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Public Knowledge - Selected Writings By Michael Asher

by Michael Asher

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 Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher—including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics—most published here for the first time.The California conceptual artist Michael Asher (1943-2012) was known for rigorous site specificity and pioneering institutional critique. His decades of teaching at CalArts influenced generations of artists. Much of Asher''s artistic practice was devoted to creating works that had no lasting material presence and often responded to the material, social, or ideological context of a situation. Because most of Asher''s artworks have ceased to exist, his writings about them have special significance. Public Knowledge collects writings by Asher about his work—including preliminary notes and ideas, project proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics—most of which have never been previously published. Asher gave few interviews, didn''t write art criticism, and rarely published extensive accounts of his own work. Yet writing was central to his artistic practice, serving as a tool for working out ideas, negotiating institutional parameters, and describing thought processes. In these texts, he considers writing and documentation, discusses artistic practice, offers notes for gallery and museum talks, presents artist statements for exhibition-goers, describes individual works and their situational context, and reflects on teaching and art education. Among other things, Asher provides his definition of site specificity, addresses the function of art in public space, and analyzes the intersection of teaching art and institutional models of education. Readers will see an artist at work, formulating ethical and political strategies for making art in a situational world.
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Ai Weiwei'S Blog - Writings, Interviews, And Digital Rants, 2006-2009

by Ai Weiwei

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 Manifestos and immodest proposals from China''s most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.In 2006, even though he could barely type, China''s most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government''s "tofu-dregs engineering"), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for "fraud" by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai''s notorious online writings translated into English—the most complete, public documentation of the original Chinese blog available in any language.The New York Times called Ai "a figure of Warholian celebrity." He is a leading figure on the international art scene, a regular in museums and biennials, but in China he is a manifold and controversial presence: artist, architect, curator, social critic, justice-seeker. He was a consultant on the design of the famous "Bird''s Nest" stadium but called for an Olympic boycott; he received a Chinese Contemporary Art "lifetime achievement award" in 2008 but was beaten by the police in connection with his "citizen investigation" of earthquake casualties in 2009. Ai Weiwei''s Blog documents Ai''s passion, his genius, his hubris, his righteous anger, and his vision for China.
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Remote Control - Power, Cultures, And The World Of Appearances

by Barbara Kruger

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 In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? Who is absent? These questions focus on how cultures are constructed through pictures and words, how we are seduced into a world of appearances: into a pose of who we are and aren''t. On both an emotional and an economic level, images and texts have the power to make us rich or poor. In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.
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Minor Histories - Statements, Conversations, Proposals

by Mike Kelley

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 The second volume of writings by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, focusing on his own work.
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Foul Perfection - Essays And Criticism

by Mike Kelley

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 This text offers a diverse collection of Mike Kelley's writings since the 1970s. It contains critical text on art, film and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic".
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Working Conditions - The Writings Of Hans Haacke

by Hans Haacke

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 Texts by Hans Haacke that range from straightforward descriptions of his artworks to wide-ranging reflections on the relationship between art and politics.Hans Haacke''s art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context—the economic, social, and political conditions of the art world and the world at large. Among his best-known works are MoMA-Poll (1970), which polled museumgoers on their opinions about Nelson Rockefeller and the Nixon administration''s Indochina policy; Gallery-Goers'' Birthplace and Residence Profile (1969), which canvassed visitors to the Howard Wise Gallery in Manhattan; and the famously canceled 1971 solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, which was meant to display, among other things, works on two New York real estate empires.This volume collects writings by Haacke that explain and document his practice. The texts, some of which have never before been published, run from straightforward descriptions to wide-ranging reflections and full-throated polemics. They include correspondence with MoMA and the Guggenheim and a letter refusing to represent the United States at the 1969 São Paulo Biennial; the title piece, "Working Conditions," which discusses corporate influence on the art world; Haacke''s thinking about "real-time social systems"; and texts written for museum catalogs on various artworks, including GERMANIA, in the German Pavilion of the 1993 Venice Biennial; DER BEVÖLKERUNG (To the Population) of 2000 at the Berlin Reichstag; Mixed Messages, an exhibition of objects from the Victoria and Albert Museum (2001); and Gift Horse, unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2015.
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On The Camera Arts And Consecutive Matters - The Writings Of Hollis Frampton

by Hollis Frampton

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 Offers a collection of Hollis Frampton's writings that presents his critical essays (many written for Artforum and October) along with additional material, including lectures, correspondence, interviews, and production notes and scripts. This title intends to replace the long-unavailable "Circles of Confusion", published in 1983.
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It Started With A Vegas Wedding / The Ceo And The Single Dad - It Started With A Vegas Wedding / The Ceo And The Single Dad

by Jessica Gilmore e Michele Renae

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 It Started with a Vegas Wedding by Jessica Gilmore Married in hasteâ€¦together for ever?
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Brought Together By A Pup / Winning The Neonatal Doc'S Heart - Brought Together By A Pup / Winning The Neonatal Doc'S Heart

by Amy Ruttan e Sue Mackay

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 Finding an unexpected futureâ€¦
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Tempted By The Rebel Surgeon / Breaking The Single Mum'S Rules - Tempted By The Rebel Surgeon (Gulf Harbour Er) / Breaking The Single Mum'S Rules (Gulf Harbour Er)

by Jc Harroway

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 A wild fling with her red-hot ex!
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Their Forever Family / Redeeming Her Hot-Shot Vet - Their Forever Family / Redeeming Her Hot-Shot Vet

by Caroline Anderson e Juliette Hyland

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 A second chance...a new family?
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Reasons For Knocking At An Empty House - Writings 1973-1994

by Bill (Bill Viola Studio) Viola

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Public Knowledge - Selected Writings By Michael Asher

by Michael Asher

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We Are In Open Circuits - Writings By Nam June Paik

by Nam June (Artist) Paik

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Hoosiers, Third Edition - The Fabulous Basketball Life Of Indiana

by Phillip M. Hoose

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Impossible Languages

by Andrea Moro

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 An investigation into the possibility of impossible languages, searching for the indelible "fingerprint" of human language.
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Working Conditions - The Writings Of Hans Haacke

by Hans Haacke

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Dissolve Into Comprehension - Writings And Interviews, 1964-2004

by Jack Burnham

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 Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham--a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism.
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On The Camera Arts And Consecutive Matters - The Writings Of Hollis Frampton

by Hollis Frampton

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Feelings Are Facts - A Life

by Yvonne Rainer

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Minor Histories - Statements, Conversations, Proposals

by Mike Kelley

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Essays On Art And Language

by Charles Harrison

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 Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement.
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Scarcity, Conflicts, And Cooperation - Essays In The Political And Institutional Economics Of Development

by Pranab (Univ Of California) Bardhan

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 An integrative and reflective account of some of the major topical issues in development economics, focusing on institutional failures, weak accountability mechanisms, and missed opportunities for cooperative problem-solving in poor countries.
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America'S Environmental Report Card - Are We Making The Grade?

by Harvey (Institute Of Earth Sciences) Blatt

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 A timely survey of the state of America's environment: how we can take action to achieve a sustainable future.
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