In the late 1980s, the New York-based office Eisenman Architects, led by architect and educator Peter Eisenman, shifted from an investigation of "artificial excavations" as an architectural tool to a conscious pursuit of a concept he called "blurring." Blurring is not a visual effect but rather deals with affect, that is, a strategy for exploring ...
The term "installation" defining site-specific sculpture has in recent years established itself firmly as part of the vocabulary of contemporary visual arts. This issue of "Art & Design" demonstrates the variety of approaches undertaking by artists working in this medium. Installation is an art which grew out of the individual narratives presented ...
"The Lyotard Reader" is a collection of Jean-Francois Lyotard's most important papers to date. While they are all written from within philosophy, they seek to address subjects as wide-ranging as film, painting, psychoanalysis, Judaism and politics. The originality of Lyotard's work means that it cannot be readily situated within any one ...
Provides a broad and dedicated analysis of this canonical work and its effect upon core contemporary concerns in the visual arts, and the history of philosophy.
An exploration of how we may think philosophically about the present, this text draws upon philosophy, architecture and poetry. It argues that we must consider the crucial roles played by themes that fragment and complicate the present. Loss, memory, tragedy, hope and modernity are brought to bear in a discussion of what is meant by the present. ...
The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's thought is understood, as well as in the debate about the interplay between politics, history and time. Walter Benjamin and History is the first volume ...
This text outlines a philosophical account of architecture and attempts to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. The essays touch on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory, the work of Eisenman and the dystopias of science fiction.
This is a review of the laws in the state of Washington as they relate to the mental health profession. Issues include: setting up a private practice; working with health care provider organizations; and understanding the duty to report abuse and neglect of children and adults.
This text addresses the question of abstraction, one of the most significant and influential schools of criticism, by looking at three interconnected projects. The first argues that developments within abstraction have rendered the traditional theoretical and philosophical understandings of abstraction inadequate. The second develops the ...
In this text, complexity is linked to the affirmation of heterogeneity and to the possibility of complex beginnings. The book features the work of many philosophers, theorists, architects and artists, including Felix Guttari, Paul Virillio, Bernard Cache, Greg Lynn, Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Arakawa and Madeline Ginns, Bernard Tschumi, Bracha ...
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