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Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

Duke University Press, 2008

In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents as well as important questions about temporality and change. They also reflect on whether or not ...

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
Okwui Enwezor

Steidl/ICP, 2008

Was it Joseph Cornell's dossiers on ballerinas and artists that first proposed the model of the archive as a creative storehouse, a vehicle for the ordering of chaotic fragments? Over the past 30 years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to archives, most of them (like Cornell) concentrating on photographic and filmic collections. Organized and written by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, and taking ...

Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography

1 review
Colin Richard

Steidl/ICP, 2006

Debunking the Myth
This is a top rate book. Enwezor acts as the voice for this movment in photography. It really debunks the myth of the typical (afro-pessimistic) photos of Africa. It shows you all walks of life, from the people who live there. It's straight photography, fine art photography, fashion photography, documentary, and any other type you can think of. If you are into photography, art, or even ...

The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society
Okwui Enwezor

Biacs, 2006

Focusing on the contemporary confluence of aesthetics and politics, The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society is concerned with the complexities of intimacy, proximity, antagonism, and renews. Published in conjunction with the Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs 2), The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society functions as more than simply a catalog for the exhibition. The book features essays by Judith ...

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
Okwui Enwezor

Yale University Press, 2007

With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. Her evocative works probe questions of race, class, cultural hybridism, and national identities in African diasporic communities. "Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water" is the first full-scale survey of ...

Lorna Simpson

1 review

Harry N. Abrams in association with the American Federation of Arts, 2006

A 20-year gallery and retrospective of contemporary artist Lorna Simpson's photographic and text works
Organized by the American Federation of the Arts, Lorna Simpson is a 20-year gallery and retrospective of contemporary artist Lorna Simpson's photographic and text works. Unafraid to delve into themes of race, sexuality, and loss, Simpson's striking imagery of the human figure, often cropped, speaks directly to the viewer. Black-and- white and color photographs give the reader the next best thing ...

Ahlam Shibli
Jean-Francois Chevrier, Okwui Enwezor, ...

Walther Konig, 2007

From January to July of 2005, photographer Ahlam Shibli, born in Palestine in 1970, followed the young Palestinians of the Israeli army, soldiers of Bedouin descent deployed in tracking units at borders and in the occupied territories. The banal and unheroic moments she recorded, while the men were resting or waiting for something to happen, are set alongside images of destroyed houses and decayed infrastructure, cemeteries where Palestinians ...

William Kentridge: Tapestries (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Carlos Basualdo, Gabriele Guercio, ...

Yale University Press, 2008

South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums?drawings, animations, sculptures, theater and stage design?all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa. This book is the first to explore Kentridge?s extraordinary new series of seventeen large-scale tapestries, created under his artistic direction by a team of South African weavers between 2001 and ...

Reading the Contemporary

Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA), 1999

In the past decade, contemporary African art has been featured in major exhibtions in museums, galleries, international biennials, and other forums. African cinema has established itself on the stage of world cinema, culminating in the Ouagadougou Film Festival. While African art and visual culture have become an integral part of the art history and cultural studies curricula in universities worldwide, critical readings and interpretations ...

Samuel Fosso
Maria Francesca Bonetti, Guido Schlinkert

5 Continents Editions, 2006

This catalog features the photography of Samuel Fosso and accompanies the first monograph exhibit devoted entirely to his work. Rising from the ranks of a portrait photographer in the 1970s, Fosso has gained recent recognition in traveling photograph exhibits, and his work has been published in Contemporary African Art , Frieze Magazine , and Guardian . Distinctive, reflective, and ironic, Fosso's photographs incoporate a "fantasy space" ...

David Goldblatt
John Coetzee, Michael Godby, ...

Actar, 2001

David Goldblatt stands as South Africa's most respected and important documentary photographer. His work in his native country has consistently been uncompromising in its critical exploration of South African society, through the aparthied years during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, and into the more recent post-aparthied period. His body of photographs of the architecture of South Africa make an eloquent statement about the inequalities of life ...

Documenta11_Plattform5: The Exhibition

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

9.75 x 11.75 in. 400 color illustrations English/German

Looking Both Ways
Lauri Firstenberg, Salah Hassan, ...

Snoeck Publishers, Ghent, 2004

Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora considers the work of artists from North, South, East, and West Africa who live and work in Western countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. As its title indicates, Looking Both Ways refers to the artists' practice of looking at the psychic terrain between Africa and the West, a terrain of shifting physical ...

What Is Oma: Considering Rem Koolhaas And The Office For Metropolitan Architecture

2 reviews
Jean Attali, H.J.A. Hofland, ...

NAi Publishers/Neue Nationalgalerie, 2004

Cliff Notes on OMA
"What is OMA?" - a collection of writings by varied individuals about Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture - unfortunately amounts to Cliff Notes about the said architect and his design firm. Admittedly,when I bought "What is OMA?" I thought that the book would be an interesting discussion about the work and theories of Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan ...

Documenta11_Plattform5: The Catalog

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

Extensively illustrated, the Catalog contains an essay of the artistic director, Okwui Enwezor, contributions from members of the Documenta11 curatorial team: Ute Meta Bauer, Carlos Basualdo, Sarat Maharaj, Mark Nash, and Angelika Nollert as well as texts written by invited authors from different fields, such as art history, philosophy, or theory. All artists will be featured with illustrations of representative works, and the documentation of ...

Josephine Meckseper
Okwui Enwezor, Marion Ackermann, ...

Hatje Cantz, 2007

The work of the New York-based German conceptualist, Josephine Meckseper, deals with themes of consumerism and commodity fetishism in modern society. For example, her shop window installations, Shelves , juxtapose fashion accessories with regalia, such as Palesetinian kaffiyeh, taken from left wing protest movements. The connection between consumerism and politics was initially sparked by the confluence of luxury advertising and political news, ...

Lyon Biennial
Okwui Enwezor, Ralph Rugoff

JRP|Ringier, 2008

The curators of the ninth Lyon Biennial approached the task of mapping the moment in contemporary art playfully: by commissioning a polyphonic history and geography book. With 70 "players" from around the world, the "game" of how to define the decade unfolded via a series of delegations, invitations and programs in which artists proposed their responses and critics and curators sequenced and challenged them, in turn suggesting artists of their ...

Democracy Unrealized: Documenta 11_Platform1
Stefano Boeri, Carlos Basualdo, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

Recently democracy has been the watchword for a range of disparate, yet apparently convergent contestations and negotiations within the global order. Democracy Unrealized, detailing the results of Platform1, the first of four conferences held in conjunction with Documenta 11, presents a context within which the interpretive and conceptual regimes surrounding democracy can be reargued against the claims of a neoliberal ideology. From this ...

Stadelschule Frankfurt am Main
Pamela Lee, Okwui Enwezor, ...

Walther Konig, 2008

The Frankfurt am Main Stadelschule, and its gallery Portikus, form a leading international center for experimental contemporary art. The Stadelschule was founded in 1817 by Johann Friedrich Stadel for the purpose of introducing students to his prodigous art collection. This publication is authored by contemporary Stadelschule professors and visiting lecturers, including Pamela Lee, Niklas Maak, Jan Verwoert and Okwui Enwezor, who discuss what ...

Archaeology of Motivations - Rewriting History
Okwui Enwezor, Elizabeth Harney, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

The history that African artist Georges Adaagbo "rewrites" is plural and nonhierarchical, a history that is constantly shifting and being shifted, in which seemingly valid parameters are being subverted, and from which diverse readings emerge. In installations that juxtapose books, magazines, record sleeves, and photographs from Africa with objects and texts from the country in which he is working, Adeagbo elucidates and reinterprets the ...

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