Contemporary Art Documentation and Fine Arts Libraries by Sydney Starr Keaveney. Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1986. 181p. ISBN 0-8108-1859-0. $17.50.

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
Eugenie Candau
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Fine Arts

scholarly journals A wider study of contemporary art based on Mikel Diez Alaba´s Mínimos series

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 237-242
Author(s):  
Irene Cárdaba-López ◽  
Iraia Anthonisen Añabeitia
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Acrylic Paint ◽  
Museum Of Fine Arts ◽  
Contemporary Artist ◽  
Working Method ◽  
New Strategies

This research is based on the work of the Basque contemporary artist Mikel Diez Alaba and his series called Mínimos, which gathers up to 144 small size pieces made out of acrylic paint applied on printed images. This collection was displayed on the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao during 2014. The main objective of this paper is to reach a more integral conception of conservation –based on the latest theories regarding heritage-, focusing on material aspects and the conceptual characteristics of the artwork, alike. Thereby, the working method in Mínimos series has been analyzed, as well as the presence of elements linked to the natural heritage. All this, taken together allows the establishment of new strategies towards the conservation of contemporary artworks.

al-Attar, Suad (1942--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Renee Floyd
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Geographic Regions ◽  
The University

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Suad al-Attar moved to London in 1976. She holds a prominent position within the narrative of Iraqi modern and contemporary art as one of the nation’s leading female artists. In 1965, al-Attar became the first woman to hold a solo exhibition in Baghdad. This exhibition was the beginning of a prolific career that spans several decades and geographic regions. Al-Attar began her formal education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad and at California State University. She then pursued graduate training in London at the Wimbledon School of Art, where she studied printmaking, and the Central School of Art and Design. After the completion of her studies, al-Attar taught at the University of Baghdad before moving to London. Working within a graphic aesthetic, al-Attar’s work is flat, linear, and oftentimes monochromatic. Her canvases are filled with mythical creatures set in phantasmagoric spaces. The artist’s work is characterized as a manifestation of memory, at both a personal and collective level. Her characters emerge from Iraq’s literary past, but al-Attar also creates a personalized set of symbols based on memories of her homeland. Many of her works also offer introspective laments on the destruction of Baghdad during the turbulent years of the 1990s and 2000s.

Stuckism (A Conversation)

ARTMargins ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-81
Author(s):  
Octavian Eşanu
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art World ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Corporate Support

In this text, which takes the form of a conversation and is preceded by a short introduction, the ARTMargins collective seeks to draw the readers' attention to a global artistic community known as Stuckism. The contribution highlights some of the most conspicuous issues raised by the Stuckists. For more than a decade Stuckism has critiqued the mainstream contemporary art world, accusing it of being at the mercy of global speculative capital; Stuckism also questions the mainstream aesthetics of conceptualism and its insistence upon de-materialized artistic practices. Instead Stuckism calls for respect for traditional or fine arts media, providing in the meantime an example of forging global cooperation among artists from various countries, without or even in spite of a lack of corporate support.

scholarly journals The role of museums in the modern artistic process of Buryatia

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
Т.А. Бороноева
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
The State ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Geographic Remoteness

Автор рассматривает роль государственных музеев и центров современного искусства в развитии изобразительного искусства Бурятии. В частности, показано, как решаются проблемы, порожденные географической удаленностью республики от культурных столиц России и сложившимся в русле академизма стереотипом «национального своеобразия». В настоящее время в Республике Бурятия достаточно заметны признаки активного развития современного искусства, поддерживаются молодые таланты. При этом автор отмечает, что ведущую роль в сохранении, продвижении произведений изобразительного искусства и художников играют именно государственные музеи. Именно там работы художников становятся музейными предметами — культурными ценностями, имеющими значение для истории и культуры государства и обладающими особыми признаками, которые делают необходимыми для общества их сохранение, изучение и публичное представление. The author examines the role of state museums and centers of contemporary art in the development of the fine arts of Buryatia. In this development process, it is important to solve the problems generated by the geographic remoteness of the republic from the cultural capitals of Russia and the stereotype of “national identity” that has developed in line with academism. At present, signs of active development of contemporary art are quite noticeable in the republic, young talents are supported. At the same time, the author notes that it is the state museums that play the leading role in the preservation and promotion of works of fine art and artists. It is in museums that the works of artists become museum objects — cultural values ​​that are significant for the history and culture of the state and possess special characteristics that make it necessary for society to preserve, study and publicize them.

scholarly journals Museo y Musa. Referencias y repercusión del proyecto de Molezún realizado en Roma | Museum and Muse. References and consequences of Molezún’s project in Rome

ZARCH ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Marta García Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
National Architecture ◽  
Arte Contemporáneo ◽  
Contemporary Art Museum

En 1953 Ramón Vázquez Molezún recibió el Premio Nacional de Arquitectura con su proyecto Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Fue su segundo galardón en poco más de dos años, después de haber recibido en 1951 el premio de la I Bienal Hispanoamericana con el proyecto Teatro al Aire Libre Homenaje a Gaudí. Paradójicamente, gracias a estos dos ejercicios de carácter académico realizados durante su estancia como pensionado en la Academia Española de Bellas Artes de Roma, Molezún se convirtió, sin haber construido una sola obra, en una referencia tanto para los arquitectos españoles como para los estudiantes de las escuelas de arquitectura de nuestro país. El propio Museo de Arte Contemporáneo fue en aquella época un proyecto clave en el devenir de su obra y uno de los más influyentes entre sus colegas. Este artículo estudia, en un primer lugar, el contexto de esa propuesta de museo, de esa idea que fue dibujada por Ramón Vázquez Molezún sin intención de ser construida, tratando de desvelar las claves proyectuales de su esencia: a este respecto las alusiones a Gaudí y Wright, pero también a sus viajes por Europa son citas obligadas. Después trata de analizar en qué medida este proyecto, un museo convertido en musa, pudo servir de inspiración para la generación de otros muchos proyectos sí construidos, propios y ajenos.In 1953, Ramón Vázquez Molezún received the National Architecture Prize for his Contemporary Art Museum project. It was his second award in little more than two years, after receiving the First Hispanic-American Biennial Prize for his Open-air theatre; tribute to Gaudi. Paradoxically, thanks to these academic works made during his stay as a pensioner at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Molezún became, without having built any construction yet, a model for both architects and architecture students of our country. The Contemporary Art Museum was, at the time, a key project in the progression of Molezun’s career, and one of the most influential works among his colleagues. First of all, this article studies the context of this museum, of the concept drawn by Ramón Vázquez Molezún without any intention of building it, trying to uncover the keys of its essence. Gaudi and Wright allusions, as well as his travels around Europe, are mandatory stops. Secondly, the article tries to analyze in what measure this project, a museum made muse, could have been an inspiration for a great number of built projects, both Molezún’s and others.

Digital Resources: Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
María C. Gaztambide
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Latino Artists

Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art: A Digital Archive and Publications Project is a multiyear initiative at the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that seeks to consolidate Latin American and Latino art as a field of study and to place it on equal footing with other established aesthetic traditions. It encompasses the recovery, translation into English, and publication of primary texts by Latin American and Latino artists, critics, and curators who have played a fundamental role in the development of modern and contemporary art in countries or communities throughout the Americas. The ICAA makes these essential bibliographic materials available free of charge through a digital archive and a series of fully annotated book anthologies published in English. It is facilitating new historical scholarship on 20th-century Latin American and Latino art through a framework of thirteen open-ended editorial categories that center on thematic rather than more traditional chronological guidelines. This approach broadens the discourse on the modern and contemporary art produced along this cultural axis. A discussion and contextualization of a selection of recovered documents that relate to the editorial category of “Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?” supports this central argument. These and other little-known or previously inaccessible primary source and critical materials will ultimately encourage interdisciplinary and transnational (re)readings of how aesthetics, social issues, and artistic tendencies have been contested and developed in the region.

Reenactments der Macht

2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Maria Muhle
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Central Object ◽  
Politics Of History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

Der Text stellt Überlegungen zu einer medialen Historiographie an, d. h. zu einer Geschichtsschreibung, an  der die Medien, in diesem Fall die Bilder, mitschreiben. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt den Strategien des Reenactments, die traditionellerweise als Mittel einer ereignisorientierten Geschichtsschreibung verhandelt werden. In letzter Zeit gibt es in zeitgenössischen Kunstformen jedoch eine starke Auseinandersetzung mit  diesen Strategien, die darauf abzielt, eine solche totale oder globale Geschichtsschreibung zugunsten einer fragmentarischen und kritischen Sicht zu hinterfragen. Ausgehend von Michel Foucaults methodologischen Überlegungen zur Geschichte in der Archäologie des Wissens untersucht der Text unterschiedliche Formen  einer Geschichtspolitik der Bilder anhand von drei Reenactment-Beispielen aus Film, Theater und der Bildenden Kunst<br><br>The text considers the possibility of a mediatic historiography, that is, a form of historiographic writing in which the media, in this case images, participate. The central object of investigation is the strategy of reenactment that is traditionally regarded as a means of eventorientated historiography. Contemporary art has recently questioned these strategies and proposed to replace the totalizing or globalizing approach of history and historiography with a more fragmentary and critical perspective. On the backdrop of Michel Foucault’s methodological reflections on history that he develops in Archeology of Knowledge, the text analyzes different forms of a politics of history of the images through three examples of reenactment taken from film, theatre and the fine arts.

scholarly journals Más allá de la imagen. La literatura visual del artista invisible

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
David Marqués Serra
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Constructive Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Original Narrative ◽  
The One ◽  
Communicative Exchange ◽  
Arte Contemporáneo

Resumen: El presente artículo gira en torno al proceso constructivo de la comunicación pictórica contemporánea en el caso de la producción de Joan Millet (Gandía, 1958). Así pues, en él se abordan diferentes cuestiones que se devienen esenciales para la configuración de su particular discurso, tales como la intención narrativa primigenia, la estructura semiótica de la imagen o el valor expresivo de la propia materia. Entender la conjunción entre lo narrativo y lo sensitivo resulta primordial para la comprensión de la intencionalidad del artista en cuestión, que siempre articula sus imágenes minuciosamente, atendiendo y sirviéndose de cualquier recurso compositivo, literario o experiencial que esté a su alcance. Además, también se hace hincapié en la posición que ocupa el posible espectador en el rodeo comunicativo que el artista inicia con la obra. Del receptor, en definitiva, es de quien depende el eventual salto hacia el plano simbólico. Palabras clave: Pintura, narración, literatura, comunicación, bellas artes, arte contemporáneo Abstract: This article revolves around the constructive process of contemporary pictorial communication in Joan Millet’s production (Gandia, 1958). Thus, it addresses different issues that become essential for the configuration of his discourse, such as the original narrative intention, the semiotic structure of the image, or the expressive value of the subject itself. Understanding the conjunction between the narrative and the sensitive is paramount to the comprehension of the artist’s intention, as he always articulates his images meticulously, attending and using any compositional, literary, or experiential resource in his reach. Emphasis is placed on the position of the potential viewer in the communicative exchange that the artist begins with his work, hence being the receiver the one on whom the eventual jump to the symbolic level depends. Keywords: Painting, narration, literature, comunication, fine arts, contemporary art

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document