Francesco Careri: Walkscapes: El andar como práctica estética / Walking as an Aesthetic Practice (2002) [Spanish/English]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art history, city, dada, land art, landscape, lettrism, minimal art, nomadism, situationists
Walkscapes deals with strolling as an architecture of landscape. Walking as an autonomous form of art, a primary act in the symbolic transformation of the territory, an aesthetic instrument of knowledge and a physical transformation of the “negotiated” space, which is converted into an urban intervention. From primitive nomadism to Dada and Surrealism, from the Lettrist to the Situationist International, and from Minimalism to Land Art, this book narrates the perception of landscape through a history of the traversed city.
With an Introduction by Gilles Tiberghien
English translation: Steve Piccolo, Paul Hammond
Publisher Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2002
Land&Scape series
ISBN 8425218411
205 pages
PDF (removed on 2017-4-1 upon request of the publisher)
Comment (0)Nick Kaye: Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · architecture, art, art history, body art, land art, performance, performance art, site-specific art
“Site Specific Art traces the historical antecedents of today’s installation and performance art, while also assembling a documentation of contemporary practice around the world.
The book is divided into individual analyses of the themes of space, materials, site, and frames. These are interspersed by specially commissioned documentary artworks from practitioners and artists working today. The artistic processes involved are demonstrated through new articles from Meredith Monk, Station House Opera, Brith Gof, Forced Entertainment, and Michelangelo Pistoletto.”
Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415185599, 9780415185592
238 pages
PDF (updated 2011-9-3)
Comments (2)John Armitage (ed.): Virilio Live: Selected Interviews (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, cultural theory, cyberwar, interview, land art, new media, philosophy, speed, technoculture
“Edited by one of the leading Virilio authority’s, this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio’s work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and `speed-space’, `chronopolitics’, art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and `hypermodernism’, the time of the trajectory and the `information bomb’. His thoughts on Foucault, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, the performance artist Stelarc, the Persian War and the Kosovo War, are also gathered together.”
Publisher Sage, 2001
ISBN 0761968601, 9780761968603
218 pages
PDF (updated on 2020-6-3)
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