Atget's Seven Albums(Updated) (Yale Publications in the History of Art) by ProfessorMollyNesbit, Eugene Atget Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 1994 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05916-8, ISBN: 0-300-05916-7
"Between 1909 and 1915 Eugene Atget produced seven albums filled with photographs of Paris at the height of its belle epoque. The albums were prototypes for books that were never published. Now, Atget's albums are presented in full, edited with the sequencing and repetition that the great photographer intended. In addition, Atget's pictures are analyzed in a new way: as commercial picture documents produced by a photographer for the arti ..."
"Pubblicato in collaborazione con il Getty Grant Program. Testo di Molly Nesbit. Fotografie in b/n di Eugène Atget . 8vo pp. 428 Rilegato, sovracoperta (hard cover, dust jacket) Molto Buono (Very Good) Between 1909 and 1915 Eugene Atget produced seven albums filled with photographs of Paris at the height of its belle epoque. The albums were prototypes for books that were never published. Now, Atget's albums are presented in full, edited ..."
"Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A (b. 1967) has created ephemeral environments, sculptures, and drawings that examine the poetics of everyday life and the mysteries of imagination. This book, the first critical study of Koo's work, looks at the past two decades of her artistic practice, including her recent multimedia presentation commissioned by Dia Art Foundation. Following the artist's longtime interest in natural phenomena and sens ..."
Midnight The Tempest Essays: Pre-Occupations 2 by ProfessorMollyNesbit Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Inventory Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941753-14-9, ISBN: 1-941753-14-0
"Midnight: The Tempest Essays, the second book in Molly Nesbit’s Pre-Occupations series, returns the question of pragmatism to the everyday critical practice of the art historian working in the late 20th century. These essays take their cues from the work of specific artists and writers, beginning in the late 1960s, a time when critical commentary found itself in a political and philosophical crisis.Illustrated case studies on Eugène Atg ..."
"Art History and Emergency assesses art history’s role and responsibilities in what has been described as the “humanities crisis”—the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of critical essays and creative pieces addresses several thought-provoking questions on the subject. For instance, as this so-called crisis is but the latest of many, what part has “crisis” played in t ..."
"From 1992 to 2004, Dia Art Foundation presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, in which a distinguished array of scholars, critics and cultural historians engaged in cross-disciplinary critical discourse around Dia's exhibition program. The lectures were subsequently collected into a related series of publications, providing a valuable record and extending the debate on contemporary artistic practice and theory. This fi ..."
"The pragmatism of Charles Peirce and William James and John Dewey exists as it moved, absorbing and absorbed. Conclusions remain provisions, time riding on, perpetually unsettled, nocturnal, opaque. Many questions and conditions remain. They will recur. The future has not eased. In our own lifetime there have been stakes, some old, some new, in continuing to write about the time and place and point of art. It is important to mark them. ..."
" La pubblicazione nasce da una collaborazione tra lo spazio newyorkese Park Avenue Armory e Pirelli HangarBicocca in occasione delle mostre H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS (a cura di Hans Ulrich Obrist e Alex Poots, con Tom Eccles, 2015) e Hypothesis (a cura di Andrea Lissoni,2015).La monografia offre una approfondita analisi del lavoro di Philippe Parreno e raccoglie testi di Cyril Béghin, Molly Nesbit, Brian O'Doherty, Adam Thirlwell e due intervi ..."
"Filled with reproductions of Kehinde Wiley's bold, colorful, and monumental work, this book encompasses the artist's various series of paintings as well as his sculptural work--which boldly explore ideas about race, power, and tradition. Celebrated for his classically styled paintings that depict African American men in heroic poses, Kehinde Wiley is among the expanding ranks of prominent black artists--such as Sanford Biggers, Yinka Sh ..."
"In 2009, 12 years after acquiring the Duchamp collection of Ronny van de Velde, the Staatliche Museum Schwerin launched a Duchamp Research Center. This publication is the second volume of the Center's "Poeisis" series, inaugurated in 2011 with "Impuls Marcel Duchamp." "The Indefinite Duchamp" assembles essays by Duchamp expert Thomas Girst, interviews with Duchamp's contemporaries and quotations from peers."
"In August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, "Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau, 2° le gaz d'éclairage" ("Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas"). Now, ..."
"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 documenta ..."
"Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova The Making of 'Once is Nothing' How to Say
No while Still Saying Yes? Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova were invited, as
representatives of Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and BAK in Utrecht
respectively, to contribute to the Brussels Biennial. With 'Once is Nothing'1 they
tried, from their position of institutional responsibility, to find an answer to the
fleeting character of many biennials and their ..."