Anri Groden
Anri Groden
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 Anri CHRISTMAS PLATE St Jakob In Groden 1971 59860  US $40.99
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 Anri 1971 Christmas in St Jakob in Groden charger NIB US $32.95
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Anri Sala $41.68 - Anri Sala (b.1974) is a young artist whose haunting videos, photographs and installations have been applauded by critics and curators the world over - Though his work employs straight documentary practices, it also weaves its formal concerns (light and darkness, monochrome and colour, sound and silence) into a poetic investigation of its medium - Among other distinctions, Sala was awarded the Young Artist Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and nominated for the Guggenheim's prestigious Hugo Boss Prize (2002) - This is the first monograph of this scale and scope on Anri Sala's work |
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Albanian Artists : Anri Sala, Chatin Sarachi, Leon Qafzezi, Saimir Strati, Helidon Gjergji, Shyqri Nimani, Toni Milaqi, Kol Idromeno $8.66 No Synopsis Available |
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Feverish $14.02 Anri is a pretty, hot model who is a little callous. But his mysterious charms seem to attract admirers instead of pushing them away |
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Catch Me!: Geschwindigkeit Fassen/Grasping Speed $34.47 Ever since the Futurists, artists have recognized speed as a determinative quality of modern life. "Catch Me" features works exploring the intoxication of speed and acceleration, beginning with Ed Ruscha's "High-Speed Gardening" and including work by Daniel Hafner, Lisi Raskin, Anri Sala, Roman Signer and Markus Wilfling. |
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For Student Series Drama: Off the Map by Joan Ackermann $8.99 Off the Map was first published in 1994. It has been produced throughout the United States and has won a fair amount of critical acclaim. Most notably, Off the Map caught the eye of intelligent, independent film director, Campbell Scott. Scott, who has a propensity for moving stories from the stage to the screen, fell in love with Ackermann's drama. The movie premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Although it did not win awards, the film had a short national run and received complimentary reviews. The play's title comes from the location where the Groden family lives in northern New Mexico. The family is so far removed from any sense of conventional society that they live almost completely off the map. With Off the Map, Ackermann constructs a memory play in which Adult Bo Groden reflects back upon one summer of her childhood. During this summer, Young Bo, an eleven-year old girl, lives with her mother and father, Arlene and Charley. Other than Charley's friend, George, the family has little contact with the outside world. During this summer, Charley falls into a deep depression that challenges the Groden family. An unlikely visitor, William Gibbs, arrives at their doorstep to collect on back taxes. Gibbs is also suffering from depression and quickly develops a distant, unspoken bond with Charley. Strangely, Gibbs falls in love with the Grodens and their lifestyle, never returning to his life on the map. Beyond the sad, funny, and heartwarming moments, the Groden family and Gibbs share during the summer's struggle with individual demons and depression.... |
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Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies $47.56 Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies is a comprehensive guide to new critical approaches to Joyce studies. Topics covered include Joyce and Intertextuality, Joyce and Gender, Joyce and Politics, Joyce and Geography, and Joyce and Science. Contributors include Brandon Kershner, Michael Groden, Margot Norris, Vicki Mahaffey, Joseph Valente and Ronald Bush. A chronology and guide to further reading are also included. |
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Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology By Sartor, Klaus/ Albrecht, G./ Atzor, K. R./ Bien, S./ Bockenheimer, S./ Bruckmann, H. (CON)/ Deinzer, M. (CON)/ D $160.98 Author: Sartor, Klaus/ Albrecht, G./ Atzor, K. R./ Bien, S./ Bockenheimer, S./ Bruckmann, H. (CON)/ Deinzer, M. (CON)/ Dietrich, B. (CON)/ Forsting, M. (CON)/ Gass, A. (CON)/ Grodd, W. (CON)/ Groden, Ch (CON) Subtitle: A Multimodality Approach Publication Date: 2002/07/01 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 7.00 Height: 9.75 |
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Queen of K'N-Yan $21.37 The mummy of a beautiful young girl from Shang Dynasty China is found in an ornate and astonishingly large underground tomb. Preliminary research shows that her cells contain reptilian DNA, and a Japanese research lab is asked to investigate further... Working under the stern Dr. Li, molecular biologist Morishita Anri begins to probe the mysteries locked in the mummy's genetic code, while experiencing strange hallucinations of a different time and place. As Dr. Li hints at prehuman intelligences and huge caverns under the earth, Anri begins to wonder why uniformed soldiers of the PRC Liberation Army are present in the research center in Tokyo. Hallucinations and reality begin to fuse as innocents begin to die in both realities... A classic work of modern horror from the fevered brain of Asamatsu Ken, recognized as a master of weird fiction and horror in Japan. Stunning cover art by Kojima Ayami. |
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Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views $81.72 "What if you had never opened the book of your life? Or if that book had been even a little different? Ulysses in Focus takes up these vertiginous questions, raveling out episodes in the writing, critical reception, and editing of Joyce's masterpiece and twining them together with stories from a life spent elucidating it. Joyce himself would have admired the variety that Michael Groden offers us here: fascinating new readings of Ulysses by its foremost genetic critic; behind-the-scenes accounts of editorial contretemps and secret manuscript acquisitions; the sorrow of shelved projects and the thrill of the bibliographic quest. At its core, Ulysses in Focus tells the story of a reader and a book that seem to have been destined for one another. Yet its method is against destiny, seeking to free texts from the published state in which they ossify by restoring to us a sense of their evolution and their contingency. To read Groden is to think differently about reading and being: to suspect that a book, like a life, might be the sum of its untaken roads."--Paul K. Saint-Amour, University of Pennsylvania "This is an engaging, reflective, and highly personal set of essays and recollections by a leading Joyce scholar. It urges us to see, Ulysses not as a finished monument, but as a mobile piece of writing in constant dialogue with its own processes of composition and avant-textes."--Anne Fogarty, coeditor of Bloomsday 100: Essays onUlysses" "Michael Groden has been at the forefront of some of the most important developments in James Joyce studies over the past three decades. He was a major figure in and early adopter of genetic scholarship--the method of analyzing a literary work by looking at its development from draft to draft, particularly suited to Joyce's stories and novels. He defended Hans Walter Gabler's "Ulysses edition in the "Joyce Wars" and helped introduce the National Library of Ireland's new Joyce manuscripts to the world." Bringing together twelve essays in three areas of Joyce criticism and scholarship, this refreshing book offers various personal adventures from a life lived with Joyce's work. In a manner that is at once modest, rigorous, and accessible, Ulysses "in Focus engagingly connects these scholarly developments and contretemps to the author's personal history and provides fascinating new genetic readings of several episodes of "Ulysses that advance our understanding of the novel's composition."" |
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Best Enemies: Murder, Obsession, and Survival in the Rugged Backwoods of New York State $15.56 "The true measure of a man lies in his ability to remain independent and in his capacity to command respect. Plain and simple. That's an epitaph I'd favor." Such is the philosophy of one-time Newark Detective Sergeant Mac Taylor. After retiring under questionable circumstances, Mac searches to find his daughter and to square up with two of his BEST ENEMIES. The search takes him to a recreational park in the Catskill Mountains known as Mongaup Pond.When a murder and kidnapping occur at the upstate New York campground, Mac takes it personally. With the help of two weekend campers (Jason Strunella and his sister, Cheryl Groden), Mac sets out to deliver a special brand of street justice upon the offenders. Meanwhile, Police Lieutenant Evan Falco--working within the constraints of the law--races to find the determined avengers and to unravel a greater mystery; one that leads to a startling conclusion. |
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Writing the Image After Roland Barthes $28.29 "An extensive volume of Barthes's work on film, photography, and visual culture has been overdue. Jean-Michel Rabat has chosen an apt moment to fill this gap."--Gabriele Schwab, University of California, Irvine "A valuable, exciting, and welcome addition to the commentary in English on Roland Barthes."--Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In "Writing the Image After Roland Barthes," Jean-Michel Rabat and nineteen contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture. |
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Adlhart $79.66 Jakob Adlhart ( 1. April 1898 in Munchen; 12. August 1985 in Hallein) war ein osterreichischer Bildhauer. Adlhart genoss seine Ausbildung in der Werkstatt seines Vaters in Groden und ab 1909 in der Tennengauer Bezirksstadt Hallein. Durch seinen ersten Lehrer Alois Zwerber lernte der die breite Stilpalette historisierenden Kopierens kennen, setzte sich aber auch mit der Secession auseinander. 1920 ubernahm er die Leitung der Halleiner Werkstatte fur kirchliche Kunst und Kunstgewerbe und studierte anschliessend von 1921 bis 1923 bei Anton Hanak an der Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 110 Publication Date: 2010/08/17 Language: German Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.26 inches |
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Adolf Vallazza $68.51 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Adolf Vallazza ( 22. September 1924) ist ein Holzbildhauer in St. Ulrich in Sudtirol. Er schafft Kunstwerke vor allem Totems und Stuhle aus altem Holz. Begonnen aber hat er als Herrgottschnitzer in der Werkstatt des Luis InsamTavella im Grodnertal. Er ist ein Enkel des akademischen Malers Josef MoroderLusenberg. Josef Theodor Moroder, genannt der Lusenberger ( 28. Mai 1846 in St. Ulrich in Groden; 16. Februar 1939 ebenda), war ein Sudtiroler Maler, Bildhauer und Bildschnitzer. Er gilt als der bedeutendste ladinische Maler. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 76 Publication Date: 2010/08/22 Language: German Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.18 inches |
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Medium Religion: Faith, Geopolitics, Art $35.04 The religious movements of today no longer depend on the handselling of literature such as bibles, pamphlets etc, but instead operate predominantly with electronic picture media such as video and television that can be disseminated much more widely, and which are capable of enormous rhetorical impact. "Medium Religion" approaches religion as a media phenomenon, whose expressions are subject to the same laws of reproduction as any other consumer entity, and focuses particularly on geopolitical religious hotspots like the Middle East, Asia, Russia, North America and South America. It contains commentary by (among others) such notable thinkers as Boris Groys, Peter Sloterdijk and Slavoj Zizek; contributing artists include Adel Abdessemed, Oreet Ashery, Maja Bajevic, Paul Chan, Omer Fast, Barbad Golshiri, Kajri Jain, Vitali Komar, Alexander Kosolapov, Nira Pereg, Dorna Safaian, Anri Sala, Michael Schuster, Wael Shawky, Joshua Simon and Jalal Toufic. |
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Raika D Mei $79.66 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Raika D mei is a group of three Japanese photographers and their associates who have worked together on exhibitions and books since 1992. In 1992, the artist, novelist and oldcamera enthusiast Genpei Akasegawa, the artist Y tokutaishi Akiyama, and the photographer Yutaka Takanashi met at the opening party of an exhibition by the singer Anri Suganoand found that they had happened to bring along a Leica M3, M2 and M4 respectively.They found that they shared an enjoyment of mechanical cameras and also enjoyed walking around the streets taking photographs together.From that time until the present (2009) they have walked around Nagoya, Hakata, Paris, Mie, and Tokyo; and have exhibited and published the results. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Tennoe, Mariam T./ Henssonow, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 18 Publication Date: 2010/09/05 Language: English Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.04 inches |
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The Birthday Party of No Return (Paperback) $14.38 Welcome to the Hall of Horrors, HorrorLand`s Hall of Fame for the truly terrifying.Lee Hargrove wishes he could be lucky like his friend Cory Duckworth. Cory has to be the luckiest kid on the planet. Even Laura Groden, the girl Lee has a crush on, prefers to hang out with Cory. All Lee wants in life is to get a scholarship to Summer Sports Camp. But there`s only one scholarship from his school and he`s competing against Cory and Laura. Then Lee receives a good luck charm in the mail. It`s a vulture`s claw and Lee`s life seems to change immediately. Until bad things start to happen. The vulture`s claw is bringing really bad luck. Lee tries to give it to Cory as a birthday present but Cory already has one of his own. When both boys` luck take a turn for the worse, Laura wins the scholarship and admits to sending the bad luck charms to both boys. |
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Ostalgia $26.32 The word "ostalgie" emerged in Germany in the 1990s to describe a then-burgeoning nostalgia for the era prior to the collapse of the Communist Bloc and the breaking up of countries formerly united under Communist government. "Ostalgia" looks at the art produced in these countries--some of which did not even formally exist two decades ago--bringing together the work of more than 50 artists from 20 countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. Many of these works, by seminal figures and younger artists alike, offer a series of reportages on life and art under Communism and in the new post-Soviet countries. Eschewing a chronological perspective, "Ostalgia" instead establishes a series of dialogues between different generations and geographies, revealing local avant-garde practices and highlighting their international affinities. Among the artists included are Victor Alimpiev, Said Atabekov, Miroslav Balka, Irina Botea, Erik Bulatov, Andre Cadere, Stanislav Filko, Sanja Ivekovic, Jiri Kovanda, Edward Krasinski, Jonas Mekas, Boris Mikhailov, Paulina Olowska, Roman Ondak, Helga Paris, Dmitri Prigov, Anri Sala, Andro Wekua and Anna Zemankova. |
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Jonathan Edwards and the Catholic Vision of Salvation $39.53 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) has been acclaimed as the quintessential puritan of eighteenth-century America who defined not only what Puritanism was, but also what American Christianity would become. Anri Morimoto finds that Edwards's theology, once regarded as disarrayed, precarious, and dangerously unorthodox, is in fact consistent and integral to his general ontology and natural philosophy. By presenting Edwards's vision of salvation as a dynamic process of sharing God's excellence and holiness, Morimoto presents a new paradigm that is radically inclusive, yet theologically responsible.By discussing Edwards in relation to Roman Catholic traditions, Morimoto places him in the context of a broader Christian tradition rather than that of New England Puritanism. Morimoto argues that this view of salvation was not new to the Protestant tradition--in fact, this view was present in Luther, Calvin, and much of the Reformed tradition--but Edwards accented it more clearly and emphatically than anyone else. Morimoto concludes that one does not have to surrender or compromise one's theology to promote ecumenical harmony. This study will be of interest to scholars, teachers and students of theology and religion, church leaders and lay persons of all denominations, evangelical or liberal, and especially those interested in Edwards, Puritanism, and early American intellectual history. |
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PHOTOart: Photography in the 21st Century $45.79 More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, "Photo Art" is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography. It particularly addresses the work of artists emerging in Western and Eastern Europe--many of whom will be new to American audiences--and presents critical contexts for their work in accompanying essays. Gathering more than 120 image-makers from around the globe, this luscious compendium reads like an international art fair between covers, with the work of artists to watch now and in the future, from established figures to representatives of the newest generation. Among the artists featured here are Roy Arden, the Atlas Group, Seung Woo Back, Richard Billingham, Gerard Byrne, Claude Closky, Natalie Czech, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Ruud van Empel, J.H. Engstrom, Charles Freger, Stephen Gill, G.R.A.M., Beate Gutschow, Jitka Hanzlova, Annika von Hausswolff, Michael Janiszewski, Aglaia Konrad, Justine Kurland, An-My Le, Jochen Lempert, Zbigniew Libera, Hellen van Meene, Multiplicity, Wangechi Mutu, Mika Ninagawa, Arno Nollen, Gabor Osz, Peter Piller, Xavier Ribas, Torbj0rn R0dland, Anri Sala, Jules Spinatsch, Eve Sussman, Alec Soth, Santiago Sierra, Janaina Tschape, Jens Ullrich, Santos R. Vasquez, Qingsong Wang, Michael Wesely, Yang Fudong and Takashi Yasumura. Each artist's work is given a generous four-page spread, and many of these are embellished with installation views, book layouts and shots of artist's websites. Essays by 20 of the world's top international curators and theorists, including Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig, along with a glossary of important technical and theoretical terms, make this a definitive and essential volume. |
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Luc Tuymans: The Reality of the Lowest $68.77 This book is the official catalogue for the exhibition A Vision of Central Europe that will be held at the concert hall in Bruges from the end of 2010 until January 23rd 2011. Luc Tuymans has selected the works of artists from East and Central Europe, dating from World War II until the present day. His fascination with Central Europe's eventful history has been translated into a highly personal exhibition. Some thirty refreshingly innovative artists from that region show work that displays a clear vision of society. Like Tuymans, they don't shy away from themes such as war, violence and trauma. The main text of the book is written by Alison Gas, curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), with a contribution by Takashi Murakami, one of the most important contemporary artists working today. With works by Pawel Althamer, Miroslaw Balka, Wojciech Bakowski, Hans Bellmer, Guillaume Bijl, Walerian Borowczyk, Piotr Bosacki, Pavel Buchler, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Armen Eloyan, Igor Eskinja, Katharina Fritsch, Isa Genzken, Tadeusz Kantor, Alex Katz, Martin Kippenberger, Zlatko Kopljar, Igor Kovalyov, Klara Kristalova, Zbigniew Libera, David Maljkovic, Takashi Murakami, Deimantas Narkevicius, Priit Parn, Sigmar Polke, Quay Brothers (Stephen and Timothy), Neo Rauch, Gerhard Richter, Zbigniew Rybczyn'ski, Anri Sala, Bruno Schulz, Andreas Slominski, Jan Svankmajer, Alina Szapocznikow, Paul Thek, Luc Tuymans, Meyer Vaisman, Andy Warhol, Weegee, Andrzej Wroblewski. |
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Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon [With DVD] $32.49 In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists--video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon. He shows how their respective projects are best understood as engaging in a variety of ways with some of the core themes and issues associated with high modernism, and indeed with its prehistory in French painting and art criticism from Diderot on. "Four Honest Outlaws" thus continues the author's exploration of the critical and philosophical territory opened up by his earlier book, the magisterial "Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before." It presents a vision of the most important contemporary art as not only not repudiating modernism in the name of postmodernism in any of the latter's many forms and manifestations, but also actually as committed to dialectically renewing certain crucial qualities and values that modernism and premodernism brought to the fore, above all those of presentness and anti-theatricality. "Four Honest Outlaws" takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song, "To live outside the law you must be honest," meaning in this case that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary norms and expectations of the contemporary art world. Filled with stunning images throughout and accompanied by a DVD illustrating works by Sala and Gordon discussed in its pages, "Four Honest Outlaws" is sure to provoke controversy even as it makes a dramatic bid to further transform the terms in which the art of the present should be understood. |
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Uchastniki Gruzino-Abkhazskikh Voi N: Basaev, Shamil Salmanovich, Limonov, Eduard Veniaminovich, Shamanov, Vladimir Anatol Evich, $18.59 Istochnik: Wikipedia. Stranitsy: 30. Glavy: Basaev, Shamil Salmanovich, Limonov, Eduard Veniaminovich, Shamanov, Vladimir Anatol evich, Gelaev, Ruslan Germanovich, Bagapsh, Sergyei Vasil evich, UNA-UNSO, Atgeriev, Turpal-Ali Aladievich, Ardzinba, Vladislav Grigor evich, Israpilov, Khunkar-Pasha Germanovich, Sosnaliev, Sultan Aslambekovich, Abdulkhadzhiev, Aslambek Sai pievich, Kvitsiani, Emzar Bekmurazovich, Khadzhimba, Raul Dzhumkovich, Arshba, Vladimir Gyeorgievich, Gartskiya, Avtandil Zefikovich, Chupalaev, Said-Magomed Tsugaevich, Monadire, Arshba, Valerii Shalvovich, Belyi legion, Kishmariya, Merab Borisovich, Dzhergeniya, Anri Mikhai lovich, Mkhedrioni, Mikanba, Vladimir Tachevich, Khankarov, Khamzat Zharapovich, Adamiya, Geno, Eshba, Vyacheslav Akhmetovich, Trapizonyan, Galust Parnakovich. Vyderzhka: Gruzino-abkhazskaya voi na: Boevye dyei stviya protiv otryadov vooruzhennoi oppozitsiiPervaya chechenskaya voi na: Mezhvoennyi konflikt v ChechneVtorzhenie v DagestanVtoraya chechenskaya voi na: Shami l Salma novich Basa ev, Abdalla kh Shami l Abu -Idri?'s (14 yanvarya 1965, Dyshne-Vedeno, Checheno-Ingushskaya ASSR, RSFSR - 10 iyulya 2006, Ekazhevo, Ingushetiya, Rossiya) - aktivnyi uchastnik separatist skogo dvizheniya v Chechne, odin iz rukovoditelyei samoprovozglashe nnoi Chechenskoi Respubliki Ichkeriya (CHRI) v 1995-2006 godakh. Imel zvanie brigadnogo generala CHRI. Organizoval ryad diversionnykh operatsii i terroristicheskikh aktov na territorii Rossii skoi Federatsii. Byl vnese n v spiski terroristov OON, Gosdepartamenta SSHA i Yevropyei skogo soyuza.. Basaev rodilsya na khutore Dyshne-Vedeno Vedenskogo rai ona Checheno-Ingushskoi ASSR. Do 1970 goda zhil v Dyshne-Vedeno, zatem v stanitse Yermolovskaya. V 1982 godu on okonchil srednyuyu shkolu, a s 1983 goda okolo chetyre kh let (s pereryvami) rabotal raznorabochim v sovkhoze Aksai skii Volgogradskoi oblasti. V 1983-1985 godakh prokhodil srochnuyu sluzhbu v Sovet skoi armii (nazemnye... |
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Four Honest Outlaws By Fried, Michael $44.92 In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artistsvideo artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in moviesDouglas Gordon. He shows how their respective projects are best understood as engaging in a variety of ways with some of the core themes and issues associated with high modernism, and indeed with its prehistory in French painting and art criticism from Diderot on. Four Honest Outlaws thus continues the authors exploration of the critical and philosophical territory opened up by his earlier book, the magisterial Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. It presents a vision of the most important contemporary art as not only not repudiating modernism in the name of postmodernism in any of the latters many forms and manifestations, but also actually as committed to dialectically renewing certain crucial qualities and values that modernism and premodernism brought to the fore, above all those of presentness and antitheatricality. Four Honest Outlaws takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song, To live outside the law you must be honest, meaning in this case that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary norms and expectations of the contemporary art world. Filled with stunning images throughout and accompanied by a DVD illustrating works by Sala and Gordon discussed in its pages, Four Honest Outlaws is sure to provoke controversy even as it makes a dramatic bid to further transform the terms in which the art of the present should be understood Provided by publisher. Author: Fried, Michael Subtitle: Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon Publication Date: 2011/09/06 Number of Pages: 245 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 7.25 Height: 9.50 |
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Four Honest Outlaws (Mixed media product) $55.05 In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists--video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon. He shows how their respective projects are best understood as engaging in a variety of ways with some of the core themes and issues associated with high modernism, and indeed with its prehistory in French painting and art criticism from Diderot on. Four Honest Outlaws thus continues the author`s exploration of the critical and philosophical territory opened up by his earlier book, the magisterial Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. It presents a vision of the most important contemporary art as not only not repudiating modernism in the name of postmodernism in any of the latter`s many forms and manifestations, but also actually as committed to dialectically renewing certain crucial qualities and values that modernism and premodernism brought to the fore, above all those of presentness and anti-theatricality. Four Honest Outlaws takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song, "To live outside the law you must be honest," meaning in this case that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary norms and expectations of the contemporary art world. Filled with stunning images throughout and accompanied by a DVD illustrating works by Sala and Gordon discussed in its pages, Four Honest Outlaws is sure to provoke controversy even as it makes a dramatic bid to further transform the terms in which the art of the present should be understood. |
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