Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher-including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics-most published here for the first time. The California conceptu
Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished. Nam June Paik (1932-2006) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern
Hans Haacke's art articulates the interdependence of multiple elements. An artwork is not merely an object but is also its context -- the economic, social, and political
Jack Burnham is one of the few critics and theorists alive today who can claim to have radically altered the way we think about works of art. Burnham's use of the term "system" (borr
As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were testing the boundaries of "the camera arts" in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writin
If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested indifficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that aclub sandwich and o
In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist startedblogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing socialcommentary, criticism of govern
As Hollis Frampton's photographs and retreated experimental films were testing the boundaries of the camera arts in the 1960s and 1970s, his provocative and highly literate writings were alternating t
Artist Mel Bochner became a writer, he says, almost by accident. In 1965, as a youngartist in New York, he was out of a job; Arts Magazine paid him $2.50 for every review he turnedin, whether they pub
Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social
Pioneering conceptual artist Vito Acconci began his career as a poet. In the 1960s, before beginning his work in performance and video art, Acconci studied at the Iowa Writers Workshop and published p
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What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing network of focused conflations" from whichMike Kelley's styles are generated is on display in all its diversity in this second volume of theartist's writings.
What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing network of focused conflations" from whichMike Kelley's styles are generated is on display in all its diversity in this second volume of theartist's writings.
These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premisethat making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point ofview of Art & Lan
Imaging Desire, Mary Kelly's long-awaited collection of writings from 1976 to 1995,asks fundamental questions about the analysis of current practices in art and makes rigorousarguments for a criticism
Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? Who is absent? These questions focus on how cultures are constructed through pictures and words, how we are seduced into a world of appearances: into a pose of
Just as Carl Andre's sculptures are "cuts" of elemental materials, his writings arecondensed expressions, "cuts" of language that emphasize the part rather than the whole. Andre, acentral figure in mi
150年前，臺灣鳥類的博物繪圖，是全歐洲達官顯貴爭相預購的珍奇150年後，由臺灣專家團隊，重現當年風華維多利亞時代最著名的鳥類學家兼出版人約翰・古爾德（John Gould），在他的鉅作《亞洲鳥類》（Birds of Asia）巨大開本的精裝七卷中，收錄了530張鳥類的全彩繪圖，大部分照鳥類等比例繪製，並且配有說明文字，整理當時科學界對圖版中鳥的生態知識。其中多幅繪圖描繪了來自臺灣的特有鳥種，像是藍腹鷴、臺灣藍鵲、五色鳥等。這些作品以當時頂尖的石版印刷技術製作，而後逐幅手工上色，不僅在科學上極具參考價值，更因為畫風優雅寫實，成為十九世紀自然圖譜出版的藝術高峰。這些「福爾摩沙鳥類」的圖版，當年曾在歐洲的收藏家間引起轟動，甚至成為王公貴族和達官顯貴書房中的炫耀話題。150年後的今天，我們重新翻開這些圖像，除了驚艷於當時精細的畫工與敏銳的鳥類生態觀察，更令人意外的是：這麼美的臺灣，為什麼我們從未聽聞？《臺灣珍鳥重現》挑選《亞洲鳥類》中和臺灣相關的65張鳥類圖版，完整翻譯原文，並邀集臺灣鳥類和科學繪圖專家，逐幅撰寫導覽和賞析文字，不只帶讀者理解每一幅圖像背後的物種特徵與背景，也補充150年前繪製時的知識局限與技術挑戰。此外，書前更收錄五篇導讀專文，從古爾德的生平、十九世紀自然圖譜的製作技術到催生圖鑑的時代風氣，皆由該主題之專家撰寫，以利讀者領略必要的背景知識。在印刷與裝幀上，本書也力求還原當時的典雅質感。從鳥類圖版之色彩校正、紙張選擇與整體裝幀設計，皆反覆斟酌，讓今日讀者捧讀在手時，能感受到十九世紀原作的莊重與美感。這不僅是一本鳥類圖鑑復刻，更是一場紙上展覽，一次穿越時空的文化盛宴，也是一次追尋臺灣故事的機會。《臺灣珍鳥重現》讓我們發現，早在百餘年前，臺灣之美就曾驚豔世界。
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