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Brancusi Vs. United States, the Historic Trial, 1928

Posted on by Margit Rowell,André Paleologue

Author: Margit Rowell,André Paleologue

Publisher: Vilo Publishing

ISBN: N.A

Category: Art museums

Page: 144

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When Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York in October 1926 with a consignment of Brancusi sculptures for a one-man exhibition of the sculptor's work, a series of events began which resulted in a new definition of art in America. The American Customs authorities denied Brancusi's sculptures the duty-free entry which normally applied to works of art, on the grounds that the works did not appear to be sculpture. Duchamp appealed on Brancusi's behalf, and the resulting trial, Brancusi vs. United States, became famous as the moment at which the legal definition ora work of art changed to embrace the modern. The trial focussed around the 1923 work, Bird in Space. Slender, tapered and bronze in color, with a mirror-like surface, to the authorities it appeared to be some kind of industrial object, certainly not one with the characteristics of art: Q: Why do you regard Exhibit I as not a work of art? A: It is too abstract and a misuse of the form of sculpture... I don't think it has the sense of beauty. Q: ... If it had been given a head to it would that have aroused that sense of beauty in you to designate it as art? Now, for the first time, the complete minutes of the trial are available -- reprinted from the original transcript preserved in the Museum of Modern Art Library, New York.
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Provoking Democracy

Posted on by Caroline Levine

Why We Need the Arts

Author: Caroline Levine

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 0470766255

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 256

View: 7977

A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in democratic governance at home and abroad. Covers a broad range of topics, from disputes over public art, copyright, and obscenity, to the operations of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Cold War Highlights detailed and at times shocking debates over the role of the rebellious artist within society
Posted in Literary Criticism

Kunsturteile

Posted on by Sandra Frimmel

Gerichtsprozesse gegen Kunst in Russland nach der Perestroika

Author: Sandra Frimmel

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar

ISBN: 3412225118

Category: Art

Page: 334

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Seit der Jahrtausendwende werden in Russland außergewöhnlich viele Gerichtsprozesse gegen Kunst, Künstler und Kuratoren geführt. Am Beispiel der beiden größten Prozesse gegen die Organisatoren der Ausstellungen "Achtung, Religion!" und "Verbotene Kunst 2006" befasst sich die Autorin mit dem Aushandeln der Bedeutung von Kunst(werken) und mit ihrer gesellschaftspolitischen Wirkung im Kontext des Gerichts. Im Fokus steht die Frage, mit welchen Mitteln durch die Prozesse versucht wird, einen normativen Kunstbegriff nicht nur argumentativ zu verhandeln, sondern auch dauerhaft und rechtlich verbindlich zu fixieren. Wie wird diskutiert, was die Kunst in Russland heute soll, darf und kann? Wie wirkt die Kunst? Und wo liegen die Grenzen der Kunstfreiheit?
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Models of Integrity

Posted on by Joan Kee

Art and Law in Post-Sixties America

Author: Joan Kee

Publisher: University of California Press

ISBN: 0520299388

Category: Art

Page: 320

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Models of Integrity examines the relationship between contemporary art and the law through the lens of integrity. In the 1960s, artists began to engage conspicuously with legal ideas, rituals, and documents. The law—a primary institution subject to intense moral and political scrutiny—was a widely recognized source of authority to audiences inside the art world and out. Artists frequently engaged with the law in ways that signaled a recuperation of the integrity that they believed had been compromised by the very institutions entrusted with establishing standards of just conduct. These artists sought to convey the social purpose of an artwork without overstating its political impact and without losing sight of how aesthetic decisions compel audiences to see their everyday world differently. Addressing the role that law plays in enabling artworks to function as social and political forces, this important book fills a gap in the field of law and the humanities, and will serve as a practical “how-to” for contemporary artists.
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Censoring Sex

Posted on by John E. Semonche

A Historical Journey Through American Media

Author: John E. Semonche

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN: 0742572757

Category: History

Page: 310

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In this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up until the present. He covers the various forms of American media—books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, and radio, television, and the Internet. Despite the varieties of censorship, running from self-censorship to government bans, a common story is told. In each of the areas, Semonche explains via abundant examples how and why censorship took place. He also details how the cultural territory contested by those advocating and opposing censorship diminished over the course of the last two centuries.
Posted in History

Forms

Posted on by Caroline Levine

Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network

Author: Caroline Levine

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 1400852609

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 192

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Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today—how to connect form to political, social, and historical context. Caroline Levine argues that forms organize not only works of art but also political life—and our attempts to know both art and politics. Inescapable and frequently troubling, forms shape every aspect of our experience. Yet, forms don't impose their order in any simple way. Multiple shapes, patterns, and arrangements, overlapping and colliding, generate complex and unpredictable social landscapes that challenge and unsettle conventional analytic models in literary and cultural studies. Borrowing the concept of "affordances" from design theory, this book investigates the specific ways that four major forms—wholes, rhythms, hierarchies, and networks—have structured culture, politics, and scholarly knowledge across periods, and it proposes exciting new ways of linking formalism to historicism and literature to politics. Levine rereads both formalist and antiformalist theorists, including Cleanth Brooks, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Mary Poovey, and Judith Butler, and she offers engaging accounts of a wide range of objects, from medieval convents and modern theme parks to Sophocles's Antigone and the television series The Wire. The result is a radically new way of thinking about form for the next generation and essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities who must wrestle with the problem of form and context.
Posted in Literary Criticism

Art and Museum Law

Posted on by Robert C. Lind,Robert M. Jarvis,Marilyn E. Phelan

Cases and Materials

Author: Robert C. Lind,Robert M. Jarvis,Marilyn E. Phelan

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Law

Page: 718

View: 1588

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Annual Bibliography of Modern Art

Posted on by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library

Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Library

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Art, Modern

Page: N.A

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A.C.A.D.E.M.Y.

Posted on by Kunstverein in Hamburg,Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen,Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum,Siemens Arts Program

Author: Kunstverein in Hamburg,Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen,Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum,Siemens Arts Program

Publisher: Christoph Keller Revolver Verlag

ISBN: N.A

Category: Art

Page: 279

View: 9091

A plea for public institutions to be open fields of learning, as formal education has its agenda set by notions of free market productivity. An "academy" can help to articulate incoherent dissatisfaction, and help to point us towards knowledge as yet unknown.
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America, History and Life

Posted on by Eric H. Boehm

Author: Eric H. Boehm

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: United States

Page: N.A

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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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The Guggenheim - die Sammlung

Posted on by Edward Weisberger

Author: Edward Weisberger

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9783775717755

Category: Art, Modern

Page: 343

View: 1464

Posted in Art, Modern

Chinati

Posted on by N.A

das Museum von Donald Judd

Author: N.A

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9783832193300

Category:

Page: 327

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The Art world

Posted on by Barbaralee Diamonstein

a seventy-five-year treasury of ARTnews

Author: Barbaralee Diamonstein

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

ISBN: N.A

Category: Art

Page: 459

View: 1696

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Atelier und Galerie

Posted on by Brian O'Doherty

Studio and Cube

Author: Brian O'Doherty

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9783883962764

Category:

Page: 96

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Wiedersehen mit Brideshead

Posted on by Evelyn Waugh

Die heiligen und profanen Erinnerungen des Captain Charles Ryder

Author: Evelyn Waugh

Publisher: Diogenes Verlag AG

ISBN: 3257603436

Category: Fiction

Page: 464

View: 6496

›Wiedersehen mit Brideshead‹ ist das englische Gegenstück zum amerikanischen ›Großen Gatsby‹: das Porträt der Schönen und Reichen in den Jahren zwischen den Weltkriegen, die Chronik einer Vertreibung aus dem Paradies bei Anbruch der modernen Zeit – und die Geschichte einer unmöglichen Liebe.
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Ubu Roi

Posted on by Alfred Jarry

Author: Alfred Jarry

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: 9783892353010

Category:

Page: 107

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