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Book DescriptionIf there is no eighth day in the biblical account of things, perhaps it's time to add another, now that we have the means. The transgenic art of Eduardo Kac does just that, raising often unanswerable questions about ethics, evolution, biogenetics, and animals' rights, to name but a few of the areas from which his work has raised controversy. At the dawn of the 21st century, Kac shocked the world, first with a groundbreaking net installation entitled Genesis, and then with Alba, hisfluorescent, genetically engineered rabbit. From his first experiments online in the mid-1980s to his current convergence of the digital and the biological, in the Eighth Day installation Kac has always investigated the philosophical and political dimensions of communication processes. Equally concerned with the aesthetic and the social aspects of verbal and nonverbal interaction, Kac has examined linguistic systems, dialogic exchanges, and interspecies communication, combining robotics and...

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Book DescriptionThis volume of 12 essays fills a broad gap in modernist art history. Taken together, these case studies on artists and concepts present Dada as a coherent movement with a set of operating principles. Among the " tactics" elaborated are the hyperbolic mimicry of dominant social and linguistic conventions, the performance of gender and other aspects of identity, the usurpation of the modes of a new media culture and the marketplace, and the recycling of history and memory in a world traumatized by war. The Dada Seminars developed out of a series held by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, in advance of a major traveling exhibition of international Dada that will open in 2005. Contributors include George Baker, T.J. Demos, Leah Dickerman, Uwe Fleckner, Hal Foster, Amelia Jones, David Joselit, Marcella Lista, Helen Molesworth, Arnauld Pierre, Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew S. Witkovsky. Introduction by Leah Dickerman. ...

Priya Hemenway

The Golden Section, also known as the Divine Proportion or ф, can be observed in plant seed patterns as well as in the pyramids, in Gothic cathedrals and in the human body, to mention just a few phenomena from an infinite series. This book presents not only the multifaceted forms of the Golden Section in nature, art, architecture, music and science, but also variations, such as the Golden Spirals in the human inner ear. With more than 300 illustrations and graphs it explores the exciting issue of the laws of the universe and the concealed "divine plan" that is revealed within it. Формат: 19,5 см x 21,5 см.

Barry Moser, Ann Patchett

Portraits have long been a staple of Moser's oeuvre, beginning with his first book, The Red Rag, published by Castalia Press in 1970, which included a frontispiece portrait of the American painter (and author of The Red Rag), James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Nearly thirty years later he published his edition of the King James Bible, in which over half of the images were portraits. In this gathering are many of Moser's old portraits and more than fifty new ones created especially for this collection, including Charles Dickens, Daniel Webster, Stephen Crane, Dante Alighieri, Frederic Chopin, Nelson Algren, Jean Cocteau, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rembrandt van Rijn, Ben Shahn, Jim Harrison, Flannery O'Conner, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Eric Carle, Kaye Gibbons, Virginia Hamilton, Nancy Willard, Patricia MacLachlan, Jack Coughlin, Jane Yolen, Joyce Carol Oates, and many others. Ann Patchett, the...

Claus Brusen

Catalogue for a big exhibition of Magic realism and Gothic Art curated by Claus Brusen in Cooperation with Strychnin Gallery held at FANTASMUS in Denmark. Well over 60 images in full colour and a few in Black and White from some 46 artists from around the world, such as David Stoupakis, Patrick Woodroffe, Mark Wilkinson, David Bowers, Steven Kenny and Richard Kirk, just to mention a few. A fine little catalogue with some of the best artists in Fantasy and Gothic Art.

Dietmar Elger

Book DescriptionThe German artistic revolution known as expressionism is the subject of this large-format, sumptuously illustrated Spanish-language entry in the Big Art series. The colorful survey samples all of the variations on the movement, from the Brucke Group to the Viennese school, and showcases its greatest artists, including Marc, Kandinsky, Kirchner, and Nolde.

Andrew Webber

Chapters: Fountain, an Oak Tree, Ann Dancing, Bottle Rack, Tilted Arc, Universal Man. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Fountain is a 1917 work by Marcel Duchamp. It is one of the pieces which he called readymades (also known as found art), because he made use of an already existing objectin this case a urinal, which he titled Fountain and signed "R. Mutt". The art show to which Duchamp submitted the piece stated that all works would be accepted, but Fountain was not actually displayed, and the original has been lost. The work is regarded by some as a major landmark in 20th century art. Replicas commissioned by Duchamp in the 1960s are now on display in museums. Marcel Duchamp arrived in the United States less than two years prior to the creation of Fountain, and had become involved with Dada, an...

Susie Kalil

Presenting the unique vision of an American original . . . Alexandre Hogue, a renowned artist whose career spanned from the 1920s to his death in 1994, inherited the view of an America that imagined itself as filled with limitless potential for improvement, that considered high art and great ideas accessible to ordinary working people, and that saw no reason for an intellectual chasm between a learned elite and the masses. He always viewed himself as a radical, yet his passion stemmed from a deeply conservative idea: that art, culture, and nature should form a central force in the life of every human being. His well-known Dust Bowl series labeled him as a regionalist painter, but Hogue never accepted that identity. His work reveals the spirit of Texas and the Southwest as he experienced it for nearly a century. In his later years Hogue worked in forms of crisply rendered nonobjective and calligraphic one-liner paintings. Bringing to light new information regarding the...