Charles Harrison, Paul Wood (eds.): Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (1992) [English, French]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1900s, abstract art, abstraction, aesthetics, art, art history, art theory, autonomy, avant-garde, beauty, capitalism, colour, communism, conceptual art, constructivism, cubism, dada, expressionism, formalism, futurism, happening, impressionism, institutional critique, language, machine, marxism, minimal art, modernism, postmodern, poststructuralism, productivism, psychoanalysis, realism, representation, revolution, romanticism, socialism, structuralism, surrealism, symbolism
“This volume provides comprehensive representation of the theories, which underpinned developments in the visual arts during the twentieth century. As well as writings by artists, the anthology includes texts by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures. The content is structured into eight broadly chronological sections, starting with the legacy of symbolism and concluding with contemporary debates about the postmodern.”
Publisher Blackwell, 1992
Reprinted 1999
ISBN 0631165754, 978-0631165750
1220 pages
Review: Patricia Railing (Art Book, 2004).
Art in Theory 1900-1990 (English, 1992, 13 MB, updated on 2015-9-5)
Art en théorie 1900-1990 (French, 1997, 24 MB, added on 2016-6-26)
Joseph Nechvatal: Immersive Ideals / Critical Distances. A Study of the Affinity Between Artistic Ideologies Based in Virtual Reality and Previous Immersive Idioms (1999)
Filed under thesis | Tags: · aesthetics, architecture, art history, immersion, philosophy of art, technology, virtual reality
This thesis researches into the ideals behind Virtual Reality technology (and its central property of total-immersion) by looking at VR through the prism of a philosophy of visual art. Its conclusive understanding is achieved through a broad formulation of an aesthetic theory of immersive consciousness (indicative of an emerging immersive culture) by joining choice immersive examples of simulacra technology into mental connections with relevant examples culled from the histories of art, architecture, information-technology, sex, myth, space, consciousness and philosophy.
Keywords: architecture| Conceptual Art | consciousness | information-technology | myth | sex | space | virtual reality
Written in candidacy for a Ph.D. at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), University of Wales College, Newport, Wales, U. K.
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Later published as a book (2009)
Nicolas Bourriaud: Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World (2002–) [EN, ES, CZ, HU, RO, BR-PT]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1990s, aesthetics, art history, art theory, contemporary art
“In this book, French writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud discusses how, since the early nineties, an ever increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interpret, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products.
This art of postproduction seems to respond to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age, which is characterized by an increase in the supply of works and the art world’s annexation of forms ignored or disdained until now.”
First published in French in 2002.
Translated by Jeanine Herman
Publisher Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2002
Second edition, with a new preface, August 2005
ISBN 0974568899
96 pages
Review: Hal Foster (London Review of Books, 2003).
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Postproduction (English, trans. Jeanine Herman, 2005, updated on 2023-7-21)
Postproducción (Spanish, trans. Silvio Mattoni, 2004, added on 2023-7-21)
Postprodukce (Czech, trans. Petr Turek, 2004, added on 2014-2-25)
Utómunkálatok (Hungarian, trans. Jancsó Júlia, 2007, 55 MB, no OCR, updated on 2023-7-21)
Postproducţie (Romanian, trans. Cristian Nae, 2007, 56 MB, added on 2024-2-20)
Postprodukce (BR-Portuguese, trans. Denise Bottmann, 2009, added on 2024-2-20)