Mary Jane Jacob, Michelle Grabner (eds.): The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists (2010)

The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist’s studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever since Andy Warhol declared his art space a “factory,” artists have begun to envision themselves as the leaders of production teams, and their sense of what it means to be in the studio has altered just as dramatically as their practices.

The Studio Reader pulls back the curtain from the art world to reveal the real activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist’s practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This forward-thinking anthology features an all-star array of contributors, ranging from Svetlana Alpers, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Storr to Daniel Buren, Carolee Schneemann, and Buzz Spector, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually—at the center of an art world that careens across institutions, markets, and disciplines. A companion for anyone engaged with the spectacular sites of art at its making, The Studio Reader reconsiders this crucial space as an actual way of being that illuminates our understanding of both artists and the world they inhabit.

Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2010
ISBN 0226389618, 9780226389615
390 pages

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František Kalivoda (ed.): Výstava László Moholy-Nagy, Brno, catalogue (1965) [Czech, English, German]

Exhibition of the works of Moholy-Nagy was held from October 10 to November 7, 1965, at the House of Arts in Brno, Czechoslovakia, on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1895-1965) from the material of his friend from Brno, architect František Kalivoda.

The catalogue includes an essay by Kalivoda (in Czech), along with its shortened English and German versions, a photograph of Moholy by Siegfried Giedion (1933), reproductions of three of Moholy’s works, reviews of Moholy’s 1935 Brno exhibition by Jaroslav Svrček, František Povolný, Eugen Dostál, Jaroslav Kopa (in Czech), and Alfred Wosyka (in German), and 4-page Telehor visual culture magazine prospect (1937).

Publisher The House of Arts, Brno, October 1965
24 pages

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Moholy-Nagy at Monoskop wiki

Flusser’s View on Art: MECAD Online Seminar (2004)

The Vilém Flusser seminar took place in 2004 and was a cooperation between MECAD, Barcelona, and the _Vilém_Flusser_Archive. Presented was a text selection of Flusser’s writings on art. The seminar included also a presentation by Silvia Wagnermaier and a reflection text on Flusser’s theory by Siegfried Zielinski.

via _Vilém_Flusser_Archive

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