Xilitla
Xilitla

Author: Melanie Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9782954282404

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Xilitla is the name of a 35 mm film that involves locations in the town of Xilitla (La Huasteca), a place located, a seductive and decadent setting for nature's exuberance in Mexican landscape and presented by visual artist Melanie Smith (b. UK 1965, has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1989) in collaboration with Rafael Ortega at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. It is a piece that combines the very different media of video and painting, in a combination rare among the artist's works, Smith has performed in it a "dismantling [of] the frame through conceptual plays on repetition and difference, through which her production is displaced from painting toward the potential to 'unframe' the frame." This book records the filmic event, taking the reader on a tour of the fantastical, surrealistic ruins of the "English garden" constructed by the British writer and poet Edward James (1907-1984).

Melanie Smith: Xilitla
Melanie Smith: Xilitla

Author: Melanie Smith

Publisher: Rm

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788415118442

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Xilitla is the name of a 35 mm film that involves locations in the town of Xilitla (La Huasteca), a place located, a seductive and decadent setting for nature's exuberance in Mexican landscape and presented by visual artist Melanie Smith (b. UK 1965, has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1989) in collaboration with Rafael Ortega at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. It is a piece that combines the very different media of video and painting, in a combination rare among the artist's works, Smith has performed in it a "dismantling [of] the frame through conceptual plays on repetition and difference, through which her production is displaced from painting toward the potential to 'unframe' the frame." This book records the filmic event, taking the reader on a tour of the fantastical, surrealistic ruins of the "English garden" constructed by the British writer and poet Edward James (1907-1984).

Materiality and Architecture
Materiality and Architecture

Author: Sandra Karina Loschke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1317555864

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Once regarded a secondary consideration, in recent years, materiality has emerged as a powerful concept in architectural discourse and practice. Prompted in part by developments in digital fabrication and digital science, the impact of materiality on design and practice is being widely reassessed and reimagined. Materiality and Architecture extends architectural thinking beyond the confines of current design literatures to explore conceptions of materiality across the field of architecture. Fourteen international contributors use elucidate the problems and possibilities of materiality-based approaches in architecture from interdisciplinary perspectives. The book includes contributions from the professions of architecture, art, architectural history, theory and philosophy, including essays from Gernot Böhme, Jonathan Hill and Philip Ursprung. Important 'immaterial' aspects such as presentation, agency, ecology and concept are examined, deepening our understanding of materiality’s role in architectural processes, the production of cultural identities, the pursuit of political agendas, and the staging of everyday environments and atmospheres. In-depth illustrated case studies examine works by Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, and Lacaton & Vassal, interspersed with visual essays and interviews with architects such as MVRDV providing a direct connection to practice. Materiality and Architecture is an important read for researchers and students with an interest in architectural theory and related fields such as art, art history, or visual and cultural studies.

Melanie Smith
Melanie Smith

Author: Melanie Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788475069852

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Mexico participates in the artistic exchange offered by the 54th Venice Biennale with the work of Melanie Smith, who presentes three video pieces grouped together under the title "Red Square Impossible Pink", a concept that brings together three of her most recent works: "Aztec Stadium", "Xilitla" and "Bulto". The first of these is the visual document of an action arried out in the eponymous stadium, in which the artist elaborates a visual reflection on the idea of the faterland and the caos that accompanies revolutions. The second, "Xilita", is an experimental film shot in 35mm that explores the multiple meanings that a near mythical space in Mexico -a surrealist garden built in the middle of the Huasteca Potosina by the Englishman Edward James- holds today. Finally, "Bulto" is a piece originally commissioned by the Lima Art Museum, in which a bundle appears in different public spaces, participating in the widest variety of the city's dynamics.

Melanie Smith
Melanie Smith

Author: TANYA. ADELE GREELEY BARSON (ROBIN.)

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9788492505982

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Melanie Smith: Farce and Artifice is the publication that takes up the idea of the exhibition organised by the MACBA, jointly with the MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo and UNAM, in Mexico City, and the Museo Amparo, in Puebla, Mexico. It is the largest organised to date in Europe about the work of an artist who defies easy classification, born in England (Poole, 1965) but active on the Mexican art scene since the nineties.

Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures
Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures

Author: Melanie Smith

Publisher: Turner/A&r Press/Coleccion Jumex

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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The English-born artist Melanie Smith has been involved in the Mexican art scene since the late 1980s, and Spiral City & Other Vicarious Pleasures is her first significant monograph--published in conjunction with the artist's 2006 retrospective exhibition at Mexico City's University Museum of Sciences and Arts, commonly known as MUCA. This volume also serves as an introduction to the various media that Smith has been exploring since her arrival in Mexico two decades ago. It includes video, photography, installation and painting. Spiral City is a supersaturated project that provides the reader with visual and written information without ever falling into the predictable patterns of a traditional retrospective catalogue. With texts by Dawn Ades, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Eduardo Abaroa, and a written conversation between David Batchelor and the artist.

Art and Architecture in Mexico
Art and Architecture in Mexico

Author: James Oles

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500204063

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“A lucid—at times, even poetic—summary of five hundred years of Mexican art. The illustrated works of art are well-chosen and beautifully integrated into Oles’s text. Indeed, it feels as if his words emanate from the art itself.” –Donna Pierce, Denver Art Museum This new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, and photographs. He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but also discusses less familiar figures in history and landscape painting, muralism, and conceptual art. The story of Mexican art is set in its rich historical context by the book’s treatment of political and social change. The author draws on recent scholarship to examine crucial issues of race, class, and gender, including the work of indigenous artists during the colonial period, and of women artists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Throughout, Oles shows how Mexican artists participated in local and international developments. He considers both native and foreign-born artists, from Baroque architects to kinetic sculptors, and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the global art scene of the last five centuries.

Kati Horna
Kati Horna

Author: Kati Horna

Publisher: Rm

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788415118732

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"On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of photographer Kati Horna, the Museo Amparo in Puebla has organized an exhibition of her work, scheduled to travel later to the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona. The catalogue-book of the exhibition, published under a joint imprint with Editorial RM, represents a recognition of Horna's photographic career and is the first adequate single-volume treatment of her work. The book traces Kati Horna's steps from Budapest to Paris, Spain, and Mexico, following the career of a cosmopolitan figure in the twentieth-century avant-garde. It contains essays by Péter Baki, Jean-François Chevrier, Estrella de Diego, Juan Manuel Bonet, and José Antonio Rodríguez, as well as a chronology of Horna's life drawn up by Ángeles Alonso, a text by her daughter Norah Horna, and documentary material from her personal archive. The reproductions in the book, representative of all the genres practiced by Kati Horna, include hitherto unpublished images"--Publisher's website.

A Companion to Dada and Surrealism
A Companion to Dada and Surrealism

Author: David Hopkins

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1119238226

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This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres

Artists' Film (World of Art)
Artists' Film (World of Art)

Author: David Curtis

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0500776784

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Artists’ Film offers a lucid, accessible account of artists’ unique contribution to the art of the moving image in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. International in scope and accessibly written by a renowned authority on the subject, Artists’ Film is an introductory guide to the exciting and expanding field of artists’ film and an alternative history of the moving image, chronicling artists’ ever-evolving fascination with filmmaking from the early twentieth century to now. From early pioneers to key artists of today, writer and curator David Curtis offers a vivid account of the many creators who have been inspired by the cinematic medium and who have felt compelled to interpret and respond to it in their own way. In doing so, Curtis discusses these artists’ widely differing achievements, aspirations, theories, and approaches. Featuring over four hundred international moving-image makers and drawing on examples from across the arts, including experimental film, video, installation, and multimedia, this generously illustrated account offers an incomparable introduction to this continually evolving art form. A perfect read for anyone with an interest in the intersection of contemporary art and film.