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Duet for Cannibals / druk 1
forms of cultural appropriation
2010 || Paperback || Raimond Chaves e.a. || Jap Sam Books
De publicatie Duet for Cannibals: Forms of Cultural Appropriation is gebaseerd op een film- en discussieprogramma in het Tropentheater te Amsterdam met werk van Nederlandse en internationale kunstenaars gecombineerd met hoogtepunten uit de filmcollectie van het Tropenmuseum.Het film-en discussie programma Duet for Cannibals (vernoemd naar de film van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en critica Susan Sontag uit 1969) stelt vraagstukken aan de orde over etnografie en antropologie in de hedendaagse ku...
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Art Residencies Reflected
Reclaiming time and space
2022 || Paperback || Pascal Gielen e.a. || Valiz
Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development, but also invaluable infrastructures for critical thinking and artistic experimentation, cross-cultural collaboration, interdisciplinary knowledge production, and site-specific research. The globalization process and the demands of the creative economy have had an impact on artist residencies. Ecological ...
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Art and Computation
2022 || Paperback || Miguel Carvalhais || V2_ Publishing
What is computational art? How does it involve us in unprecedented aesthetic relationships, making us part of works and even transforÂming them? This book looks at how computation causes an ontoloÂgical shift that turns dynamics, causality, and cognition into central components of art, artistic practices, and aesthetics. Computational art is more conceptual than perceptual; it is performative, experienÂtial, situated, experimental, creative, and intersubjective. ComputaÂtional art is unst...
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The Dwarf in the Chess Machine
Benjamin’s Hidden Doctrine
Paperback || Lieven de Cauter || nai010 uitgevers publishers
This thorough study on the work of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin exposes - in Benjamin’s own metaphor - the ‘dwarf of theology’ hidden in the machinery of his work, his own form of ‘historical materialism’. In doing so it unearths and explains his language theory, his art theory, his most cryptic baroque book, his philosophy of history, and, last but not least, his famous labyrinthine unfinished opus magnum on Paris, The Arcades project (the first philosophical book ...
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The Future of the New
Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration
2018 || Paperback || Thijs Lijster e.a. || Valiz
In The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration artists, theorists, and professionals working in the art field reflect on the role of the arts in a world that is speeding up and changing through joint forces of globalization, digitization, commodification, and financialization. Can artistic innovation still function as a source of critique? How do artists, theorists, and art organizations deal with the changing role of and discourse on innovation? Should we look ...
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Mix & Stir
New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from a Global Perspective
2021 || Paperback || Kitty Zijlmans e.a. || Valiz
Mix & Stir, this book’s aim is an endeavour to understand art as being a panhuman phenomenon of all times and cultures; to steer away from the persistent Eurocentric/Western-centric viewpoint towards a transcultural and transnational interconnected model of exchange and processes of interculturalization. Mix & Stir wants to expand this landscape by bringing to the fore new, recalcitrant, queer, idiosyncratic practices and discourses, theories and topics, methods and concerns that open up wa...
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A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands
Platforms, Policies, Technologies
2019 || Paperback || Marga van Mechelen e.a. || Jap Sam Books
This edited volume offers an in-depth exploration of Dutch media art from 1985 onwards from many different perspectives. Through early access to the Internet, state subsidies and dedicated institutions and festivals, a vivid counter-cultural environment and a cosmopolitan artistic and intellectual scene the Netherlands hold a unique position in regards to the development of media art.
Introduced by four chapters that retrace the main events and actors (governmental institutions, festivals an...
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Fundamentals of Art History
2021 || Paperback || Anne D'Alleva e.a. || BIS Publishers
This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course
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De onzichtbare schilder
2021 || Paperback || Jan de Heer e.a. || Vrije Uitgevers, De || met inkijkexemplaar
DE ONZICHTBARE SCHILDER
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Essayreeks The emancipated museum
Paperback || Steven ten Thije || Mondriaan Fonds
In 'The emancipated museum' the art historian and researcher Steven ten Thije engages in a personal inquiry into the importance of art museums in a society that is becoming ever more fragmented. In spite of the unprecedented success of museums in attracting masses of visitors, the future of the museum is uncertain. Museums may appear calm and self-assured to outsiders, but not even this noble showcase of art is immune to the cracks in society. The tensions between high and low, newcomer and n...