Alfred H. Barr Jr. (ed.): Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism (1936)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · art, dada, surrealism
“The second of a series of exhibitions planned to present … the principal movements of modern art. The first of these, Cubism and Abstract Art, was held at the MoMA in the spring of 1936.”-
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936
248 pages
via MoMA
Second edition, revised and enlarged
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1937
294 pages
via MoMA
Publisher (incl. master checklist and press releases)
Ephemera from the exhibition
WorldCat (1st ed.)
WorldCat (2nd ed.)
1st ed.: PDF (43 MB)
2nd ed.: PDF (55 MB)
Chuck Welch (ed.): Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology (1995)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, artists book, computer art, dada, fluxus, internet, mail art, network art, networks, visual poetry, zine culture
“This book is the first university press publication in academia to explore the historical roots, aesthetics and new directions in mail art. The essays of Eternal Network were written and assembled during the early 1990s by mail artist, writer, and curator, Chuck Welch. The edition contains forty illustrated chapters surveying an international community whose mailboxes and computers were a proto internet bridging the analog and digital world of art and communication. Eternal Network includes numerous photographs of mailed artifacts, performance events, congresses, stampsheets, posters, collages, artists’ books, visual poetry, computer art, mail art projects, zines, copy art and rubber-stamped images.
The book is divided into six parts: Networking Origins, Open Aesthetics, New Directions, Interconnection of Worlds, Communication Issues and Ethereal Realms. Appendixes include mailing addresses from the 1990s, mail art exhibitions, a listing and location of over 350 underground mail art magazines and a comprehensive record of public and private international mail art archives. The late Judith Hoffberg, founder of Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) and editor of Umbrella Magazine, wrote an astute and prophetic review of Eternal Network in March 1995. “Some might think that this is the last gasp of a paper-orientated group of artists, but it is more a testament to the future of alternative art and the role of artists as networker”.”
With a Foreword by Ken Friedman
Publisher University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 1995
ISBN 1895176271, 9781895176278
xxiii+304 pages
via Chuck Welch, (2)
PDF (147 MB)
Comments (2)Patrizia C. McBride: The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany (2016)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art history, avant-garde, constructivism, dada, film, montage, narrative, neue sachlichkeit, photography, photomontage, weimar republic
“The Chatter of the Visible examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency and continuity, McBride offers an historicized reappraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it—a means for thinking in narrative textures exceeding constraints imposed by “flat” print media (especially the novel and other literary genres).
McBride’s contribution to the conversation around Weimar-era montage is in her situation of the form of the work as a discursive practice in its own right, which affords humans a new way to negotiate temporality; as a particular mode of thinking that productively relates the particular to the universal; or as a culturally specific form of cognition.”
Publisher University of Michigan Press, 2016
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0
ISBN 9780472053032, 0472053035
x+236 pages