Icons in Ash

Icons in Ash
Author: Heide Hatry
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581771619

The art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object - the icon - often carried a charge as ritual or ceremonial artifact and, indeed, as a thing with a certain power. The artist Heide Hatry has extended this tradition by creating realistic portraits made out of the actual ashes of the departed person portrayed. Are the results reminiscent of ancient sacred and secular traditions and their complex, even mysterious function to, say, calm, enrich or transform our experience? Icons in Ash includes twenty of Hatry's portraits and twenty-seven contemporary writers who explore this phenomenon in original and engaging meditations on death, the dead body, art, relics, psychology, philosophy, religion, mourning, evolution, transformation, and immortality. Contributors include, among others, Hans Belting, Mark Dery, Eleanor Heartney, Siri Hustvedt, Jonas Mekas, Rick Moody, Mark Pachter, Steven Pinker, Wolf Singer, Luisa Valenzuela, and Peter Weibel. Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USJAX-NONE

Heide Hatry

Heide Hatry
Author: Heide Hatry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788881587063

Foreword by Catharine MacKinnon.

Sapeurs

Sapeurs
Author: Tariq Zaidi
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9783868289732

British photographer Tariq Zaidi presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa & Brazzaville: La Sape, Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes. Its followers are known as 'Sapeurs' ('Sapeuses' for women). Most have ordinary day jobs as taxi-drivers, tailors and gardeners, but as soon as they clock off they transform themselves into debonair dandies. Sashaying through the streets they are treated like rock stars - turning heads, bringing 'joie de vivre' to their communities and defying their circumstances.

The Cultures of Entanglement

The Cultures of Entanglement
Author: Suzanne Anker
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2024-03-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3839468051

The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance to religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic discourses have been seeking access to the world independently of man by focusing on the nonhuman other. The contributors to this volume examine the historical, philosophical and scientific findings that generate this idea. In what way are such perspectives manifest in contemporary art? Do artists develop a particular approach that enables nonhuman life forms like plants, insects or animals to have an impact?

Dogeaters

Dogeaters
Author: Jessica Hagedorn
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480440205

Finalist for the National Book Award and a 2015 Wall Street Journal Book Club selection: An intense portrait of the Philippines in the late 1950s. Dogeaters follows a diverse set of characters through Manila, each exemplifying the country’s sharp distinctions between social classes. Celebrated novelist and playwright Jessica Hagedorn effortlessly shifts from the capital’s elite to the poorest of the poor. From the country’s president and first lady to an idealist reformer, from actors and radio DJs to prostitutes, seemingly unrelated lives become intertwined.

Carolee's

Carolee's
Author: Jenny Jaskey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780997099522

Carolee's is the second issue of The Magazine of the Artist's Institute. Dedicated to Carolee Schneemann, it features a previously unpublished image archive from Schneemann's studio that documents half a century of morphological connections between her work and other visual material, including art, advertising, and popular culture. A new long-form pro'le of Schneemann by writer Maggie Nelson accompanies this project and considers the artist's relationship to the history of her reception and Schneemann's signi'cant in'uence on subsequent generations of feminists

The Hereditary Estate

The Hereditary Estate
Author: Daniel W. Coburn
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Families
ISBN: 9783868285376

The Hereditary Estate functions as a ten-year retrospective and as a conceptual work of art in its own right. Coburn's work investigates the medium of the family photo album. Frustrated by the lack of images that document the true and sometimes troubling nature of his own familial history, the photographer set out to create a new archive, a potent reminder of the falsity of most family photo albums. Using photographs taken over the last decade and altered Coburn creates a family narrative that is simultaneously beautiful and terrifying.

The Estrangement Principle

The Estrangement Principle
Author: Ariel Goldberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781937658519

A book-length essay that travels through the limits and landscapes of categorization in recent histories of literature and art

Artic Heroes

Artic Heroes
Author: Ragnar Axelsson
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9783969000076

The Greenland Dog is one of the greatest heroes of the Arctic, but his fate is uncertain.