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Thinking through Painting: Reflexivity and Agency beyond the Canvas

by Peter Geimer, Isabelle Graw, André Rottmann

Published: 2012-09-01

Paperback: 70 pages

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Painting appears to have dispelled its own once uncontested material basis. No longer synonymous with a flat picture plane hung on the wall, painting in its current incarnations tends instead to emphasize the apparatus of its appearance and the conduits of its circulation. Thinking  through Painting,...

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Studio Talks: Thinking Through Painting

by Kristina Bength, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Jan Rydén, Sigrid Sandström

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 418 pages

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Thinking Through Painting collects over 400 pages of commissioned texts andtranscribed conversations gathered during numerous artist studio visits on theuneasy relationship between painting and the contemporary institutional andtheoretical art scene. Initiated in 2009 following a discussio...

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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

Published: 2017-05-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispeci...

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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)

by Donna J. Haraway

Published: 2016-09-19

Paperback: 312 pages

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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as...

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How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

by Eduardo Kohn

Published: 2013-08-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human?and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Ru...

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The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Culture and Economic Life)

by Alison Gerber

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 192 pages

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Artists are everywhere, from celebrities showing at MoMA to locals hoping for a spot on a café wall. They are photographed at gallery openings in New York and Los Angeles, hustle in fast-gentrifying cities, and, sometimes, make quiet lives in Midwestern monasteries. Some command armies of...

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Where Art Belongs (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

by Chris Kraus

Published: 2011-01-21

Paperback: 176 pages

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Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation o...

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Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists

by Marina Warner

Published: 2018-10-23

Hardcover: 288 pages

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An anthology of enlightening writing by an award-winning critic that engages with art in its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new ant...

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You Are Here: Art After the Internet

by Sam Ashby, Basel Abbas, Ruanna Abu Rahme, Brad Troemel

Published: 2018-02-27

Paperback: 272 pages

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You Are Here: Art After the Internet is the first major publication to critically explore both the effects and affects that the Internet has had on contemporary artistic practices. Responding to an era that has increasingly chosen to dub itself as 'post-internet', this collective text traces a potted...

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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature

by Alva Noë

Published: 2016-09-27

Paperback: 304 pages

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A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselvesIn Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë argues that our obsession with works of art has gotten in the way of understanding how art works on us. Fo...