Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation

Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation

Author: Florencia Bazzano-Nelson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1351560107

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Visually appealing, conceptually startling, and intellectually engaging-these phrases aptly describe the art of Liliana Porter. Florencia Bazzano-Nelson's study focuses on the principal theme in the Argentine-born artist's work since the 1970s: her playful but subversive dismantling of the limits that separate everyday reality from the world of illusion and simulacra. Over the years, Porter's own evolving interest in perception lead the author to explore a series of interconnected and timely issues in her artistic production, such as the representative function of art, the structural links between art and language, and the witty re-signification of the art-historical images and mass-produced kitsch figurines she has so often featured in her art. Strongly founded in critical theory, Bazzano-Nelson's approach considers Porter's art as the site of conceptually exciting dialogues with Jorge Luis Borges, Ren?agritte, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard. Her carefully crafted interdisciplinary analysis not only combines art-historical, literary, and theoretical perspectives but also addresses the artist's work in different media, such as printmaking, conceptual art, photography, and film.


Art Museums of Latin America

Art Museums of Latin America

Author: Michele Greet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1351777904

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Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments.


Artists Respond

Artists Respond

Author: Melissa Ho

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0691191182

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"Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019."


Nancy Spero, Encounters

Nancy Spero, Encounters

Author: Joanna S. Walker

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781409420439

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An original and valuable intervention in the fast-growing field of feminist and new art histories, Nancy Spero, Encounters offers a sophisticated interpretation of the work of a highly original and under-represented woman artist. The study proposes a new model of comparatism within the field of visual studies, mirroring and complementing Spero's dialogic manner of working. Spero's encounters with the work of Ana Mendieta, H.D., Isadora Duncan and others are examined.


Liliana Porter

Liliana Porter

Author: Adriana Gallo

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13:

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Presentación / Enrique Aguerre, Hans-Michael Herzog -- Introducción / Adriana Gallo -- Liliana Porter: selección de obra temprana y una reflexión desde el presente -- Presentation / Enrique Aguerre, Hans-Michael Herzog -- Introduction / Adriana Gallo -- Liliana Porter: a selection of early work and a reflection from the present.


Being Watched

Being Watched

Author: Carrie Lambert-Beatty

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2011-02-25

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0262516071

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How Yvonne Rainer's art shaped new ways of watching as well as performing; how it connected 1960s avant-garde art to politics and activism. In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body—stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie Lambert-Beatty argues in Being Watched that the crucial site of Rainer's interventions in the 1960s was less the body of the performer than the eye of the viewer—or rather, the body as offered to the eye. Rainer's art, Lambert-Beatty writes, is structured by a peculiar tension between the body and its display. Through close readings of Rainer's works of the 1960s—from the often-discussed dance Trio A to lesser-known Vietnam war-era protest dances—Lambert-Beatty explores how these performances embodied what Rainer called “the seeing difficulty.” (As Rainer said: “Dance is hard to see.”) Viewed from this perspective, Rainer's work becomes a bridge between key episodes in postwar art. Lambert-Beatty shows how Rainer's art (and related performance work in Happenings, Fluxus, and Judson Dance Theater) connects with the transformation of the subject-object relation in minimalism and with emerging feminist discourse on the political implications of the objectifying gaze. In a spectacle-soaked era, moreover—when images of war played nightly on the television news—Rainer's work engaged the habits of viewing formed in mass-media America, linking avant-garde art and the wider culture of the 1960s. Rainer is significant, argues Lambert-Beatty, not only as a choreographer, but as a sculptor of spectatorship.


Re-aligning Vision

Re-aligning Vision

Author: Mari Carmen Ramírez

Publisher: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery University of Texas

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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