Bøger af Klaus Biesenbach

Editor and P.S. 1/MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach credits the late Susan Sontag with sparking the idea for this survey of Body and Action art in the course of their conversations about artistic approaches that describe and question the human condition. Into Me / Out of Me gathers work focused on the imagined, descriptive and performative acts of passing into, through and out of the human body--explorations and visualizations of the wet and the dry, the inner and the outer--and the physical exchange of the body with the material world. Spanning over 40 years and featuring an international group of more than 130 artists, it addresses the primordial relationship between the internal and the external in three chapters: "Metabolism" (eating, drinking, excreting); "Reproduction" (intercourse, conception, birth); and "Violence" (shooting, impaling, perforation). Featured works range from Hannah Wilke's unflinching self-portraits in illness to Matthew Barney's performance-based installations to Kara Walker's antebellum figures. Artists include Chris Burden, Valerie Export, Bruce Nauman, Carolee Schneemann, Kiki Smith, Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Patty Chang, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ana Mendieta, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Frank Moore, Carolee Schneemann, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Marina Abramovic, among many others.

Die Publikation erscheint in einem eleganten Schuber, der vier Booklets enthält, ein Paperback und ein gefaltetes Catalogue Raisonné-Poster mit den Cover aller Björk-Alben in Briefmarkenformat.Booklet 1: Einführung des Herausgebers und Ausstellungskurators am Museum of Modern Art, New York, Klaus Biesenbach.Booklet 2: Illustrierter Essay von Alex Ross, Musik-Kritiker des New Yorker, der sich mit Björks kreativer Auflösung musikalischer und ästhetischer Grenzen beschäftigt.Booklet 3: Illustrierter Essay von Nicola Dibben, Professorin für Musikwissenschaft an der University of Sheffield, zu Björks Kreativität und Kooperationen.Booklet 4: E-Mail-Gespräch zwischen Björk und dem amerikanischen Publizisten, Philosophen und Literaturwissenschaftler Timothy Morton.Im Buch, dem Herzstück der Edition, geht es um Björks sieben große Alben und die Figuren, die sie dafür schuf. Zu poetischen Texten des isländischen Dichters Sjón, mit dem Björk seit langem zusammenarbeitet, kommen Photos von Live-Auftritten der Musikerin; Stills aus Musikvideos von Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham und Spike Jonze; Björk in atemberaubenden Kostümen von Designern wie Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan und Sophia Kokosalaki; und PR-Aufnahmen von Starphotographen wie Nan Goldin, Juergen Teller, Stéphane Sednaoui, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin und Araki.Alles zusammen ergibt ein außergewöhnliches visuelles Meisterwerk, eine Hommage an die magische Welt von Björk.

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