Alex Alberro (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Since the 1960s, Dan Graham's heterogeneous practice has touched on suchdisparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architecturaltheory; he has made videos, architectural models, closed-circuit installations, andglass pavilions. Graham, who came of age during the emergence of earth art, minimalism, and conceptualism, has situated his work on the borders between thesedifferent strains of contemporary practice. Although varying widely in subject andmedium, Graham's artwork and writings display a consistent interest inspectatorship, public-private relationships, and the constructed environment.Graham's extensive writings on his own work (collected in Rock My Religion andTwo-Way Mirror Power, both published by the MIT Press) have made him, by default, the primary interpreter of his own art. This October Files volume provides acounterweight, gathering key texts by critics and theorists that offer alternativeaccounts of Graham's art. The essays span thirty years and include hard-to-findtexts from exhibition catalogs and journals. The authors include such distinguishedtheorists, critics, and artists as Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Beatriz Colomina, Thierryde Duve, and Jeff Wall. A collection of essayson a key figure in postminimalist art, with texts spanning thirty years.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 161 pages. 11.25x9.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

145 pp.; 25.4 x 20.5 cm.; glue bound; other special feature[s]; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Issue 5 of Trans> edited by Sandra Antelo-Suarez. Essays include: "Performing Citizenship: Vivo Rio Counters Urban Violence," by George Yúdice; "Country Cousins: The Relative Peripheries in Contact," by Maria Lind; "Analogies and Confrontations: A Museography Polemologic?" by Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas; "The Poetics Project: A Special CD Project for Trans>" by Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler; "Serei A?" by Tungar; "Valentina's Paintings," by José Antonio Hernández Díez; "Continuation from the Representations of Violence in Issue 3&4," Moderator Rubén Gallo; "The Necessity of Revolt," by Julia Kristeva; "Intellectuals and Memoricide," by Juan Goytisolo; "Political Pop," by Luis Camnitzer; "Facing Territory," by Dan Cameron; "Oyvind Fahlström : He Burns Himself on Fires of Nine," by Maureen Sherlock; "Rafael Viñoly or the Problematics of the Late-Capitalist Architect," by Noah Chasin; "Alex Alberro in Conversation with Liisa Roberts," by Alex Alberro; "A Thing is a Thing is a Thing, Agnaldo Farias writes about María Teresa Hincapié," by Agnaldo Farias; "Reflections on Candice Breitz 'Rorschach Series'," by Octavio Zaya; "Ann-Sofi Sidén" by Sabine Russ; "Irán do Espírito Santo," by Félipe Chaimovich; "José Gabriel Fernández: Tauromachy and Maculature," by Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas; "The Ruined Map," by Matthew Ritchie and "Clandestine Installation II," by Roberto Obregón. Includes contributors biographies. Text in English and Spanish. Very Good. Light bumping of cover corners and rubbing of covers, otherwise Fine. Does not include audio CD. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders. …

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 161 pages. 11.25x9.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2009 Whitechapel Gallery paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: THE REVIVAL OF BEAUTY Dave Hickey Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty Kathleen Marie Higgins Whatever Happened to Beauty? A Response to Danto Elaine Scarry On Beauty and Being Just Wendy Steiner Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art Suzanne Perling Hudson Beauty and the Status of Contemporary Criticism Saul Ostrow The Eternal Problem of Beauty's Return Arthur C. Danto The Aesthetics of Brillo Boxes Alexander Alberro Beauty Knows No Pain Diarmuid Costello, Arthur C. Danto, Anna Dezeuze, Martin Donougho, Thierry de Duve, James Elkins, David Raskin, Dominic Willsdon, Richard Woodfield The Art Seminar CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS Theodor Adorno On the Concept of the Beautiful Jacques Derrida The Sans of the Pure Cut Griselda Pollock Woman as Sign: Psychoanalytic Readings Jay Bernstein Beauty and the Labour of Mourning Fredric Jameson Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity Thierry de Duve Kant after Duchamp Jason Gaiger Incidental and Integral Beauty: Duchamp, Danto and the Intractable Avant-Garde T.J. Clark Vulgarity Caroline A. Jones The Discourse of the Studio Meets the Technological Sublime John Roberts Replicants and Cartesians Mark Cousins The Ugly Mark Hutchinson Nausea: Encounters with Ugliness Simon O'Sullivan Art and the Political: Minor Literature, War Machines and the Production of Subjectivity POSITIONS Rosalind Krauss The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Robert Morris's Paradoxes Robert Smithson An Aesthetics of Disappointment Andy Warhol On Beauty Rasheed Araeen Cultural Imperialism: Observations on Cultural Situation in the Third World Gerhard Richter Notes Paul Wood Truth and Beauty: The Ruined Abstraction of Gerhard Richter Leon Golub and Nancy Spero Interview with Adrian Searle Agnes Martin Interview with Irving Sandler Alex Katz Interview with David Sylvester John Currin Interview with Robert Rosenblum Wendy Steiner On Marlene Dumas Art & Language On Painting Rudolf Sagmeister Endangered Beauty: On Gary Hume Christoph Grunenberg Attraction-Repulsion Machines: The Art of Jake and Dinos Chapman Vito Acconci Interview with Bryant Rousseau Leo Fitzmaurice Beauty (a list of possibilities).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition / First printing. Signed by Jerry N. Uelsmann on the title page. Maroon cloth. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. Archival clear jacket supplied. Jerry N. Uelsmann (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. No Jacket, As Issued. 64 pages. Slim, but super handsome hardcover monograph, bound in red cloth covered boards with an inset pastedown image on the front cover. Boldly signed, dated, and inscribed on the title page by the artist to the previous owner. No other markings are on the interior. Binding is tight and secure, with sharp edges and corners on the boards. Brilliant reproductions of many of the enigmatic artist's most evocative and surreal images. Inscribed by the Artist.…

Alberro, Alexander, Martha Gever, Miwon Kwon, and Carol Squiers. BARBARA KRUGER. Introduction by Hal Foster, text by the artist; 308 pages, hundreds of color and b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. New York, Rizzoli, 2010.

Paperback. Condition: New. This collection of critical essays examines distinctive moments of the Americas Society's visual art program and its impact on the formation of a Latin American market in the United States. Founded in 1965, the Americas Society has played a pivotal role in Latin American art, from Pre-Colombian to modernism. The book brings together a cross-cultural group of art historians and curators, including Alexander Alberro, Alexander Apà stal, Beverly Adams, Cecilia Brunson, Luis Camnitzer, Thomas Cummins, Andrea Giunta, Nicolás Guagnini, Paulo Herkenhoff, Anna Indych-Lopez, Luis Perez Oramas, John Pruitt, Mary Scheider Enriquez, and SofÃa Sanabrais who discuss the relevance of the institution's intricate relationships with art, economics, and politics. Essays address the emergence of site-specific practices such as Gego's Reticulárea and neo-avant-garde manifestations such as the Fashion Show Poetry Event conceived by E. Costa, J. Perrault, and H. Wiener; Marta Minujin's happenings; Michael Snow's photographs; David Siqueiros' monographic show; and the notion of landscape in the Western Hemisphere, among other significant topics. A Principality of Its Own explores the achievements, frictions, and experiments that modeled the institution from the Cold War to the present.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Using well-used genres like figurative painting, travel photography and landscape, John Miller has, since the 1970s, challenged the function of the author and the concomitant loss of aura for the artwork. He has regularly shifted his practice, actively resisting the reduction of his work to any critical tag. This volume remaps Miller's oeuvre.…

Condition: Good. 4to. 64 pp. Hard cover. Near Fine. Red cloth covered boards, with B&W plate laid in. B&W plates throughout.ISBN: 1590050614 9781590050613.

Editions 11/28/48, 111p, 2000, in-4 cartonnage noir décoré éditeur. Cartonnage légèrement défraîchi sinon bon état.