Urging a grassroots style based on activist engagement, entrepreneurship, design, and more, this book offers opposing perspectives on independent, progressive cultural production stemming from small initiatives. Similar to a pamphlet or a bundle of essays, it considers the formal frameworks and cultures of an independent and truthful undercurrent to move upwards. The book offers no evidence but shares experiences and perspectives with analytical support, which equally brings a rhetorical styl...

Macht?... Aan welk volk?!Jonas Staal, onder redactie van Vincent W.J. van Gerven OeiDeze Nederlandstalige publicatie is een verzameling hedendaagse pamflettische teksten en manifesten rondom het verzamelde beeldende werk van beeldend kunstenaar Jonas Staal (1981). Het werk van Staal, waarin de relatie tussen kunst, politiek en ideologie centraal staat, heeft in de publicatie een platformfunctie voor een dialoog met een selectie internationale auteurs die zich nadrukkelijk bezig hebben gehoude...

Most of Marc Boumeester's thinking falls under affect theory, a philosophy of a new generation, which in its turn is fueled by Deleuzian scholarship. Boumeester formulates new and contemporary concepts that can be put into action in art and design education through an operational style called "intensive thinking". In the book, many interesting examples of educational programmes and works of art are accompanied by images relating to how this theoretical approach can be applied in art and desig...

Over the past 30 years, the rise of art as research has brought theory to the center of art education. Out of Theory: Relational Ecologies of Theory and Practice in the Arts explores how theory can be approached in the arts and its evolving connections with other disciplines. The first part examines the dynamic relationship between theory and practice; the second presents outcomes from Polyphonic Landscapes, an artistic research project that treats theory as practice. It asks: What is a lands...

Interrupting the City explores the ways in which artistic practices and interventions constitute the public sphere. To interrupt the city (be it digitally or materially) means to arrest the flow or circulation that the city consists of. The tactics by which this interruption is achieved may vary, ranging from a media offensive to riots in the streets, but each and every time these activities affect the public sphere, also make the public sphere. Thus, the public domain is constituted by a com...

A new, innovative introduction to the story of contemporary art, from the 1970s to today. Part of the bestselling The Short Story of series.

The Short Story of Contemporary Art is a must-read introduction to this exciting and important period, from bestselling author and art historian Susie Hodge.

This fascinating pocket guide explains the how, why and when of contemporary art - who introduced certain techniques or genres, and why these matter.

Simply constructed, the book explores 40 key wor...

In MEESTERWERKEN MEESTERZETTEN wordt niet zozeer uitgegaan van het idee of concept 'meesterwerk', maar van kunstwerken die steeds aan de vraag onderworpen worden: 'wat is er IN het kunstwerk gaande dat dit al dan niet tot een meesterwerk of meesterzet maakt?' De gekozen werken zijn afkomstig uit het gebied van de beeldende kunst en dat van de muziek, en uit diverse tijden en culturen. Deze diversiteit geeft het boek mede zijn reikwijdte. Thema's die aan bod komen zijn o.a.: de cultus van het ...

Walking is as much a cultural practice as it is an embodied experience. The contributions in this book highlight the interrelations between bodies, knowledges, places, affects, and other materialities through phenomenological, artistic, and methodological lenses. Walking is explored as a relational practice situated in specific landscapes – it connects different cultural practices, holds material-semiotic performativity, and always involves an interweaving of (geo)political territories and ...