Laxmi P. Sihare (ed.): Computer Art, catalogue (1972)

Catalogue for an exhibition of 157 works held in March-April 1972 at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, India, organised in collaboration with Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, and IBM India.

With essays by Laxmi P. Sihare (then director of the gallery), Herbert W. Franke and S.L. Kapoor (then a system engineer at IBM-India).

57 pages
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Hold stenhårdt fast på greia di: norsk kunst og kvinnekamp 1968-89 / Norwegian Art and Feminism 1968-89 (2013) [Norwegian/English]

Hold stenhårdt fast på greia di (“Hold on to your thing”, but the original title holds more references) is the first major exhibition to consider the connections between artistic practice and the feminist movement in Norway.

“The exhibition presents an overview of the many ways in which second-wave feminist ideas contributed to a transformation of the accepted subjects and methods of contemporary art in Norway, as well as the creative contribution that artists made to the public representation of the women’s movement. From the formal liberations of the 60s avant-garde, through the developing political awareness and organised struggles of the 70s, to the disenchantment of the 80s, the exhibition also aims to show some of the ways in which formal art production was influenced by a radical core of activist practice.” (from the catalogue)

The exhibition was first held at Kunsthall Oslo (March-April 2013); another show is scheduled at Kunsthall Stavanger (January-April 2014). It is curated by Eline Mugaas, Elise Storsveen and Kunsthall Oslo.

Publisher Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, 2013
32 pages

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Dawn Ades, Simon Baker (eds.): Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS (2006)

“In the Paris art world of the 1920s, Georges Bataille and his journal DOCUMENTS represented a dissident branch of surrealism. Bataille—poet, philosopher, writer, and self-styled “enemy within” surrealism—used DOCUMENTS to put art into violent confrontation with popular culture, ethnography, film, and archaeology. Undercover Surrealism, taking the visual richness of DOCUMENTS as its starting point, recovers the explosive and vital intellectual context of works by Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Giacometti, and others in 1920s Paris. Featuring 180 color images and translations of original texts from DOCUMENTS accompanied by essays and shorter descriptive texts, Undercover Surrealism recreates and recontextualizes Bataille’s still unsettling approach to culture. Putting Picasso’s Three Dancers back into its original context of sex, sacrifice, and violence, for example, then juxtaposing it with images of gang wars, tribal masks, voodoo ritual, Hollywood musicals, and jazz, makes the urgency and excitement of Bataille’s radical ideas startlingly vivid to a twenty-first-century reader.”

With contributions by Fiona Bradley, Neil Cox, Caroline Hancock, Denis Hollier, William Jeffett, CFB Miller, Michael Richardson, and Ian Walker.

Publisher Hayward Gallery, London, with MIT Press, Cambridge/MA, 2006
ISBN 1853322504, 9781853322501
272 pages

Exh. reviews: Peter Suchin (Frieze), Benjamin Noys (Radical Philosophy), John Phillips and Ma Shaoling (Theory, Culture & Society).
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