Bibliotheek: nieuwe aanwinsten - juli-september 2015

Expeditie Land Art : Landschapskunst in Amerika, Groot Brittannië en Nederland / auteur Sandra Smallenburg. - Amsterdam ; Antwerpen : De Bezige Bij, 2015. - 208 p. : ills. ; 21 x 27 cm
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Sinds de jaren zestig van de twintigste eeuw dient het landschap ook zelf als kunst. In Expeditie land art gaat Sandra Smallenburg op zoek naar deze monumentale landschapskunstwerken. Ze reist door desolate gebieden van Amerika en ontdekt er werken die ieders voorstellingsvermogen te boven gaan: sculpturen zo groot als het Empire State Building en zo uitgestrekt als een middelgrote stad. Ze vindt er kunstwerken in zoutmeren, op hoogvlaktes en in het binnenste van een eeuwenoude vulkaan. Ook dichter bij huis blijkt er belangwekkende land art te vinden. Onder meer in de Flevopolder, op de Drentse veengronden en in de Haagse duinen bevinden zich topwerken van bekende hedendaagse kunstenaars als Richard Serra, Robert Smithson en James Turrell.
978-90-23492016

Making : Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture / by Tim Ingold. - Oxon : Routledge, 2013. - 164 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and archaeology not of but with art and architecture. He advocates a way of thinking through making in which conscious practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or ‘correspond', with one another in the making of form. It draws on examples and experiments ranging from prehistoric stone tool-making to the building of medieval cathedrals, from round mounds to monuments, from flying kites to winding string, from drawing to writing.
978-0-415-56723-7

In Dialogue with Carr: Gareth Moore : Allochthonous Window / text Grant Arnold. - Vancouver : Vancouver Art Gallery, 2013. - 16 p. + text insert : ills. ; 27 cm
In response to Emily Carr's travels to remote locations and the ceramic objects she produced for the tourist market, Vancouver-based artist Gareth Moore travelled through Europe, North America and Asia to investigate sites-some dating to prehistoric eras and others inhabited more recently-in which stone has a notable significance. During his travels, Moore produced stone carvings for exchange or sale to fellow travellers, as well as plein-air drawings incorporating found materials from the sites he visited. In Dialogue with Carr: Gareth Moore features a new work by Moore that includes objects and materials gathered during his journeys, as well as a selection of Emily Carr's ceramics, presented in relation to the specific physical structure of the gallery space.
978-1-927656-07-5

Navid Nuur : Mining Memory / text by Navid Nuur. - Berlin ; Cluj : Galerie Max Hetzler : Galerie Plan B, 2015. - 88 p. : ills. ; 27 cm
Includes biography.
Mining Memory is a publication accompanying the exhibitions of the same name at Galerie Max Hetzler and Galerie Plan B, both in Berlin, April - June 2015.
At the core of Nuur's exhibitions is a new fictional interview with a rock, which follows previous chapters of his text-based works like interview with water and the black color. This almost Platonic text makes the present constellation of Nuur's works, which he calls interimodules, appear as monoliths, questioning the definition of timelessness in relation of artworks to the world in which they can be found. Nuur's MINING MEMORY cycle is the most objective in artistic goals so far as it attempts to create a system out of his oeuvre which is mentally self-sustaining, making sense without human creative interpretation or misinterpretation, imbuing his work with a logic that makes us face eternity.


Michael Tedja : Aquaholism / documentation Michael Tedja ; contributions by Nav Haq and Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen; interview with Michael Tedja by Robert van Altena. - Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2014. - 442 p. : ills. ; 33 cm
Michael Tedja's Aquaholism is an exhibition catalogue, a published oeuvre, an artistic treatise, a poetry collection, a visual essay, an artist's book. It is a polyphonic collage of text and image. Tedja's new terminology serves to open up established systems of sociopolitics, identification, and aesthetics: the present publication frees concepts from their accepted function. Tedja's artworks remain similarly pliable and live beyond their initial exhibition.
978-3-95679-110-9

Adrian Henri: Total Artist / edited by Catherine Marcangelli ; texts by Bryan Biggs, Adrian Henri, Antony Hudek, Catherine Marcangelli. - London : Occasional Papers, 2014. - 240 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Includes biography, bibliographical references and index.
Adrian Henri (1932-2000) was a painter, poet, musician and a pioneer of happenings and events in Britain. This book covers his work from the 1960s and 1970s - when it was at its most radical, irreverent, innovative and collaborative - through paintings, collages, prints, artefacts and ephemera, rock posters, annotated scripts, correspondence and other rare archive material. While concentrating on Henri's work in different media, Total Artist captures some of the excitement and dynamics of the 1960s and 1970s art scenes in Britain and internationally. It places Henri at the centre of a distinctive yet highly connected counter-culture, providing an opportunity to consider his embrace of total art as a template for interdisciplinary art practice.
978-0-9569623-8-6

Art as Social Practice : A Critical Investigation of Works by Kenneth A. Balfelt / edited by Matthias Hvass Borello ; with contributions by Barbara Steiner, Brett Bloom, Matthias Hvass Borello and Daniel Tucker. - Berlin : Revolver Publishing, 2015. - 230 p. : ills. ; 21 cm
This book looks at a number of vigorously debated collaborative projects undertaken over the past twelve years in and outside Denmark by artist Kenneth A. Balfelt. It contains both introductions to five projects, interviews with the people involved in the projects and finally four essays trying to reflect on the impact of these kinds of artworks. As in many other social art practices Balfelt frequently works with a highly-defined and often marginalised group. We will therefore meet people involved directly or indirectly in the projects - also those who are not normally heard in the field of art criticism or not normally encountered by the public - in our effort to vitalize and qualify the critical language on social practices as a part of the contemporary art field.
978-3-95763-276-0

The Situationist Times : Complete facsimile of The Situationist Times / edited by Johan Kugelberg, Jacqueline de Jong. - New York : Boo-Hooray, 2013. - 7 vols. 734 p. : ills ; 29 cm
Jacqueline de Jong published the first issue of The Situationist Times in August 1962, a few months after leaving the Situationist International. Key contributors to The Situationist Times included Debord, Asger Jorn, Gruppe SPUR. The six issues of The Situationist Times published between 1962-1967 are an extraordinary marriage of political polemic and visual art. The first two issues were coedited by Noël Arnaud, editor of the solitary issue of Surrealiste Revolutionnaire. The second issue saw the first experiments with typography and multiple-colored paper stocks. Issue three was the first produced with de Jong solely at the helm. Her editorial style produced a range of contributors, from architects (Aldo Van Eyck, David Georges Emmerich) to an art historian (Hans Jaffe) to astrophysicists (Jayant Narlikar, Fred Hoyle) to a composer (Peter Schat). As the publication went on, the emphasis became more visual (issue three had "situlogical" patterns, issue four had labyrinths, issue five featured topology). The set also includes a seventh volume with commentary, essays, photography and ephemera.
978-1-938265099

De opstand van de massamens / door José Ortega y Gasset ; Ingeleid, vertaald en geannoteerd door Diederik Boomsma ; nabeschouwing Mario Vargas Llosa. - Rotterdam : Uitgeverij Lemniscaat, 2015. - 272 p. ; 24 cm
In zijn hoofdwerk De opstand van de massamens (1930) doordenkt Ortega in welke richting onze democratische maatschappij zich zou kunnen ontwikkelen. Hij ziet een groeiende rol van de massacultuur, een overwaardering van de overheid, een falende elite en een bevolking die vooral tevreden is met zichzelf. Ortega's analyse laat zich lezen alsof zij gisteren geschreven is. Hij is zich ervan bewust dat de rol van de negentiende-eeuwse elite is uitgespeeld. Maar wie of wat kan de beschaving dan in goede banen leiden? Dat vraagt om een wedergeboorte van de filosofie en een nieuwe elite van mensen, van welke rang of stand ook, die zich in dienst stellen van een groter ideaal. Niet denkend in rechten, maar in plichten. Niet zelfgenoegzaam, maar alert. Niet dogmatisch, maar vormend.
9789047706861

De nieuwe mens : De culturele revolutie in Nederland rond 1900 / door Auke van der Woud. - Amsterdam : Prometheus-Bert Bakker, 2015. - 352 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Bevat bibliografie, noten en registers.
Auke van der Woud beschrijft de culturele revolutie zoals die plaatsvond in de etalages, in de cafés, de theaters en de bioscopen, de musea en bij de monumenten, de badplaatsen, de nieuwe modieuze bloemen en planten, in de scholenbouw en de nieuwe stadswijken. In deze nieuwe cultuur werd het concrete, het materiële, belangrijker dan het ideële. Dit machtige panorama toont de bakermat van de nieuwe mens.
9789035142916

The Triumph of Typography : Culture, Communication, New Media / compiled and edited by Henk Hoeks and Ewan Lentjes ; with contributions by Petr Blokland, Yuri Engelhardt, Peter Bil'ak [...et al.]. - Arnhem ; Houten : ArtEZ Press : Uitgeverij Terra, 2015. - 360 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliography and index.
Typography touches on one of the key values of our society: the printed free word and democratic discourse. The new-media technology calls into question our accepted notion of typographic communication and raises a number of essential questions that we cannot ignore. Never since Gutenberg's invention of moveable type in the fifteenth century has typographic communication been exposed to such a fundamental change as it is today. Can typography still play a significant role when digitisation and new media shake at the foundations of the typographic trade? Now this trade finds itself at a crossroads. What direction will it take in its further development?
9789089896285

Aukje Koks : Ways of Being / edited by Aukje Koks in collaboration with Freek Lomme and Boy Vereecken ; texts by Bart Groenendaal, Bianca Stigter, Chris Sharp, Constance Barrère Angleterre. - Eindhoven : Onomatopee, 2014. - 65 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Under the semblance of normalcy Aukje Koks' works unite art and spectator in a split dimensionality; her paintings and sculptures make us aware of the perspective from which we view things. In Ways of Being these images are being shown in tandem with informal, prosaic reports in which friends, critics and curators attribute a relationship to this reality.
978-94-91677-27-4

Nederlandse kunst in de wereld : Literatuur architectuur en beeldende kunst 1980-2013 / door Ton Bevers, Bernard Colenbrander, Johan Heilbron, Nico Wilterdink. - Nijmegen : Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2015. - 448 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
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Hoe vinden vanuit een relatief klein land als Nederland culturele producten hun weg naar andere landen en continenten? En hoe wordt in het buitenland over dit werk geoordeeld?
Over ongeveer 2000 beeldend kunstenaars, 360 architecten en 100 schrijvers werd een schat aan informatie verzameld. De gevonden patronen van spreiding en waardering en van veranderingen daarin hebben de auteurs vastgelegd in tabellen en grafieken, in beschrijvingen en analyses van het culturele veld en in portretten van de carrières van individuele schrijvers, architecten en beeldend kunstenaars.

9789460042126

Folkert de Jong : Hominid Land / texts by Michaël Amy, Florence Calame-Levert, Annabelle Ténèze. - Paris ; Leipzig : Galerie Dukan, 2014. - 130 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Het Musée d'Art, Histoire et Archéologie in Evreux gaf Folkert de Jong carte blanche om met de tentoonstelling 'Hominid land' het bezit van het museum te mengen met nieuw werk. Zo ontstaat er een dialoog tussen het werk van de kunstenaar en de collectie van het Museum van Evreux.

Peter Zegveld : Exploded View / met tekstbijdragen van Marina de Vries, Atte Jongstra, Jurriaan van Kranendonk [...et al.]. - Nijmegen : Uitgeverij Vantilt, 2013. - 120 p. : ills. ; 30 cm
Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling van beeldend kunstenaar, geluidskunstenaar, televisie- en theatermaker Peter Zegveld (Den Haag, 1951) in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, najaar 2013. In al zijn werk staan natuurkundige principes centraal: de werking van licht, lucht, geluid en zwaartekracht. Zijn gelaste en geconstrueerde installaties ontregelen de zintuigen en spelen met begrippen als ernst, ironie en vervreemding.
9789460041471

James Lee Byars : I.C.A.M.W.A.D. : I Cancel All My Works At Death / written and directed by Triple Candle ; dramaturgy by Jens Hoffmann. - Detroit : Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2014. - 138 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
I Cancel All My Works at Death is the first comprehensive survey of the plays, actions, and performances of James Lee Byars (Detroit 1932 - Cairo 1997). Spanning the period from 1960 (when he created his first action in Kyoto, Japan) to 1981 (when de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam presented a year-long survey), the exhibition, which is titled after Byars' now-famous speech act, adopts the premise that the artist and his work are better mis-remembered than re-experienced. I Cancel All My Works at Death therefore presents none of his actual performances; nor does it include objects made, owned, or used by him, nor vintage ephemera--with the exception of obituaries published in newspapers at the time of his death. What it does include are suits and costumes, scripts, theater posters, props, puppet videos, a detailed timeline, among other elements. It also includes new, un-authored solo actions and group events that will be carried out sparingly and intermittently during the run of the show.
978-0-9823896-3-8

Whispers: Ulay on Ulay / authors Maria Rus Bojan, Alessandro Cassin ; with contributions by Marina Abramaovic, Laurie Anderson, Charlemagne Palestine [...et al.]. - Amsterdam VALIZ, 2014. - 536 p. : ills. ; 22,5 cm
Includes biography, bibliographical references and index.
Uwe Frank Laysiepen (born 1943), better known as Ulay, has been a pioneer of Polaroid photography and one of the central figures of performance art since the 1970s. A singular presence among the artists of his generation, his radically innovative work, partly known for his twelve-year partnership with Marina Abramović, has received critical acclaim worldwide.
Whispers: Ulay on Ulay reveals an extremely innovative oeuvre that is coherently rooted in a personal life philosophy, which is guided by strong ethical principles. This book attempts to uncover the threads that weave the seemingly disparate aspects of his work into a fabric of passionate pursuits, driven by a rigorous inner necessity.

978-90-78088-72-1

Queer Zines Box Set, Volumes 1 & 2 / edited by AA Bronson and Philip Aarons ; zine descriptions by Alex Gartenfeld. - New York ; Rotterdam : Printed Matter : Witte de With, 2013, second edition (Queer Zines 1 was first published in 2008). - 264 p. + 272 p. : ills. ; 27 cm
Queer Zines and Queer Zines 2 have been published in relation to the exhibition Queer Zines, presented in "The Temptation of AA Bronson" at Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 2013, and then at Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair in January 2014. That exhibition, curated by Philip Aarons and AA Bronson, is an expanded version of the exhibition of the same name first presented at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair in 2008.
Including in these volumes: an expanded focus on overlooked ‘historical' publications dating from the early 70s onward, and extensive entries charting a new generation of queer zinesters, this second volume offers a broad survey of the vibrant and evolving medium.

978-0-89439-068-5 ; 978-0-89439-070-8

In the divine memory of Marlon Riggs (1957-1994) / edited by Maria Guggenbichler & Hodan Warsame. - Amsterdam : Redmond Amsterdam, 2014. - 56 p. : ills. ; 30 cm
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Marlon Riggs' passing on April 5th, Maria Guggenbichler & Hodan Warsame (Redmond Amsterdam) are screening all of Riggs' films, documentaries and short films. Marlon Troy Riggs was a filmmaker, educator, poet and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries; of which his 1987 "Ethnic Notions" won an Emmy award; the 1989 "Tongues Untied" the best documentary award at the Berlin International Film Festival; and his 1992 "Color Adjustment" a Peabody Award. Marlon Riggs succumbed to AIDS on April 5th 1994, at age 37.

Home is where the Dog is / concept, photography and design Erik van der Weijde. - Berlin : 4478ZINE, 2014. - 160 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Four white walls that enclose a tropical garden set the limits for this carefully directed view that photographer Erik van der Weijde offers us. Bathing cousins, a posing wife, the undisturbed dog, a dead rat, a playing son, the smoking mother-in-law and a stoic cat - all become actors in a play about the boundaries of what's private and what's public. The images were shot with an iPhone during the first hours of dusk over the course of almost two years.
978-94-91047060

Florencia : Huiskamer van de stad / concept Stephan Csikos ; fotografie Otto Snoek ; historische inleiding Prof. dr. Frank Bovenkerk ; teksten Bob van der Sterre, George Vermij. - Antwerpen : Uitgeverij Vrijdag, 2015. - 152 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
In Florencia ontmoet de hele stad elkaar; dikwijls vormt een vast groepje al een rij voordat om half acht 's ochtends de deuren open gaan. Tot bijna middernacht is Florencia zoiets als het Europees Parlement maar dan gezellig en ongedwongen, met vertegenwoordigers van alle nationaliteiten, alle religies, alle politieke richtingen, en in alle leeftijden - van ministers tot werk- en thuislozen, van dametjes tot lolita's, van fiscalisten tot belastingontduikers, van schakers tot boksers. In een inleiding brengt cultureel antropoloog prof.dr. Frank Bovenkerk Florencia's betekenis in historisch perspectief.
978-94-6001-358-4