Jonathan Benthall: Science and Technology in Art Today (1972)
Filed under book | Tags: · art and science, art criticism, computer art, computing, holography, kinetic art, media art, photography, technology
An early treatise on art, science and technology based on the series of articles written for Studio International.
Publisher Praeger, New York, 1972
180 pages
Review: John H. Holloway (Leonardo, 1975).
PDF (46 MB)
See also Jonathan Bentham’s Technological Art and Studio International‘s Eclectic Vanguardism, 2017.
Lucy R. Lippard: Changing: Essays in Art Criticism (1971)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, art criticism
A collection of articles published in Art International, Artforum, Art in America, Hudson Review and exhibition catalogues, covering the art of the 1960s.
Publisher Dutton, New York, 1971
Documents in Modern Art Criticism series, 2
ISBN 0525079424, 9780525079422
320 pages
PDF (89 MB)
Comment (0)Izabel Galliera: Socially Engaged Art After Socialism: Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe (2017)
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, bulgaria, civil society, communism, contemporary art, east-central europe, eastern europe, hungary, participation, politics, romania, southeastern europe
“Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity and solidarity. Drawing on archival material and exclusive interviews, in this book Izabel Galliera traces the development of socially engaged art from the early 1990s to the present in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. She demonstrates that, in the early 1990s, projects were primarily created for exhibitions organized and funded by the Soros Centers for Contemporary Art. In the early 2000s, prior to Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania entering into the European Union, EU institutions likewise funded socially-conscious public art in the region. Today, socially engaged art is characterised by the proliferation of independent and often self-funded artists’ initiatives in cities such as Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest.
Focusing on the relationships between art, social capital and civil society, Galliera employs sociological and political theories to reveal that, while social capital is generally considered a mechanism of exclusion in the West, in post-socialist contexts it has been leveraged by artists and curators as a vital means of communication and action.”
Publisher I.B. Tauris, London/New York, 2017
ISBN 9781784537135, 1784537136
xx+361 pages
Review: Denisa Tomkova (ARTMargins, 2018).
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