press |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9058676641 |
Lieven Gevaert Series 7Does photography have a hybrid or chameleonic character because it can be part of entirely different mixed-media works of art? Photography as a medium is faced with the challenge of escaping from its too-frequent use as rather noncommittal and "poetic" visual imagery. How best might photographers proceed to maintain the integrity of their art? A distinguished group of art historians, art theorists, and specialists in contemporary photography address these issues in Photography between Poetry and Politics. They suggest that by raising a critical debate on the internal workings of the artistic system itself or on broader social problems, photographers might be able to transcend both political and aesthetic concerns, and so revitalize their art form and regain its autonomy.