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KuroDalaiJee | Anarchy of the Body

KuroDalaiJee | Anarchy of the Body
In 'Anarchy of the Body', art historian KuroDalaiJee sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s.

Sarah Hegenbart | From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso

Sarah Hegenbart | From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso

Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso.

Olga Smith | Contemporary Photography in France

Olga Smith | Contemporary Photography in France
In Contemporary Photography in France author Olga Smith explores the history of photography in France from the 1970s to the present day and sets photographic practices in contemporary art, documentary, photojournalism, and fashion in dialogue with French philosophy.

Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse | When Art Isn’t Real

Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse | When Art Isn’t Real

The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. When Art Isn’t Real deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. Authors Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse share some insights from behind the scenes and talk about what their project entails.

Hilde Van Gelder | Ground Sea

Hilde Van Gelder | Ground Sea

Imagine a world in which every individual has the fundamental right to be reborn. This vain dream haunts Ground Sea, Hilde Van Gelder's associative travelogue.

 

Stel je een wereld voor waarin elk individu het fundamentele recht heeft om herboren te worden. Deze ijdele droom waart rond in Ground Sea, Hilde Van Gelder's associatief reisverslag.

Jo Shaw | The Art of Being Dangerous

Jo Shaw | The Art of Being Dangerous
The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what it means to be a dangerous woman.

Alexandra Moschovi | A Gust of Photo-Philia

Alexandra Moschovi | A Gust of Photo-Philia
In her book A Gust of Photo-Philia Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in and as contemporary art in the art museum.

Simon Dell | The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary

Simon Dell | The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary
"It was very difficult to find a way of writing about the different perspectives of France and Africa, of Africans in France and the French in A...

Matthias De Groof | Lumumba in the Arts

Matthias De Groof | Lumumba in the Arts
"Art reminds us of the impossibility of his death and leaves us horrified every time one remembers the tragedy." It is no coincidence that a his...

Jorge Ribalta | Renaissance. Scenes of Industrial Reconversion in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Coalfield

Jorge Ribalta | Renaissance. Scenes of Industrial Reconversion in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Coalfield
 Photo by Anna Oswaldo Cruz Lehner "Industrial environments can provide the intense physical/emotional experience of cathedrals." In the lates...

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