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Abstraction in Reverse

The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art

By: Alexander Alberro

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Abstraction in Reverse

The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art

By: Alexander Alberro

Introduction: spectatorship after abstract art -- Concrete art, and invention -- Time-objects -- Subjective instability -- The instituting subject -- Conclusion

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University of Chicago Press

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022639395X

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9780226393957

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

By: Alexander Alberro

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Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

By: Alexander Alberro

An examination of the origins and legacy of the conceptual art movement.

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MIT Press

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0262511843

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Abstraction in Reverse

The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art

By: Alexander Alberro

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Abstraction in Reverse

The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art

By: Alexander Alberro

Introduction: spectatorship after abstract art -- Concrete art, and invention -- Time-objects -- Subjective instability -- The instituting subject -- Conclusion

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Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

By: Alexander Alberro

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Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

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An examination of the origins and legacy of the conceptual art movement.

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Robert Smithson

By: Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art

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Robert Smithson

By: Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art

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Univ of California Press

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0520244095

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9780520244092

Work Ethic

By: Helen Anne Molesworth,M. Darsie Alexander,Julia Bryan-Wilson,Baltimore Museum of Art,Des Moines Art Center,Wexner Center for the Arts

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Work Ethic

By: Helen Anne Molesworth,M. Darsie Alexander,Julia Bryan-Wilson,Baltimore Museum of Art,Des Moines Art Center,Wexner Center for the Arts

Examines the proliferation of new ways of making "art" in the 1960s by focusing on the changed organization of work in society at the time. Co-published with The Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name.

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Penn State Press

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0271023341

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9780271023342

The Peyote Effect

From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs

By: Alexander S. Dawson

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The Peyote Effect

From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs

By: Alexander S. Dawson

The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. While some have attempted to explain the cultural and religious significance of this cactus and drug, Alexander S. Dawson offers a completely new way of understanding the place of peyote in history. In this provocative new book, Dawson argues that peyote has marked the boundary between the Indian and the West since the Spanish Inquisition outlawed it in 1620. For nearly four centuries ecclesiastical, legal, scientific, and scholarly authorities have tried (unsuccessfully) to police that boundary to ensure that, while indigenous subjects might consume peyote, others could not. Moving back and forth across the U.S.–Mexico border, The Peyote Effect explores how battles over who might enjoy a right to consume peyote have unfolded in both countries, and how these conflicts have produced the racially exclusionary systems that characterizes modern drug regimes. Through this approach we see a surprising history of the racial thinking that binds these two countries more closely than we might otherwise imagine.

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316

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Univ of California Press

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0520960904

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9780520960909

Psychical Realism

By: Alexander Streitberger

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Psychical Realism

By: Alexander Streitberger

Comprehensive overview of a highly influential contemporary artist’s work Victor Burgin counts among the most versatile figures within art and visual culture since the late 1960s. His artwork both connects with and reacts to minimalism, conceptual art, staged photography, appropriation art, video art and, more recently, computer-based imaging. As a scholar his thinking is informed by phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis. This monograph provides a comprehensive and unique overview of Victor Burgin’s body of work over the past five decades. Identifying the concept of ‘psychical realism’ as an overarching umbrella term, Alexander Streitberger traces back the artist’s parallel unfolding of practice and theory, while situating this process within various historical contexts and critical debates. Five chapters link insightful case studies to key issues such as conceptual art and situational aesthetics, the relationship between representation and politics, postmodernist concepts of space, and the digital environment of media images. The book is richly illustrated and includes a sequence from the major work Dear Urania (2016) especially designed by the artist for this book.

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Leuven University Press

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9462702462

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9789462702462

A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method for the Simulation of Centralized Sloshing Experiments

By: Alexander Vorobyev

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A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method for the Simulation of Centralized Sloshing Experiments

By: Alexander Vorobyev

The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is proposed for studying hydrodynamic processes related to nuclear engineering problems. A problem of possible recriticality due to the sloshing motions of the molten reactor core is studied with SPH method. The accuracy of the numerical solution obtained in this study with the SPH method is significantly higher than that obtained with the SIMMER-III/IV reactor safety analysis code.

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144

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KIT Scientific Publishing

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3866449534

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9783866449534

ARCHITECTURE rendez-vous ART ‰Û¢ Episode 2

By: Alexander Pilis

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ARCHITECTURE rendez-vous ART ‰Û¢ Episode 2

By: Alexander Pilis

Art and Architecture are multi - faceted, with knowledge that reflects upon themselves. The intention for this course is to investigate the dialectical relationship between these two disciplines; through their theory and practice, context and materiality, form and representation, culture and territory; and to explore both languages as critical practices.The seminars will provide an informed introduction to the basic approaches to the relationship of two distinct languages that historically have engaged themselves and reflected social shifts. The students will examine, learn, discuss and represent possible strategies that art and architecture have created in cultural context with knowledge. Through discursive dialogue, the seminars will provide fundamental concepts of the theoretical vs. built production, the public vs. the private, politics to poetics, from mechanical to digital through an informed perspective of art in architecture within public and private spaces from 1914 to now with historical precedents.

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Lulu.com

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1329202880

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9781329202887

Protocol

How Control Exists after Decentralization

By: Alexander R. Galloway

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Protocol

How Control Exists after Decentralization

By: Alexander R. Galloway

How Control Exists after Decentralization Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconnections) possible. He does this by treating the computer as a textual medium that is based on a technological language, code. Code, he argues, can be subject to the same kind of cultural and literary analysis as any natural language; computer languages have their own syntax, grammar, communities, and cultures. Instead of relying on established theoretical approaches, Galloway finds a new way to write about digital media, drawing on his backgrounds in computer programming and critical theory. "Discipline-hopping is a necessity when it comes to complicated socio-technical topics like protocol," he writes in the preface. Galloway begins by examining the types of protocols that exist, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTML. He then looks at examples of resistance and subversion—hackers, viruses, cyberfeminism, Internet art—which he views as emblematic of the larger transformations now taking place within digital culture. Written for a nontechnical audience, Protocol serves as a necessary counterpoint to the wildly utopian visions of the Net that were so widespread in earlier days.

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MIT Press

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0262303639

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9780262303637

Historical Dictionary of Mexico

By: Ryan Alexander,Amelia M. Kiddle

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Historical Dictionary of Mexico

By: Ryan Alexander,Amelia M. Kiddle

Tracing the historical development of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic period to the present, the Historical Dictionary of Mexico, Third Edition, is an excellent resource for students, teachers, researchers, and the general public. This reference work includes a detailed chronology, an introduction surveying the country’s history, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section includes cross-referenced entries on the historical actors who shaped Mexican history, as well as entries on politics, government, the economy, culture, and the arts.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538111500

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9781538111505

Pictures and the Past

Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art

By: Alexander Bigman

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Pictures and the Past

Media, Memory, and the Specter of Fascism in Postmodern Art

By: Alexander Bigman

A fresh take on the group of artists known as the Pictures Generation, reinterpreting their work as haunted by the history of fascism, the threat of its return, and the effects of its recurring representation in postwar American culture. The artists of the Pictures Generation, converging on New York City in the late 1970s, indelibly changed the shape of American art. Rebelling against abstraction, they borrowed liberally from the aesthetics of mass media and sometimes the work of other artists. It has long been thought that the group’s main contribution was to upend received conceptions of authorial originality. In Pictures and the Past, however, art critic and historian Alexander Bigman shows that there is more to this moment than just the advent of appropriation art. He presents us with a bold new interpretation of the Pictures group’s most significant work, in particular its recurring evocations of fascist iconography. In the wake of the original Pictures show, curated by Douglas Crimp in 1977, artists such as Sarah Charlesworth, Jack Goldstein, Troy Brauntuch, Robert Longo, and Gretchen Bender raised pressing questions about what it means to perceive the world historically in a society saturated by images. Bigman argues that their references to past cataclysms—to the violence wrought by authoritarianism and totalitarianism—represent not only a coded form of political commentary about the 1980s but also a piercing reflection on the nature of collective memory. Throughout, Bigman situates their work within a larger cultural context including parallel trends in music, fashion, cinema, and literature. Pictures and the Past probes the shifting relationships between art, popular culture, memory, and politics in the 1970s and ’80s, examining how the specter of fascism loomed for artists then—and the ways it still looms for us today.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226833089

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9780226833088

Brian O'Doherty

Word, Image and Institutional Critique

By: Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

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Brian O'Doherty

Word, Image and Institutional Critique

By: Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

This collection of essays assembles investigations of Brian O'Doherty's/Patrick Ireland's seminal work: his visual art practice, art criticism, institutional leadership and critique, media work, and literary writing. The international authors provide fresh perspective on an oeuvre that has resonance on both sides of the Atlantic."--Back cover.

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Valiz/Vis-A-VIS

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9492095246

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9789492095244

Robert Smithson

By: Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art

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Robert Smithson

By: Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art

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0520244095

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Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971

By: Stan Douglas

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Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971

By: Stan Douglas

This is an art book on the politics of urban conflict based around artist Stan Douglas' stunning photo installation of the same name, depicting a violent confrontation in 1971 between police and Vancouver's counterculture known as the Gastown Riot. The book, which features essays by Alexander Alberro, Serge Guilbaut, and others, addresses various issues raised by Douglas' work, including the suppression and assimilation of the counterculture. It also includes other works from Douglas' Crowds and Riots series. Stan Douglas has exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale, Whitney Biennial, and documenta. He is the subject of numerous books, including Stan Douglas (Phaidon Press).

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arsenal pulp press

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1551524147

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9781551524146

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Abstraction in Reverse

Abstraction in Reverse

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

Abstraction in Reverse

Abstraction in Reverse

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Work Ethic

Work Ethic

The Peyote Effect

The Peyote Effect

Psychical Realism

Psychical Realism

A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method for the Simulation of Centralized Sloshing Experiments

A Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method for the Simulation of Centralized Sloshing Experiments

ARCHITECTURE rendez-vous ART ‰Û¢ Episode 2

ARCHITECTURE rendez-vous ART ‰Û¢ Episode 2

Protocol

Protocol

Historical Dictionary of Mexico

Historical Dictionary of Mexico

Pictures and the Past

Pictures and the Past

Brian O'Doherty

Brian O'Doherty

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971

Stan Douglas: Abbott and Cordova, 7 August 1971

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