Another City for Another Life: Constant’s New Babylon (1999)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · architecture, situationists
Publication accompanying “the first major U.S. presentation of the work of Constant and his New Babylon project. The exhibition was organized for The Drawing Center by Mark Wigley, based on the retrospective he curated for the Witte de With in Rotterdam in 1998. Another City for Another Life focuses on Constant’s tremendous contribution to visionary architecture through the practice of drawing and offered an in-depth consideration of the artist’s futuristic project.”
Featuring an introduction by Catherine de Zegher, an essay by Mark Wigley, and an attachment with five texts by Constant Nieuwenhuys: ‘Manifesto’ (1948), ‘On Our Means and Our Perspectives’ (1958), Lecture at the ICA, London (7 Nov 1963), ‘The Rise and Decline of the Avant-Garde’ (1964), and ‘Planology or Revolution?’ (1969).
Publisher The Drawing Center, New York, 1999
Drawing Papers series, 3
39+34 pages
Xanti Schawinsky: Head Drawings and Faces of War (2014)
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This catalogue offers “a look at first generation Bauhaus artist Alexander ‘Xanti’ Schawinsky’s oeuvre, which encompasses a range of social and political investigations. Schawinsky played a key role in the school’s vital social life and was a member of the Bauhaus Band. He studied graphic design and experimental photography and was also deeply engaged in the Bauhaus’s theater workshop as an actor, set and costume designer, creator of performances, and teacher.
The exhibition catalogue focuses on two bodies of work Schawinsky made between 1941 and 1946, Faces of War and the Head Drawings. The former are man-machine hybrids that could represent either an aggressive enemy or a powerful avenger—or perhaps an identity that encompasses both. The Faces of War break from the utopian optimism of the early Bauhaus and reveal the existential struggle of an artist coping with identity and the devastation of war. The Head Drawings allowed Schawinsky to literally remake his own “portrait” out of such detritus of the natural world as thread, crystals, rope, and rocks.”
Introduction by Brett Littman
Essays by Michael Bracewell and Juliet Koss
Publisher The Drawing Center, New York, 2014
Drawing Papers series, 119
ISBN 9780942324891
120 pages
The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art (1977) [EN, FR]
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · art, avant-garde, conceptual art, dada, fluxus, futurism, music, sound art
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas, 4 December 1977 – 15 January 1978; Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 3 February – 8 March 1978; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, 7 September – 22 October 1978; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, no dates listed.
Text by Anne Livet and Germano Celant. Artists include Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Hugo Ball, Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein, Raoul Hausmann, Jean Tinguely, Allan Kaprow, Billy Kluver, Lawrence Weiner, Eliane Radigue, Jan Dibbets, Joseph Beuys, Dick Raaijmakers, Braco Dimitrijević, Antonio Dias, Sarkis, Michael Snow, Topor, Jack Goldstein, Art & Language, and others. Includes discography, index of record producers, and list of works.
Edited by Germano Celant
Publisher Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1977
121 pages
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