Katalin Cseh-Varga, Adam Czirak (eds.): Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe (2018)
Filed under book | Tags: · art history, censorship, communism, east-central europe, eastern europe, event, happening, mail art, nudity, performance, performance art, protest, public sphere, sexuality, socialism, southeastern europe, theatre, underground
“This is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this work assumed under censorial circumstances.
The artistic networks of Yugoslavia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Czechoslovakia are discussed with a particular focus on the discourses that shaped artistic practice at the time, drawing on the methods of Performance Studies and Media Studies as well as more familiar reference points from art history and area studies.”
Publisher Routledge, New York & London, 2018
ISBN 9781138723276, 1138723274
xii+263 pages
Interview with editors (ARTMargins, 2014)
Comment (0)Madonna: Sex (1992)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · body, nudity, photography, popular culture, sex, sexuality
One of the most controversial books of the 1990s, now long out of print. Wikipedia has an extensive article about its production, reception and legacy. See also a recent, critical comment on the book by Isabella Rossellini.
Photographed by Steven Meisel
Art directed by Fabien Baron
Edited by Glenn O’Brien
Produced by Callaway
Publisher Warner Books, New York, October 1992
ISBN 0446517321
128 pages
PDF (10 MB)
Comment (0)Anne Hollander: Seeing Through Clothes (1978)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, beauty, body, clothing, costume, fashion, mirror, nudity, painting, photography, sculpture, style
“Seeing Through Clothes is a vivid pictorial history of the changing images of ourselves in fashion. From classical Greek sculpture through the photographs of Avedon, Anne Hollander shows us how art has determined, rather than reflected, our concept of beauty and fashion. She examines the evolution of underclothes, hair as a sexual symbol, the difference between ‘naked’ and ‘nude,’ the role of black clothing, the meaning of mirror images, and how our concept of the perfect figure changes, and thus has altered fashion through the ages.” (from the back cover)
Publisher Avon Books, New York, 1978
ISBN 0380487772
504 pages
Review (Kirkus Reviews, n.d.)
Commentary (Dan Piepenbring, The Paris Review, 2014)
Commentary (Valerie Steele, Artforum, 2014)
PDF (86 MB, no OCR)
PDF (38 MB, OCR’d version via Marcell Mars added on 2014-11-30)