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The arcades. Contemporary art and Walter Benjamin
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ISBN: 9780300221992 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Yale University Press, The Jewish Museum.

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Schone kunsten : een persoonlijke reis langs mensen, musea, muziek, meesterwerken en alle dingen die ons leven kleur geven
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ISBN: 9789463102254 9463102256 Year: 2017 Publisher: Antwerpen Polis

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Oscar Wilde had gelijk. Het leven bootst de kunst meer na dan de kunst het leven nabootst. Al vele jaren lang verpersoonlijkt Kurt Van Eeghem op onnavolgbare wijze het kunstminnende publiek. Zijn talent voor bewondering is legendarisch. Of het nu over beeldende kunst, theater, muziek of literatuur gaat, zijn enthousiasme laat niemand onberoerd. In 'Schone kunsten' leidt Kurt Van Eeghem ons rond in een wondere wereld. Er is altijd nog zoveel dat we kunnen zien, beleven of lezen. Ons leven is te kort voor al die schoonheid. Daarom hebben we een ervaren gids nodig. Iemand die ons door zijn eigen verwondering leert kijken, lezen en genieten.


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Een spel van ogenblik en eeuwig : is christelijk geïnspireerde kunst vandaag nog mogelijk ?
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ISBN: 9789085284475 Year: 2017 Publisher: Antwerpen Halewijn

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Only a promise of happiness : the place of beauty in a world of art
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ISBN: 9780691177601 0691177600 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press


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Beg, steal & borrow : artists against originality
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ISBN: 9781780679464 1780679467 Year: 2017 Publisher: United Kingdom Laurence King Publishing

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'Art is theft,' Picasso once proclaimed, and much of the best and most original new art involves an act or two of unequivocal, overt theft. Paradoxically, the law relating to artistic borrowing has grown more restrictive. 'The plagiarism and copyright trials of the twenty-first century are what the obscenity trials were to the twentieth century', Kenneth Goldsmith, has observed. 'These are really the issues of our time.' Beg, Steal and Borrow offers a comprehensive and provocative survey of a complex subject that is destined to grow in relevance and importance.It traces an artistic lineage of appropriation from Michelangelo to Jeff Koons, and examines the history of its legality from the sixteenth century to now.https://www.copyrightbookshop.be/shop/beg-steal-borrow-artists-against-originality/

Het wilde ding
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ISBN: 9789490800598 9490800597 9789069170046 9069170043 Year: 2017 Publisher: Gent : Ape,

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Het Wilde Ding is een poging tot het benoemen en beschrijven van vaak ongrijpbare kwaliteiten, die we kunnen ervaren in het alledaagse gebruiksvoorwerp. Het gaat niet om functie, noch om louter vorm, evenmin om een concept en al helemaal niet om een trend. Wat is het dan wel dat ervoor zorgt dat het ene glas meer ‘aura’ heeft, meer glans, meer passie, meer ‘mystieke allure’? Er lijkt een licht te schijnen langs de binnenkant der dingen. Niet het licht van de media en de marketing, die als schijnwerpers de consument verblinden, maar een helder licht dat letterlijk tot de verbeelding spreekt en het gevolg kan zijn van de methodiek en intentie van de maker. Zoals de aloude ambachtsman ontwerpt deze vanuit een eenheid met de materie en de kosmos. Hij stelt zich ten dienste. Hierbij gebeurt als het ware een overdracht van maker naar ding, waardoor het gebruiksvoorwerp bezield raakt.Dit boek poogt om deze overdracht te beschrijven en legt daarbij de nadruk op een bepaalde manier van zowel ontwerpen, als het ervaren van dingen, waarbij een eenheid tussen mens, ding en kosmos centraal staat. Deze attitude staat in schril contrast met de hedendaagse star-designer, die vaak nodeloze producten bedenkt die de consument status geven, en vooral willen verleiden tot nodeloze aankopen.Aan de hand van essays wordt enerzijds de geschiedenis van design, de nieuwste bewegingen binnen design, als een fenomenologische methodologie aangereikt, die zowel maker als consument op een hernieuwde, poëtische manier met het alledaagse gebruiksvoorwerp laten omgaan. Het zoeken naar een duurzaamheid en zingeving die verder gaat dan het ecologische aspect van materialen, is hierbij de rode draad.


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A Glimpse of the Concealed : body - intuition - art
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ISBN: 9789085867395 9085867398 Year: 2017 Publisher: Kontich : BAI : Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp,

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Some artworks do something to you. They leave you feeling bereft, give you new insights, offer a new way of seeing things, make you happy, hopeful or despairing. This was true in the past, and it remains true today. It is this universal experience that art brings about that is the subject of the exhibition 'Encounters/Ontmoetingen'. KMSKA-curator Paul Vandenbroeck has selected a hundred works from all over the world, from early antiquity to the present day, by well-known and lesser-known artists, from paintings and sculptures to video, installations and textiles. 'Encounters/Ontmoetingen' is not a conventional exhibition. You need no prior knowledge before you walk in. On the contrary, the most important thing is to enter the MAS without preconceptions, and let the art speak for itself. The works are not exhibited according to traditional categories, but grouped into intuitive clusters: sometimes on the basis of aesthetic conventions, sometimes on the basis of a tension between works of diverse origins. The exhibition starts from the notion that art, separately from any idea, thought or belief, has the capacity to touch you, even if you have no idea who the artist is and where the work comes from. To keep the experience pure, there is no text or explanation accompanying the exhibits. All you get as a spectator is the names of the works and the artists. Exhibition: MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium (19.05.-20.08.2017).


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The inbetweenness of things : materializing mediation and movement between worlds
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ISBN: 9781474264778 1474264778 9781350085688 1350085685 1474264808 1474264786 1474264794 9781474264785 9781474264808 9781474264785 9781474264792 Year: 2017 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc,

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"We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of 'animate' and 'inanimate', 'natural' and 'supernatural', 'self' and 'other', 'authentic' and 'inauthentic'. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions -- which tend to categorize objects using bounded notions of period, place and purpose -- and argues instead for a paradigm where objects are not one thing or another but a multiplicity of things at once. Adopting an 'object-centred' approach, with contributions from material culture specialists across various disciplines, the book showcases a series of objects that defy neat classification. In the process, it explores how 'things' mediate and travel between conceptual worlds in diverse cultural, geographic and temporal contexts, and how they embody this mediation and movement in their form. With an impressive range of international authors, each essay grounds explorations of cutting-edge theory in concrete case studies. An innovative, thought-provoking read for students and researchers in anthropology, archaeology, museum studies and art history which will transform the way readers think about objects."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Former west : art and the contemporary after 1989
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ISBN: 9780262533836 0262533839 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London Mit Press

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Explorations of the “formering” of the West in contemporary art in the post-communist, postcolonial, posthuman, post-ideological, and posthistorical era. What has become of the so-called West after the Cold War ? Why hasn't the West simply become “former,” as has its supposed counterpart, the “former East” ? In this book, artists, thinkers, and activists explore the repercussions of the political, cultural, and economic events of 1989 on both art and the contemporary. The culmination of an eight-year curatorial research experiment, Former West imagines a world beyond our immediate condition. The writings, visual essays, and conversations in Former West―more than seventy diverse contributions with global scope―unfold a tangled cartography far more complex than the simplistic dichotomy of East vs. West. In fact, the Cold War was a contest not between two ideological blocs but between two variants of Western modernity. It is this conceptual “Westcentrism” that a “formering” of the West seeks to undo. The contributions revisit contemporary debates through the lens of a “former West.” They rethink conceptions of time and space dominating the legacy of the 1989–1990 revolutions in the former East, and critique historical periodization of the contemporary. The contributors map the political economy and social relations of the contemporary, consider the implications of algorithmic cultures and the posthuman condition, and discuss notions of solidarity―the difficulty in constructing a new “we” despite migration, the refugee crisis, and the global class recomposition. Can art institute the contemporary it envisions, and live as if it were possible ? Contributors include : Nancy Adajania, Edit András, Athena Athanasiou, Zygmunt Bauman, Dave Beech, Brett Bloom, Rosi Braidotti, Susan Buck-Morss, Campus in Camps, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Chto Delat?/What is to be done?, Jodi Dean, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Angela Dimitrakaki, Dilar Dirik, Marlene Dumas, Keller Easterling, Charles Esche, Okwui Enwezor, Silvia Federici, Mark Fisher, Federica Giardini and Anna Simone, Boris Groys, Gulf Labor Coalition, Stefano Harney, Sharon Hayes, Brian Holmes, Tung-Hui Hu, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Sami Khatib, Delaine Le Bas, Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann, Isabell Lorey, Sven Lu¨tticken, Ewa Majewska, Suhail Malik, Artemy Magun, Teresa Margolles, Achille Mbembe, Laura McLean, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Sandro Mezzadra, Walter D. Mignolo, Aernout Mik, Angela Mitropoulos, Rastko Mocnik, Nástio Mosquito, Rabih Mroué, Pedro Neves Marques, Peter Osborne, Matteo Pasquinelli, Andrea Phillips, Nina Power, Vijay Prashad, Gerald Raunig, Irit Rogoff, Naoki Sakai, Rasha Salti, Francesco Salvini, Georg Schöllhammer, Christoph Schlingensief, Susan Schuppli, Andreas Siekmann, Jonas Staal, Hito Steyerl, Mladen Stilinovic, Paulo Tavares, Trinh T. Minh-Hà, Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor, Marina Vishmidt, McKenzie Wark, Eyal Weizman.


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The aesthetics of atmospheres
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ISBN: 1134967918 9781134967919 9781315538181 1315538180 9781138324558 9781138688506 1138688509 9781134967988 1134967985 9781134968053 1134968051 1138324558 Year: 2017 Publisher: London, England New York, New York Routledge

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Interest in sensory atmospheres and architectural and urban ambiances has been growing for over 30 years. A key figure in this field is acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme whose influential conception of what atmospheres are and how they function has been only partially available to the English-speaking public. This translation of key essays along with an original introduction charts the development of Gernot Böhme's philosophy of atmospheres and how it can be applied in various contexts such as scenography, commodity aesthetics, advertising, architecture, design, and art.The phenomenological analysis of atmospheres has proved very fruitful and its most important, and successful, application has been within aesthetics. The material background of this success may be seen in the ubiquitous aestheticization of our lifeworld, or from another perspective, of the staging of everything, every event and performance. The theory of atmospheres becoming an aesthetic theory thus reveals the theatrical, not to say manipulative, character of politics, commerce, of the event-society. But, taken as a positive theory of certain phenomena, it offers new perspectives on architecture, design, and art. It made the spatial and the experience of space and places a central subject and hence rehabilitated the ephemeral in the arts. Taking its numerous impacts in many fields together, it initiated a new humanism: the individual as a living person and his or her perspective are taken seriously, and this fosters the ongoing democratization of culture, in particular the possibility for everybody to participate in art and its works.

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