Art and Theory - Böcker

BORO: Nödens konst handlar om idérikedom sprungen ur brist. Om spår av historia och minnen i lappade och lagade tyger. Den beskriver en japansk textilkultur där minsta tygbit togs till vara på och där kreationer av sparsamhet gick i arv, generatio...

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I början av 1960-talet skapade Ulla Wiggen en svit målningar föreställande elektroniska komponenter och datorer. Hon utforskade denna motivvärld då knappast någon kunde förutse hur den digitala teknologin skulle revolutionera våra dagliga liv. Kor...

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This book is about The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland (KREV). KREV was proclaimed in 1992 and consists of all Border Territories: Geographical, Mental & Digital . Elgaland-Vargaland is the largest and most populous realm on Earth, incorporating al...

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Curating Context describes a field where the curatorial practice is extended beyond curating exhibitions into working with entire contexts. It articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surroundin...

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Kristina Janssons målningar och verk omfattar ofta en arbetsprocess som hämtar inspiration från aktuella och historiska händelser, med referenser från olika medier och populärkultur. Jansson undersöker också olika typer av rum: privata, offentliga...

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What does it mean to remember through art? The anthology Public Memory, Public Art Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today presents 25 texts that explore and discuss memorial art in our common spaces. The anthology includes texts on monume...

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Contemporary Swedish Photography provides an overview of Sweden s photography scene, from the legendary Christer Strömholm to the wide range of photographers practicing today. The book covers the work of over 50 photographers, presented in alphabe...

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Denna rikt illustrerade publikation har utgivits i samband med den uppmärksammade konstnären Cecilia Edefalks omfattande separatutställning på Prins Eugens Waldemarsuddes hösten 2016. Utställningen, som är den första retrospektiven med Edefalks eg...

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Since their first work,¿Stateless Nation, at the Venice Biennial in 2003, and throughout their more recent architectural interventions in refugee camps, the artistic practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti has explored and acted within and ag...

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The earliest of the series presented in the book is Livingrooms. Helene Schmitz photographed her childhood home after a fire. It struck her how the familiar and well-known had been transformed into something else, for- eign and shocking in its con...

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¿ New Materialism was the title of a major group exhibition at Bonniers konsthall in 2018, which brought together thirteen artists who work with textiles, clay, wood, and ceramics, and whose work often involves an exploration of the production pro...

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Scenografi är ingen suverän konstart. Dess betydelse och gestaltningsförmåga uppstår i mötet med skådespelarna på scenen och dessförinnan i samarbetet med regissörer och övriga konstnärer. Däri ligger dess komplexitet som visuellt uttrycksmedel oc...

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I Separat har Dana Sederowsky skapat en karaktär som aktivt väljer bort samhället. En karaktär som vägrar behöva någon annan än sig själv. I en blandning av korta, lösryckta meningar, listor, protokoll, långa stycken och tomma sidutrymmen beskrivs...

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The notion and nature of play has puzzled and inspired thinkers over the course of history. Interpreted as excessive, illusive, and unproductive, play and imagination have over time permeated cultural spheres and now emerge from the 20th century a...

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The starting point for¿Ear to the Ground¿is a search for the spiritual and the physical in nature, and how these relationships are created and transformed. Ulrika Sparre s landscapes of rock survey the archipelago of Stockholm, the desert of Death...

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THE SHOPMODERN CONDITION BY LINDA RAMPELL Read me! I am not going to change your life, I am your life. You are now living in the shopmodern condition. Forget art history. Remember image shopping. The only ism after postmodernism is consumerism. Ae...

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In this book, Gábor Palotai displays a different take on the depictions of animals as figurative illustrations. Every animal is portrayed as an abstract art: sharply outlined in contrast with a mesmerizing pattern in light and dark. The effects of...

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Hur växer design fram? Hur arbetar formgivare och producenter? Nationalmuseums restaurang i Stockholm är ett nytt offentligt vardagsrum och en undersökande, taktil utställning av samtida design. Inredningen är resultatet av ett konstnärligt samarb...

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How do designs evolve? How do designers and producers work? Nationalmuseum's restaurant in Stockholm is a new public living room and an explorative, tactile exhibition of contemporary design. The interior is the result of an artistic collaboration...

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Patrik Karlström investigates the politics of representation and when he replaces art historical language with the language of economics there is a noticeable shift in meaning. Over the years, Karlström has consistently shown the viewer that no sh...

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The normative order and authoritarian use of conventional archives has long been criticized. This book explores the current digitally informed transformation and multiplication of archives with their increase in both accessibility and the amount o...

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When the subject of masterpieces is raised, most people think of old art in large museums, or of huge, crowded exhibitions displaying the work of famous masters. To contemporary artists, it seems, the masterpiece no longer has any meaning. It is d...

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Trinidad Carrillo's work exists in a wonderful, quasi-mystical moment, where the chasm between the past, the present and the future collapses, and life unexpectedly assumes a significance beyond the everyday. In No Date Carrillo continues to explo...

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Danish artist Michael Kvium s mode of expression is both fascinating and repellent. Against barren backgrounds, people are often presented as solitary and distorted in a critique of modern society and humanity. This book is published on the occasi...

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Shifts in sleeping habits go together with major changes in our ways of living. Today we are witnessing a corresponding temporal shift, in which the possibility of direct communication at any geographical distance shatters the 24-hour rhythm of th...

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Framing Bodies offers a unique insight into the disciplining, normative and identifying power of photography through the work of 15 artists. Photographic framings of the body inherently reflect issues of surveillance, the transgression of norms, l...

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Time and place have a central significance in Lennart Dureheds work, manifested in his titles which mostly refer to cities or neighbourhoods and years. He often utilises reflections to great effect, a sites surroundings mirrored by glossy facades ...

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The book will examine ways in which systems of power have used tactics of amnesic oblivion and silence as a political strategy. The project will look at work by artists who interfere with history-making by rescuing events and their protagonists fr...

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Powerful Babies brought together a diverse group of contemporary artists from across the United States and Northern Europe to celebrate Keith Harings legacy on the 25th anniversary of his death. The selection of artists for the 2015 exhibition at ...

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In the photographic series The Rectangle's Sharp Stare Källman has turned her gaze towards closed rooms such as prison cells, exploring the idea that they resemble a camera in the way that they subject light to control, only allowing it in under c...

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