Charles A. Csuri: In Search of Meaning, 1948-2000, catalogue (2000)

“This catalogue was published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition held at Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD). Richard Aschenbrand, Professor and Dean of Visual Communications at the time, curated the show. The show featured 87 works of art and included many of Csuri’s early oil paintings, pop art sculptures and computer art.”

Organized by Columbus College of Art & Design, 2000
16 pages

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Camilla Gray: The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863-1922 (1962–) [EN, SC]

When the original edition of this book was published, John Russell hailed it as a ‘massive contribution to our knowledge of one of the most fascinating and mysterious episodes in the history of modern art.’ It still remains the most compact survey of sixty years of creative dynamic activity that profoundly influenced the progress of Western art and architecture.

Publisher Thames and Hudson, 1962, 1970
Revised and enlarged edition by Marian Burleigh-Motley, 1986
ISBN 0500202079, 9780500202074
324 pages

Reviews: Wladimir Weidlé (Slavic Review 1963), Vyacheslav Zavalishin (Russian Review 1963), Nina Juviler (Slavic and East European Journal 1964).

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PDF (1970 US edition, 45 MB; added on 2014-3-2)
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Andrew Benjamin: Writing Art and Architecture (2010)

“In his new book, the philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture, painting and writing. Drawing predominantly on a European tradition of modern philosophical criticism running from the German Romantics through Walter Benjamin and beyond, he offers a sequence of meditations on a diverse ensemble of works and themes: on the library and the house, on architectural theory, on Rachel Whiteread, Peter Eisenman, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Nielson, David Hawley, Terri Bird, Elizabeth Presa and others.

In Benjamin’s hands, criticism is bound up with judgment. Objects of criticism always become more than mere documents. These essays dissolve the prejudices that have determined our relation to aesthetic objects and to thought, releasing in their very care and attentiveness to the ‘objects themselves’ the unexpected potentialities such objects harbour. In his sensitivity to what he calls ‘the particularity of material events’, Benjamin’s writing comes to exemplify new possibilities for the contemporary practice of criticism itself.”

Publisher: Re.press, Melbourne, 1 October 2010
Transmission series
ISBN: 9780980668360 (pbk. with colour images)
ISBN-ebook: 9780980668377
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
170 pages

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