Bøger af Eva Diaz

An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures

Social inequality, population growth, climate change. The artist Dawn DeDeaux does not shy away from difficult topics. Since the 1970s, she has been probing humanity's present and future in videos, performances, and installations. This catalogue, published to coincide with her first comprehensive museum exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, presents DeDeaux's work spanning five decades: from early multimedia works using radio and satellite to recent works from her MotherShip series, in which she imagines humanity's escape from a destroyed Earth. In her work, art is always closely intertwined with philosophy, science, and new technologies. Consequently, the text contributions go beyond art to contextualize her work. DAWN DeDEAUX (*1952) is a pioneer in the field of art and new technology. Based in New Orleans, she has had participated in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mass MoCa, and the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology, among others.

Aperture is a sophisticated guide to the world of contemporary photography that combines the finest writing with sumptuously reproduced portfolios. Presenting fresh perspectives by leading writers, art historians, and other thinkers, accessible to the photo practitioner and the culturally curious alike, each issue examines one theme at the heart of contemporary photography through essays, in-depth interviews, and immersive portfolios. Columns include On Portraits, The Collectors, Curriculum, and Object Lessons. Today, in a world awash in images, Aperture is an essential guide to the evolving story of photography.

Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twombly - the list goes on and on. This book reveals the influence of Black Mountain College.