Nothing in MoMA

Nothing in MoMA
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Publisher : punctum books
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 : 9781947447752
ISBN-13 : 1947447750
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Nothing in MoMA by : Abraham Adams

Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the "grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking," in the words of art historian David Joselit's introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children's board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing in MoMA is here collected for the first time in the series' entirety. Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams's photographs likewise recalls François Jullien's theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. Both a visual essay on museum phenomenology and a performance document, Nothing in MoMA describes a choreography of avoidance, in which a conceptual constraint becomes a means of seeing and navigating concrete space.

Nothing in MoMA.

Nothing in MoMA.
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Total Pages : 90
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ISBN-10 : 1947447769
ISBN-13 : 9781947447769
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Nothing in MoMA. by : Abraham Adams

Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the "grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking," in the words of art historian David Joselit's introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children's board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing in MoMA is here collected for the first time in the series' entirety. Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams's photographs likewise recalls François Jullien's theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. Both a visual essay on museum phenomenology and a performance document, Nothing in MoMA describes a choreography of avoidance, in which a conceptual constraint becomes a means of seeing and navigating concrete space.

Wait, Later this Will be Nothing

Wait, Later this Will be Nothing
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Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages : 97
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780870708503
ISBN-13 : 0870708503
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Wait, Later this Will be Nothing by : Sarah J. S. Suzuki

Catalog of an exhibition held Feb. 13-June 24, 2013.

Nothing to Remember

Nothing to Remember
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 3865216595
ISBN-13 : 9783865216595
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Nothing to Remember by : Louise Bourgeois

Nothing to Remember! is a facsimile of 22 delicately-colored prints on hand-drawn music paper created between 2004 and 2006 by Louise Bourgeois. This artist's book follows an earlier publication, Ode à l'Oubli (Ode to Forgetfulness), which Bourgeois made entirely out of fabric, using linens and clothing remnants from her past. Nothing to Remember! is an immediate collectible, with only limited quantities available.

Among Others

Among Others
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Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 1633450341
ISBN-13 : 9781633450349
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Among Others by : Darby English

Among Others: Blackness at MoMA begins with an essay that provides a rigorous and in-depth analysis of MoMA's history regarding racial issues. It also calls for further developments, leaving space for other scholars to draw on particular moments of that history. It takes an integrated approach to the study of racial blackness and its representation: the book stresses inclusion and, as such, the plate section, rather than isolating black artists, features works by non-black artists dealing with race and race- related subjects. As a collection book, the volume provides scholars and curators with information about the Museum's holdings, at times disclosing works that have been little documented or exhibited. The numerous and high-quality illustrations will appeal to anyone interested in art made by black artists, or in modern art in general.

Pictures of Nothing

Pictures of Nothing
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 302
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ISBN-10 : 9780691126784
ISBN-13 : 069112678X
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Pictures of Nothing by : Kirk Varnedoe

He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop.

Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925

Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925
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Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages : 378
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780870708282
ISBN-13 : 0870708287
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 by : Leah Dickerman

This book explores the development of abstraction from the moment of its declaration around 1912 to its establishment as the foundation of avant-garde practice in the mid-1920s. The book brings together many of the most influential works in abstractions early history to draw a cross-media portrait of this watershed moment in which traditional art was reinvented in a wholesale way. Works are presented in groups that serve as case studies, each engaging a key topic in abstractions first years: an artist, a movement, an exhibition or thematic concern. Key focal points include Vasily Kandinskys ambitious Compositions V, VI and VII; a selection of Piet Mondrians work that offers a distilled narrative of his trajectory to Neo-plasticism; and all the extant Suprematist pictures that Kazimir Malevich showed in the landmark 0.10 exhibition in 1915.0Exhibition: MoMA, New York, USA (23.12.2012-15.4.2013).

Waste Not

Waste Not
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Total Pages : 188
Release :
ISBN-10 : 4904149025
ISBN-13 : 9784904149027
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Waste Not by : Wu Hung

The Un-private House

The Un-private House
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Publisher : ABRAMS
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015050257099
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Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Un-private House by : Terence Riley

"This book looks at twenty-six houses by an international roster of contemporary architects"--P. [4] of cover.