IRWIN (ed.): State in Time (2014)
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“The NSK State in Time emerged in 1992, evolving in the context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the transformation Neue Slowenische Kunst. Existing both as an artwork and a social formation, a state that encompasses all time but holding no territory, the NSK State in Time has for two decades pushed the boundaries of artistic and political practice. This volume collects together, for the first time, analyses of the NSK State in Time including its relationship with the changing context of Eastern Europe, the connection between aesthetics and the state, the rise of NSK folk art, and documents the First NSK Citizen’s Congress in 2010.”
Includes essays by Inke Arns, Huang Chien-Hung, Eda Čufer, Marina Gržinić, Irwin, Tomaz Mastnak, Viktor Misiano, Alexei Monroe, Ian Parker, Avi Pitchon, Stevphen Shukaitis, Slavoj Žižek, and Jonah Westerman.
Publisher Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe / New York / Port Watson, 2014
Open Access
ISBN 9781570272769
178 pages
Art Post-Internet: Information/Data (2014)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · aesthetics, art, data, internet, internet art, painting, post internet, sculpture, video, video art, web
A PDF catalogue accompanying the exhibition Art Post-Internet, curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing during spring 2014. Includes two essays written by the curators, responses to a questionnaire on the nature of the term “post-internet,” and documentation of the works.
Edited by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham
Designed by PWR Studio, Berlin
Published in October 2014
134 pages
PDF (18 MB, updated on 2021-5-19)
Comment (0)Edward Robert de Zurko: Origins of Functionalist Theory (1957)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, architecture, art, beauty, functionalism, history of architecture, machine, nature, rationalism, theory
“The main purpose of this book is to study the idea of functionalism from a historical point of view. The research media are the literary sources of functionalism. Early functionalist trends in writings on architecture shall be analyzed and compared with each other and with modern interpretations of the concept. By means of this essentially semantic study I hope to demonstrate (1) the antiquity of functionalist ideas, especially the tendency to connect ideas of use with ideas of beauty; (2) the variety of guises assumed by this type of theory; and (3) the recurrent ideas which have generally characterized functionalist theory.” (from the Introduction)
Publisher Columbia University Press, 1957
265 pages
via Charles
PDF (9 MB)
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