This new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity ...
Artwork by Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Dan Graham, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Jason Rhoades, Robert Smithson, Cy Twombly, Lawrence Weiner, Dan Flavin, Hans Haacke, Edward Kienholz. Text by Boris Groys, Petra Kipphoff.
The Berlin Wall was coming down, the Soviet Union was dissolving, Communist China was well on its way down the capitalist path. Artists, seeing it all first-hand, responded with a revolution of their own. What form this revolution took emerges in this volume.
This new survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As the internet mindset browsing, sharing, collecting, producing increasingly permeates every aspect of society, this timely project reveals the ways in which artists and viewers ...
In July 2000 Ilya Kabakov was visiting professor at the Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva at the Ratti Foundation in Como. Together with his wife Emilia he offered the students his ideas on total installations, their poetry and meanings. This volume documents the students' end-of-course exhibition as well as Kabakov's public space installation, and ...
Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and ...
In this album, Ilya Kabakov takes up the position of a fictive artist who has become conscious of the shortcomings of people's everyday ability to see and recognize normalcy. Artists, especially those of the Russian avant-garde, have always, by means of art, attempted to appropriate divine (in)sight, to effect a simultaneous perception of all ...
As communism collapses into ruins, Boris Groys examines the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' demands that art should move from depicting to transforming the world. The ...
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