William C. Seitz: The Responsive Eye (1965)

“In 1965, an exhibition called The Responsive Eye, created by William C. Seitz was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The works shown were wide ranging, encompassing the minimalism of Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly, the smooth plasticity of Alexander Liberman, the collaborative efforts of the Anonima group, alongside the well-known Victor Vasarely, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Bridget Riley. The exhibition focused on the perceptual aspects of art, which result both from the illusion of movement and the interaction of color relationships. The exhibition was enormously popular with the general public, though less so with the critics. Critics dismissed op art as portraying nothing more than trompe l’oeil, or tricks that fool the eye. Regardless, op art’s popularity with the public increased, and op art images were used in a number of commercial contexts. Bridget Riley tried to sue an American company, without success, for using one of her paintings as the basis of a fabric design.” (Wikipedia)

Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York; in collaboration with The City Art Museum of St. Louis, The Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, The Pasadena Art Museum, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1965
58 pages

Exh. review: Thomas B. Hess (ARTnews, 1965).

Brian de Palma’s “The Responsive Eye” (film, on UbuWeb)

Publisher (incl. press releases and installation views)

PDF (12 MB, no OCR)
PDF (scan from UbuWeb, contributed by Marcelo Gutman, 80 MB)
PDF (scan from MoMA, 12 MB, added on 2016-9-18)

Anri Sala: Entre chien et loup / When the Night Calls it a Day (2004) [French/English]

Cette publication a été réalisée à l’occasion de l’exposition de Anri Sala Entre chien et loup au Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris du 25 mars au 16 mai 2004. Pour la première fois, ce livre témoigne de la diversité de l’oeuvre d’Anri Sala, qui s’est imposé très vite comme un des acteurs majeurs de l’art d’aujourd’hui. Anri Sala, né à Tirana, en 1974, explore le politique dans un travail où la composante esthétique reste essentielle.

Contributions by Suzanne Pagé, Laurence Bossé, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Garimorth, Patricia Falguières, Jacques Rancière, Israel Rosenfield, Alexandre .. Daniel Costanzo, Molly Nesbit, Philippe Parreno

This publication accompanies the exhibition of Anri Sala “Entre chien et loup” held by Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris from March 25 until May 16, 2004.
Coordination Julia Garimorth
Publisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2004
ISBN 388375806X, 9783883758060
200 pages

google books

PDF (no OCR; updated on 2012-7-14)

Transitland: Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe, 1989–2009 (2010) [English/Russian]

“Transitland is a major retrospective devised by the leading contemporary art centers of Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria. A series of Media Forum events organized by the MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture in 2010 were dedicated to it: an exhibition in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, lectures and a panel discussion in the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture. The video artists born behind the Iron curtain discussed things that went on in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the destinies of their own countries, many of which have already disappeared from the map.”

With essays by Kathy Ray Huffman, Olga Shishko, Keiko Sei, Alexey Isaev, Edit András, Constantin Bokhorov, and Marina Gržinić.

Publisher MediaArtLab, Moscow, 2010
137 pages

Project website and archive (archived)
Exhibition
Publisher

PDF (updated on 2013-5-29)

See also earlier Transitland publication, edited by Edit András and published in Budapest, 2009, 319 pp. (added on 2015-11-28)