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Performing Human Rights Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
ISBN: PB: 9783035802610, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 30 halftones
The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces, and spatial manifestations, characterizes conflict and post-conflict situations. Yet, artists, writers, and human rights activists increasingly seek to challenge this invisibility, cont...
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£40,00
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What is Contemporary Art?
ISBN: PB: 9783035801453, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
104 pp., 16.9x11 cm, 8 halftones
Art today is often practiced in perfect conformity with the neoliberal zeitgeist, often even denying its own radical potential".What is Contemporary Art?" lucidly examines the relationship between art and politics in our time. Addressing the heart of...
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£14,00
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Aesthetics of the Commons
ISBN: PB: 9783035803457, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What do a feminist server, an art space located in a public park in North London, a so-called pirate library of high cultural value yet dubious legal status, and an art school that emphasizes collectivity have in common? They all demonstrate that art...
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£20,00
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Refaire le monde
ISBN: PB: 9783035802740, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Staging an exhibition as choreography, as drama, as opera, as a place where reality, politics, aesthetics, art, film, and music can address the issues of our day through documentaries, dialogues, science, activism, and creativity: This is the dream,...
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£28,00
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Exotic Switzerland? Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9783035802276, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 colour plates
During the 17th and 18th centuries, foreign material culture was introduced into France and Switzerland and integrated into European interiors and decorative arts. Scholars have emphasized this era's emerging taste for the exotic in order to explain...
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£40,00
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minor cosmopolitan Thinking art, politics, and the universe together otherwise
ISBN: PB: 9783035803044, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
In the wake of rapid globalization, many enthusiastically declared cosmopolitanism to be no longer just a philosophical ideal, but a real, existing fact. Across the world, they argued, people were increasingly considering themselves global citizens....
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£24,00
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Projectionists Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image
ISBN: PB: 9783035802894, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates, 20 halftones
Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form. Projectionists examines mostly unknown aspects of Muybridge's work: his period as a touring projectionist who enthralled audiences with unprecedented moving-...
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£28,00
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TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice
ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones
For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...
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£20,00
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Manifesto of Artistic Research
ISBN: PB: 9783035802207, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
128 pp., 29.2x17.7 cm
Since its beginnings in the 1990s, artistic research has become established as a new format in the areas of educational and institutional policy, aesthetics, and art theory. It has now diffused into almost all artistic fields, from installation to ex...
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£17,50
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Aesthetic Theory
ISBN: PB: 9783035801460, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2019
240 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 15 colour plates, 20 halftones
Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory. At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic the...
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