This cat-and-mouse story of a vast FBI sting operation reveals? how the criminal underworld has become a globalized economy in its own right--one that can't be policed without crossing complicated ethical boundaries.
The Bauhaus, founded in Germany in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in 1933, united artists, architects, and designers such as Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, and Vasily Kandinsky in a groundbreaking dialogue about art in the industrial age. The school aimed to redefine modern life through a remarkable range of visual arts experiments that have significantly influenced today's world. The accompanying publication, released for a major multimedia exhibition, marks The Museum of Modern Art's first comprehensive exploration of the subject since its notable 1938 exhibition. Organized in collaboration with Germany's key Bauhaus collections, it delves into the diverse outputs of the school, including industrial design, architecture, graphics, textiles, and more. Many featured objects have rarely been seen or published outside Germany. The book includes around 400 color plates and documentary images, along with two essays by curators Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman that offer fresh insights into the Bauhaus. Additionally, over 20 leading scholars contribute shorter essays on 30 significant Bauhaus objects, while an illustrated chronology provides a vibrant overview of the school's history.
A self-described "un-artist," Allan Kaprow championed an artistic practice that moved art out of the museum and into the everyday. His works insistently blurred the boundaries between art and life, requiring active participation rather than passive spectatorship, interactive collaborationrather than solitary creation.This richly illustrated volume documents five decades of Kaprow's life and work. Its six essays range across his shifts from painter to environmental artist to the inventor of the Happening and the Activity, while its extensive chronology features scores, letters, posters, photographs, andclippings, most drawn from the Allan Kaprow Papers held by the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Though the forms Kaprow largely invented have lost their shock value and were meant in most cases to be ephemeral, in fact they live on, captured in scores and other survivingdocumentation, still stretching the boundaries of art in the modern world.Allan Kaprow--Art as Life is being published to coincide with a retrospective of the artist's work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on view from March 23 through June 30, 2008.
Druhé a doplněné vydání na knižním trhu velmi úspěšné antologie překladů knižních a časopiseckých studií a esejů angloamerických autorů o proměnách interpretačního rámce výtvarného artefaktu a o distanci současných badatelů od klasického pojetí kunsthistorie. Studie C. Owense Reprezentace, přivlastnění a moc, W. Davise Symboly v dějinách a jejich znovuobjevování, D. Summerse Reálná metafora: pokus o novou definici konceptuálního zobrazení a dále studie autorů Podra, Baxandalla, Dunninga, Moxeye, Brysona, publikované v prvním vydání knihy, jsou v druhém vydání doplněny o texty Leo Steinberga Objektivita a mizející já, Richarda Brillianta Můj Laocoon, Jamese Elkinse Objekt civí zpět a Alexe Pottse Skulpturální imaginace. Překlady uvádí podstatně rozšířená a doplněná úvodní stať editora Ladislava Kesnera Teorie, vizuální zobrazení a dějiny umění.