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From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art
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Call Number: N6512.5.I56 R45 1999ISBN: 0262181967Publication Date: 1999 -
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Installation art as experience of self, in space and time [PDF]
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Installation art has modified our relationship to art for over fifty years by soliciting the whole body, demonstrating its sensitivity to space, surroundings, and the living beings with which it is constantly interacting. This book analyses this modification of perception through phenomenological approaches convoking Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, as well as Levinas, Depraz, and the neuroscientist Varela. This theoretical framework is implicit in the various case studies which revisit works that have become classic or emblematic by Carl Andre, Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham; inaugural experiments that remain available only through photographic and written archives by Jean-Michel Sanejouand, Philippe Parreno, as well as the influence of the mode in the realm of music. The book also examines the transference of this Western form to Asia, revealing how it resonates with ancient Asian representations and practices-often associated with the spiritual.The distinct chapters underpin the role of space as a metaframe, the common ground of the various installations. While the nature and agency of space varies-from social, historical space, leisurely or political space, inner psychological space, to shared empty space-these installations reveal the chiasm between the individual body and the outside space. The chapters bear testimony of the process in which the physical journey of the spectator's body within a material-at times invisible-space and its structural components takes place in time, as a succession of micro-experiences.'Installation art as experience of self, in space and time' adds to the existing literature of art history a level of theoretical, experiential and transcultural analysis that will make this inquiry relevant to both university students and independent researchers in the academic fields of philosophy, psychology, aesthetics, art theory and history, religious and Asian studies.
Call Number: ebookISBN: 1648892760Publication Date: 2021 -
Installation Art in the New Millennium
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Following Installation Art by the same authors, this is a useful guide to navigating and understanding developments in this increasingly mainstream form of contemporary art. Arranged in themed sections with a chronology, the book offers a vast visual source of works from all over the world.
Call Number: N6494.I56 D4 2004ISBN: 0500284512Publication Date: 2004 -
One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
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Call Number: N6490 .K93 2004ISBN: 026261202XPublication Date: 2004 -
The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums
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Site-specific installations are created for specific locations and are usually intended as temporary artworks. The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums: Staging Contemporary Art shows that these artworks consist of more than a singular manifestation and that their lifespan is often extended. In this book, Tatja Scholte offers an in-depth account of the artistic production of the last forty years. With a wealth of case studies the author illuminates the diversity of site-specific art in both form and content, as well as in the conservation strategies applied. A conceptual framework is provided for scholars and museum professionals to better understand how site-specific installations gain new meanings during successive stages of their biographies and may become agents for change in professional routines.
Call Number: ebookISBN: 9789048554546Publication Date: 2021 -
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
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Call Number: N6537.I64 W4 1982ISBN: 0520256093Publication Date: 1982 -
Understanding Installation Art from Duchamp to Holzer
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Call Number: N6494.I56 R67 2003ISBN: 3791329847Publication Date: 2003 -
Unexpected Art: serendipitous installations, site-specific works, and surprising interventions
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Graffiti made from cake icing, man-made clouds floating indoors, a luminous moon resting on water. Collected here are dozens of jaw-dropping artworks--site-specific installations, extraordinary sculptures, and groundbreaking interventions in public spaces--that reveal the exciting things that happen when contemporary artists play with the idea of place. Unexpected Art showcases the wonderfully experimental work of more than 50 innovative artists from around the world in galleries of their most astonishing artworks. An unusual package with three different-colored page edges complements the art inside and makes this tour of the world's most mind-blowing artwork a beautiful and thoughtprovoking gift for anyone interested in the next cool thing.
Call Number: N6494.I56 U54 2015ISBN: 9781452135489Publication Date: 2015 -
Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation
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Call Number: NB198.6 .V58 2009ISBN: 071484974XPublication Date: 2009
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The Arts at Black Mountain College
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Call Number: N330.N67 B55ISBN: 026208161XPublication Date: 1987 -
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The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations
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This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media artists, who create, and tactically deploy, digital interfaces in their work in order to question the socio-cultural stakes of a technology that shapes and reshapes relationships between humans and non-humans. In this way, it shows how use of the digital interface provides us with a critical framework for understanding our relationship with technology.
Call Number: NX456.5.N49 S53 2021ISBN: 9781138605879Publication Date: 2021 -
Electric Dreams
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Tate Modern exhibition: 28 November 2024 - 1 June 2025 Discover how artists used machines and algorithms to create mesmerising and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the early 1990s. From collaged punch cards to early experiments with virtual reality, artists have found inspiration in technology to invent new forms and new ways to engage the senses. Bringing together works by groundbreaking artists from across Asia, Europe and the Americas, Electric Dreams celebrates the innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who imagined the visual languages of the future through immersive, responsive and automatically generated works. Their circuits of connections and creativity, of new thinking and tinkering are illuminated here through the perspectives of artists, curators and art historians. Hundreds of illustrations of intriguing and often stunningly beautiful artworks are accompanied by newly researched archival images, casting fresh light on this extraordinary period. From Rebecca Allen to Edward Zajec, from Katsuhiro Yamaguchi to Suzanne Treister, these artists were unafraid to push boundaries. They redefined what art can be, channelling how electronics and computation radically transformed everyday life before the dawn of the internet age.
Call Number: N7433.8 .E44 2024ISBN: 9781849769242Publication Date: 2025 -
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Gallery Sound
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Sound is an integral part of contemporary art. Once understood to be a marginal practice, increasingly we encounter sound in art exhibitions through an array of sound making works in various art forms, at times played to very high audio levels. However, works of art are far from the only thing one might hear: music performances, floor talks, exhibition openings and the noisy background sounds that emanate from the gallery café fill contemporary exhibition environments. Far from being hallowed spaces of quiet reflection, what this means is that galleries have swiftly become very noisy places. As such, a straightforward consideration of artworks alone can then no longer account for our experiences of art galleries and museums. To date there has been minimal scholarship directed towards the intricacies of our experiences of sound that occur within the bounds of this purportedly 'visual' art space. Kelly addresses this gap in knowledge through the examination of historical and contemporary sound in gallery environments, broadening our understanding of artists who work with sound, the institutions that exhibit these works, and the audiences that visit them. Gallery Sound argues for the importance of all of the sounds to be heard within the walls of art spaces, and in doing so listens not only to the deliberate inclusion of sound within the art gallery in the form of artworks, performances, and music, but also to its incidental sounds, such as their ambient sounds and the noise generated by audiences. More than this, however, Gallery Sound turns its attention to the ways in which the acoustic characteristics specific to gallery spaces have been mined by artists for creative outputs, ushering in entirely new art forms.
Call Number: ebookISBN: 1501304399Publication Date: 2017 -
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Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
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Call Number: N72.T4 S44 2006ISBN: 0262101173Publication Date: 2006 -
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Visual Music: Synesthesia in Art and Music since 1900
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Call Number: NX456 .V57 2005ISBN: 0500512175Publication Date: 2005
Suggested Materials on Various Artists
Marcel Duchamp
Duchamp & co. Pierre Cabanne. Paris : Terrail, c1997.
The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 by Calvin Tomkins and the editors of Time-Life Books.
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi, spaceof akari & stone. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1986.
Isamu Noguchi text by Sam Hunter. New York : Abbeville Press, [1978]
A sculptor's world Isamu Noguchi ; foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. Gottingen : Steidl, 2004.
Joseph Beuys
Arena : where would I have got if I had been intelligent! edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. New York : Dia Center for the Arts, c1994.
The essential Joseph Beuys - Alain Borer ; edited by Lothar Schirmer.
Robert Irwin
Artist talk on YouTube.
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thingone sees : a life of contemporary artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1982.
Robert Irwin exhibition organized by Richard Koshalek and Kerry Brougher. Los Angeles, Calif. : Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; New York : Rizzoli, c1993.
James Turrell
James Turrell : Geometrie des Lichts =James Turrell : geometry of light edited by Ursula Sinnreich, Kulturbetriebe Unna. Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, c2009.
James Turrell : light & space an exhibition organized by Barbara Haskell. New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, c1980.
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson : in real life. London : Tate Publishing, 2019.
Olafur Eliasson : your lighthouse : works with light 1991-2004. Ostfilden-Ruit : Hatje Cantz Verlag, c2004.
Andy Goldsworthy
Rivers and tides [DVD] : Andy Goldsworthy working with time: a film by Thomas Riedelsheimer. c2006.
Wood / Andy Goldsworthy ; introduction by Terry Friedman. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Andy Goldsworthy : a collaboration withnature. New York : Abrams, 1990.
Hand to earth : Andy Goldsworthy sculpture, 1976-1990 / [edited by Terry Friedman andAndy Goldsworthy]. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1993.
Studio visit - youTube video by Tate Modern
Wolfgang Laib
Wolfgang Laib : somewhere else. Ostfildern : Cantz, c1999.
Wolfgang Laib : a retrospective / Klaus Ottmann, with an essay by Margit Rowell, and a conversation between the artist and Harald Szeemann. New York : American Federation of Arts and Hatje Cantz, 2000.
Wolfgang Laib: Returning to What Is. An Interview with Wolfgang Laib.
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton by Joan Simon. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
Ann Hamilton : an inventory of objects Joan Simon. New York : Gregory R. Miller & Co., c2006.
Diana Thater
Diana Thater - the artist's museum - on Vimeo from MOCA
Diana Thater : between science and magic. [Santa Monica] : Santa Monica Museum of Art : Distributed by r.a.m. publications + distributions, 2010.
Cai Gui Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang: Dana Friis-Hansen, Octavio Zaya, Serizawa Takashi. London ; New York, NY : Phaidon, 2002.
Cai Guo-Qiang : I want to believe: Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe. New York : Guggenheim Museum : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], 2008.
Cai Guo-Qiang: Mystery Circle - on Vimeo from MOCA
John Cage
Silence; lectures and writings, by John Cage. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press 1973.
John Cage / edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Praeger, c1970.
Meredith Monk
Ellis Island and Book of days on DVD conceived and directed by Meredith Monk.
Book of Days, excerpt on YouTube
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective : Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson ; with essays by Trisha Brown ... [et al.]. New York : Guggenheim Museum, c1999.
Off the wall : Robert Rauschenberg and the art world of our time : Calvin Tomkins. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1980.
Robert Rauschenberg on the Art Story
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson's vision : an exhibition of works by Robert Wilson with a sound environment by Hans Peter Kuhn : Trevor Fairbrother. Boston : Museum of Fine Arts ; New York : H.N. Abrams, 1991.
Robert Wilson, the theater of images : The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, The Byrd Hoffman Foundation, New York. New York : Harper, c1984.
Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff : a survey of works including collaborations with George Bures Miller : Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Long Island City, NY : P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center ; New York : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Arts Publishers, [2001?]
Gordon Matta Clark
Gordon Matta Clark : you are the measure edited by Elisabeth Sussman. New York : Whitney Museum of American Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Gordon Matta-Clark : works and collected writings: Gloria Moure. Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, c2006.
Gordon Matta-Clark exhibit walk-through with Jane Crawford on Vimeo by Howard Silver
Christian Marclay
Christian Marclay : Jennifer Gonzalez, Kim Gordon, Matthew Higgs. London ; New York :Phaidon, c2005.
Link to The Clock youtube links....
The Clock - installation on YouTube
Christian Marclay - a mini-documentary
Damian Ortega
Do it yourself: Damian Ortega. New York, N.Y. : Skira Rizzoli ; Boston, Mass. : Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2009.
On Damian Ortega on Artcube
Damián Ortega talks about his work Volcano on Youtube by Star-telegram
Bill Viola
Bill Viola : curated by David A.Ross and Peter Sellars ; with contributions by Lewis Hyde ... [et al.]. New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Flammarion, Paris-New York, 1997.
Reasons for knocking at an empty house : writings 1973-1994: Bill Viola ; edited by Robert Violette in collaboration with the author ; introduction by Jean-Christophe Ammann. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; London : Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1995.
Bill Viola videorecording : selected works [DVD] : [all works conceived and produced byBillViola]. Los Angeles, CA : Voyager Press, c1986.
Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear : by Neal Benezra ; with an essay by Robert Storr. New York : Thamesand Hudson ; Chicago : The Art Institute, c1991.
Martin Puryear : John Elderfield ... [et al.]. New York : Museum of Modern Art, c2007.
Pipilotti Rist
Die farbe deiner Socken] : ein jahr mit Pipilotti Rist = The color of your socks : a year with Pipilotti Rist. [DVD] San Francisco, CA : Microcinema International, c2011.
Pipilotti Rist / Peggy Phelan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elisabeth Bronfen. London ; New York : Phaidon, 2001.
Pipilotti Rist - Ever is Over All on YouTube
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman / Coosje van Bruggen. New York : Rizzoli, 1988.
Bruce Nauman : topological gardens / Carlos Basualdo and Michael R. Taylor. Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Theaster Gates
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Theaster Gates: Black Chapel
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Dimona Stockle, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., Hamza Walker, Theaster Gates
Call Number: N6538.G377 A4 2021ISBN: 9783960988540Publication Date: 2021 -
Theaster Gates
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The first monograph of Chicago-based Theaster Gates, one of the most exciting and highly regarded contemporary artists at work today. Theaster Gates has developed an expanded artistic practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions. Gates's training as an urban planner and sculptor, and subsequent time spent studying clay, has given him keen awareness of the poetics of production and systems of organizing. Playing with these poetic and systematic interests, Gates has assembled gospel choirs, formed temporary unions, and used systems of mass production as a way of underscoring the need that industry has for the body. Gates refers to his working method as 'critique through collaboration' and his projects often stretch the form of what we usually understand visual art to be. His focus is also on the availability of information and the cross-fertilization of ideas. His multi-faceted exhibitions investigate themes of race and history through sculpture, installation, performance and two-dimensional works, furthering the artist's interest in a critique of social practice, shared economies and the question of objects in relation to political and cultural thought. Gates' recent exhibition and performance venues include the Seattle Art Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, Milwaukee Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Whitney Biennial in New York. Gates was a participating artist in Documenta 13 in Kassel (2012) with his total-living installation 12 Ballads for Huguenot House. Other notable solo exhibitions include An Epitaph for Civil Rights at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) and My Labor Is My Protest, at White Cube Bermondsey, London (2012). Parallel to his artist career, Gates is also Director of Arts and Public Life Initiative at the University of Chicago and a board member of the city's South Side Community Center. Recently commissioned as the 2012 Armory Show Artist and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2011, Gates has received awards and grants from Creative Capital, the Joyce Foundation, Graham Foundation, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.
Call Number: N6537.G3778 A4 2015ISBN: 9780714868806Publication Date: 2015 -
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Urban Projects
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Iconic images from 50 years of transforming cities Christo (born 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009) have always compared their work to that of urban planners. And it is true that the projects they have carried out around the world since the 1960s not only have huge dimensions but are also at the center of public debates and disputes. The very fact that their projects are subject to approval by local authorities makes them sometimes resemble public construction projects more than works of art. For the first time, this book gives a comprehensive account of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's urban projects. It presents preparatory drawings, collages and models for many little-known works from the artists' early career, some of which were never carried out, such as the planned wrapping of several New York City skyscrapers, as well as the spectacular large-scale projects of later years, such as the wrapping of the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris in 1985, the wrapping of the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1995 and the 2005 installation The Gates in New York's Central Park. In two detailed essays, the authors of the book explore Christo's extraordinary talent for drawing and investigate the artists' ambivalent perspective on urban space, which oscillates between a powerful critique of the city's impersonal modernism and a tribute to the liberal, democratic use of urban areas.
Call Number: N7193.C5 A4 2017ISBN: 9781942884255Publication Date: 2018 -
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