Dennis Adams

Dennis Adams
Author: Dennis Adams
Publisher: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Artwork by Dennis Adams. Contributions by Peter Doroshenko.

Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović
Author: Marina Abramović
Publisher: Hansjorg Mayer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9780905836881

"Marina Abramovic (born 1946) is one of the foremost contemporary performance artists. She has used her body and personal history both as a social metaphor and as a material for her work. This publication examines the whole range of her large production to date and establishes the common ground between her installations, videos, performances and objects. A series of articles written by leading art critics and specialists discuss the earliest paintings, sound installations and performances made in Yugoslavia during the 1960s and early 1970s; the years of collaborative performances with Ulay (1976-88); the videos, made both collaboratively and singly throughout her career; the so-called transitional objects which demand the participation of the viewer in order for them to be activated (1988-); the new, baroque and violently "theatrical" meta-performances Biography (1992) and Delusional (1994) and, most recently, the power objects, which indicate a new departure."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Ant Farm 1968-1978

Ant Farm 1968-1978
Author: Constance Lewallen
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520240294

This richly illustrated book, created to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating critical overview of Ant Farm, the radical architecture collective that brought us Cadillac Ranch, Media Burn, and The Eternal Frame. Established by several young renegade architects in 1968, Ant Farm was a collaborative art and design group eager to bring to its practice a revolutionary spirit more consistent with the times. Its vision encompassed creations for a nomadic lifestyle, including inflatable structures and radical environments that culminated in projects such as the organically appointed House of the Century and the unrealized aquatic edifice The Dolphin Embassy. Ant Farm 1968-1978 explores the sweeping career of this inspired and inspiring visionary collective as its architectural projects broadened to embrace a range of undertakings that challenged the visual architecture of image, icon, and power. Constance Lewallen provides an in-depth, anecdotally rich interview with founding members Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Curtis Schreier. An essay by Michael Sorkin gives the multivalent cultural context for Ant Farm's radical architecture. Steve Seid takes a comprehensive look at Ant Farm's influential videotapes. Caroline Maniaque's "Searching for Energy" details the group's inflatable structures in relationship to contemporaneous architects working in a similar vein. The catalog also includes a substantial excerpt from Chip Lord's 1976 meditation on car culture, with a new epilogue; a graphically playful timeline recounting Ant Farm's essential art projects; and a rich montage of images and ephemera capturing the humor, originality, and prescience of this feisty enterprise. A joint publication with the Berkeley Art Museum

Josef Albers

Josef Albers
Author: Josef Albers
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1988
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Press kit consists of press release, dated March 24, 1988 (4 leaves), and three photo sheets of works by Albers.

Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs
Author: Michèle Thériault
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2000
Genre: Installations (Art)
ISBN:

"Based on a multimedia installation by Francis Alys, The Last Clown, tells the story of an unplanned meeting between a stroller and dog. While exploring randomness, Francis Alys reflects on the role of laughter and trickery in the creative process as well as on the multiple territories occupied by the artist. His work is at once enigmatic and ironic, grave and light. By way of the several forms in the artistic process, he also explores the role of the artist, and looks at the parameters that could define an artistic practice of today. Essay by Michele Theriault."

What We Bought-- the New World

What We Bought-- the New World
Author: Robert Adams
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2009
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

Explores the developing landscape of Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. This work contains photographs that show tract housing with mountain ranges in the distance, trailer lots devoid of people, suburban streets through generic windows, shopping mall interiors and parking lots.