The Expanded Eye - Stalking the Unseen

Ed. Bice Curiger, Kunsthaus Zürich, Text(s) von Ina Blom, Bice Curiger, Diedrich Diederichsen, Kurt W. Forster, Al Rees, Rüdiger Wehner

ISBN 10: 377571815X / ISBN 13: 9783775718158

Published by Hatje Cantz, Zürich, 2006

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Z/B : 256 pp., 480 ills. - The Expanded Eye shows how the horizons have widened in art, as abstraction has become dematerialization which has in turn led us into fluid, hybrid universes where very different levels of reality mingle. The removal of past barriers reflects the changed role of the artist as an explorer who has a playful side and who actively empathizes with his or her addressees, namely the public at large. The publication also contains an anthology of texts from the most diverse subject areas from artist statements by Lucio Fontana and Josef Albers to theoretical essays by Rudolf Arnheim and philosophical texts by Georg Kubler and Teilhard de Chardin.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Expanded Eye - Stalking the Unseen
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Zürich
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 377571815X
• ISBN 13: 9783775718158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 20W x 29H x 0D centimeters 20 centimeters width by 29 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Contemporary art
  • Essay
  • Kunsttheorie

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Synopsis

The eye is the dominant sensory organ of our age, with more and more information received in still and moving images, and more and more information mined visually from spatial dimensions that are ever smaller and ever greater. The use of a wide variety of optical devices has long been second nature to us, and their methods of extending the reach of our sight--virtually and really--have instigated fundamental, far-reaching changes in our understanding of reality. The Expanded Eye takes a concerted look at an experimental side of art, where seeing means insight. It presents paintings, objects, film and video installations from the 1950s to the present, a spectrum that takes into equal account the playful experiments of postwar art and the radically altered premises of recent artistic practice. Artists include Bridget Riley, Robert Smithson, Jonas Mekas, Olafur Eliasson and Jules Spinatsch.