"Interviews with leading thinkers on the crisis of violence in contemporary politics, history, media, and culture.Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics ..."
"With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate ,Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, K ..."
"In Context: The Portrait in Contemporary Photographic Practice brings together conceptual artists whose practices address an underlying sociopolitical agenda as well as photojournalists and social documentarians who utilize conceptual strategies to subjectively shape the portraits they create."
"Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice, and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative venture of cultural institutions in San Diego and Tijuana, inSITE commissions new work by artists from the Americas that responds to the extraordinary context of these two inextricably linked bor ..."
"The history of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is one that is scarred by incomprehensibly violent events with far-reaching effects. It is an era of world wars, totalitarian mass terror, social and ethnic cleansing, revolutions, civil wars, radical uprootings, and terrorism. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, In the Aftermath of Trauma: Contemporary Video Ins ..."
"Alfredo Jaar's immersive site-specific installation in the Chilean pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, "Venezia Venezia" is a call to examine how today's culture, composed of increasingly complex global networks, can be adequately represented on a world stage. This publication features essays by 18 prominent, international authors from different fields of work and thought, including political and philosophical thinkers, critics, theor ..."
"Since she claimed to revive “Victorian values" and graciously accepted
comparison with Queen Victoria, I sought inspiration from Pre-Raphaelite frames
in the Tate Gallery's nineteenth-century painting collection. One aspect of Taking
Stock is still quite "unfinished”: the role of the Saatchi brothers. Maurice Saatchi
has been elevated to the House of Lords and, as a former cochairman of the
party, he is still involved with Tory pol ..."
"Other People Think is a project by Alfredo Jaar in homage to John Cage on the occasion of the 2012 John Cage Centennial. The project is now translated to a bilingual edition, Portuguese-Spanish. Written in 1927, Other People Think was delivered by Cage at the Hollywood Bowl where (then a student at Los Angeles High School) he won the Southern California Oratorical Contest. Although Cage was only 15 years old at the time, his essay frame ..."
"'Touched' traverses topical issues that surrounded and informed the making and experience of the 6th Liverpool Biennial in 2010; from fidgeting to the unnameable image of war, to religion and sacrilege."
Jack Pierson All of a Sudden by AlfredoJaar, Jack Pierson Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1995 by Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap) ISBN-13: 978-1-881616-60-3, ISBN: 1-881616-60-6
"A project by Alfredo Jaar Text originally published in Tel Quel No 52, Paris Winter 1972, with the original title: Enquete sur une image Letter to Jane was originally published in 1972 by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, in the French avant-garde literary magazine Tel Quel. The essay was written as a letter to Jane Fonda in which Godard and Gorin reference an image of the actress from the article "Retour de Hanoi" (Returning from ..."
"A project by Alfredo Jaar Text originally published in Tel Quel No 52, Paris Winter 1972, with the original title: Enquete sur une image. Letter to Jane was originally published in 1972 by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, in the French avant-garde literary magazine Tel Quel. The essay was written as a letter to Jane Fonda in which Godard and Gorin reference an image of the actress from the article "Retour de Hanoi" (Returning from ..."
"Widely regarded as one of the world?s most politically engaging and poetic artists, Alfredo Jaar addresses human trauma and the politics of image-making, creating visually and emotionally stunning works. 0Trained as a filmmaker and ..."
"The Lament of the Images situates Jaar's recent large-scale installations from theRwanda series (including Let There Be Light, Field, Road, Cloud, and The Eyes ..."
AlfredoJaar Two or Three Things I Imagine About Them by AlfredoJaar, Kunstnernes Hus Hardcover, 44 Pages, Published 1992 by Whitechapel Art Gallery., London. ISBN-13: 978-0-85488-096-6, ISBN: 0-85488-096-8
"Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. The installation first addresses the crime against humanity committed by industrialized countries dumping their toxic wastes in Nigeria."
"Alfredo Jaar's immersive site-specific installation in the Chilean pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, "Venezia Venezia" is a call to examine how today's culture, composed of increasingly complex global networks, can be adequately represented on a world stage.This publication features essays by 18 prominent, international authors from different fields of work and thought, including political and philosophical thinkers, critics, theori ..."