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The Cult of Sensibility in 20th-Century Art

by Antje von Graevenitz, Neil Holt ...

Countless artists in the 20th century celebrated the vision of a "complete renewal of human sensibility" (Marinetti). They hoped that their works would awaken sensitivity in those who see, hear, touch, or participate in any other way. This book focuses on aspects such as identity, self-experience, failure, being thrown into the world and its aftermath, dazzling illusions, initiation, intimacy and ... Read more

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Countless artists in the 20th century celebrated the vision of a "complete renewal of human sensibility" (Marinetti). They hoped that their works would awaken sensitivity in those who see, hear, touch, or participate in any other way. This book focuses on aspects such as identity, self-experience, failure, being thrown into the world and its aftermath, dazzling illusions, initiation, intimacy and
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Stopgap Measures

Writings on Mike Kelley

by John C. Welchman, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 32 - Hatje Cantz Text
Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman.Kelley's provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times— in performance, writing, painting, ... Read more

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Stopgap Measures presents an exciting selection of essays, interviews and shorter pieces on the work of American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) written over more than three decades by the noted art historian and cultural critic John C. Welchman.Kelley's provocative career gave rise to some of the most conceptually and materially diverse work of recent times— in performance, writing, painting,
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Charles Simonds and the Seventies

by Jules Pelta Feldman, Charles Simonds, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 34 - Hatje Cantz Text
Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy ... Read more

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Where is Charles Simonds? Throughout the 1970s, his diminutive Dwellings, tiny architectural ruins of an imaginary civilization, could be found throughout the crumbling infrastructure of downtown New York. Preoccupied with the relationship between the grown and the built, the archaeological and the urban, Simonds shared friendship and ideas with Gordon Matta-Clark and Robert Smithson. Like Lucy
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Katharina Grosse. In Conversation with Klaus Dermutz

by Katharina Grosse, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 39 - Hatje Cantz Text
When painting goes beyond the canvasKatharina Grosse is one of today's most radical painters. Her art spills beyond the canvas, claiming entire rooms, buildings, and landscapes with bold color and immersive gesture. Over two years, she met with writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz for a series of in-depth conversations exploring her thoughts on painting, perception, space, and time.This book brings ... Read more

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When painting goes beyond the canvasKatharina Grosse is one of today's most radical painters. Her art spills beyond the canvas, claiming entire rooms, buildings, and landscapes with bold color and immersive gesture. Over two years, she met with writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz for a series of in-depth conversations exploring her thoughts on painting, perception, space, and time.This book brings
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Donatien Grau. Living Museums

by Irina Antonova, Alan Bowness, Timothy Clifford, Michel Laclotte, Henri Loyrette, Philippe de Montebello, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Wilfried Seipel, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 1 - Hatje Cantz Text
A rare glimpse behind the scenes of the world's most influential museumsWho are the people shaping the world's most renowned museums? In this captivating book, Donatien Grau offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of leading art institutions and their visionary directors. Through insightful conversations with some of the most influential figures in the museum world, he reveals how they opened ... Read more

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A rare glimpse behind the scenes of the world's most influential museumsWho are the people shaping the world's most renowned museums? In this captivating book, Donatien Grau offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of leading art institutions and their visionary directors. Through insightful conversations with some of the most influential figures in the museum world, he reveals how they opened
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Bettina Lockemann

Thinking the Photobook. A Practical Guide

by Bettina Lockemann, Bettina Lockemann, Bettina Lockemann, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 19 - Hatje Cantz Text
The photobook visually and materially contextualizes arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding have just as much of an effect on the viewer as the selection of images, their positioning in the layout, typography, and the texts. The artist and theorist Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to ... Read more

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The photobook visually and materially contextualizes arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding have just as much of an effect on the viewer as the selection of images, their positioning in the layout, typography, and the texts. The artist and theorist Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to
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Vittoria Martini

Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival. The Ambassador's Diary

by Vittoria Martini, Vittoria Martini, Thomas Hirschhorn, Thomas Hirschhorn, Claire Bishop, Lisa Lee, Mignon Nixon, Marcus Steinweg, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 21 - Hatje Cantz Text
The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its "Ambassador", art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this "precarious" work. A term Hirschhorn sees as ... Read more

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The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its "Ambassador", art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this "precarious" work. A term Hirschhorn sees as
... Read more
Skin in the Game

Conversations on Risk and Contention

by Clémentine Deliss, Collier Schorr, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Otobong Nkanga, Andrea Zittel, Ruth Buchanan, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 28 - Hatje Cantz Text
Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book, Clémentine Deliss expands on how artists understand risk and contention both in their work and with regard to historical collections. Through a series of compelling conversations, questions are raised on how to work on colonial collections through the concept of the "prototype" as generative of ... Read more

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Skin in the Game follows on from the acclaimed fieldwork diary, The Metabolic Museum. In this new book, Clémentine Deliss expands on how artists understand risk and contention both in their work and with regard to historical collections. Through a series of compelling conversations, questions are raised on how to work on colonial collections through the concept of the "prototype" as generative of
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Nadim Samman

Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene

by Nadim Samman, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 20 - Hatje Cantz Text
Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions of our technological landscape. Running counter to erroneous claims regarding a new culture of transparency and openness, such artworks address black sites, black boxes, and black holes—all the ... Read more

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Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions of our technological landscape. Running counter to erroneous claims regarding a new culture of transparency and openness, such artworks address black sites, black boxes, and black holes—all the
... Read more
Tal Sterngast. Twelve Paintings

Excursions in the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

by Michael Eissenhauer, Tal Sterngast, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 2 - Hatje Cantz Text
Berlin's Gemäldegalerie is known for its outstanding collection of European paintings from the thirteenth to eighteenth century. Each chapter in this book is dedicated to one painting from the collection. In the breadth of this idiosyncratic selection, painting, as it discovers itself becomes a medium for the formulation of modern subjectivity. Each painting in focus unfolds its own making and its ... Read more

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Berlin's Gemäldegalerie is known for its outstanding collection of European paintings from the thirteenth to eighteenth century. Each chapter in this book is dedicated to one painting from the collection. In the breadth of this idiosyncratic selection, painting, as it discovers itself becomes a medium for the formulation of modern subjectivity. Each painting in focus unfolds its own making and its
... Read more
Milkyways

by Camille Henrot, Camille Henrot, Camille Henrot, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 27 - Hatje Cantz Text
Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process of creation in both art-making and life. Each chapter delivers a cosmos of references in literature, cartoons, art history, psychoanalysis, and more—from ancient maternity myths to modern maternity wards; from Marcel Proust to Maggie Nelson to Hélène Cixous. Alongside illustrations ... Read more

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Milkyways is a collection of essays by artist Camille Henrot, exploring the ambivalence of motherhood and the process of creation in both art-making and life. Each chapter delivers a cosmos of references in literature, cartoons, art history, psychoanalysis, and more—from ancient maternity myths to modern maternity wards; from Marcel Proust to Maggie Nelson to Hélène Cixous. Alongside illustrations
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Story of Water and Fire

by May Muzaffar, Neil Holt ...

Series Book 26 - Hatje Cantz Text
Story of Water and Fire is a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the Iraqi art scene, poet and art critic May Muzaffar and artist Rafa Nasiri. This book offers a glimpse into the social and artistic milieu of Baghdad from the 1960s to the 1990s, as well as the couple's travels during this period and their years of exile in Amman and Manama. Through vivid descriptions ... Read more

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Story of Water and Fire is a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the Iraqi art scene, poet and art critic May Muzaffar and artist Rafa Nasiri. This book offers a glimpse into the social and artistic milieu of Baghdad from the 1960s to the 1990s, as well as the couple's travels during this period and their years of exile in Amman and Manama. Through vivid descriptions
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