Kunst - Buchhandlung Walther König

The „new art“ of the late 1960s was shown
in two landmark exhibitions in 1969: „Op
Losse Schroeven“ and „When Attitudes Become
Form“. This book reveals how each
brought together Arte Povera, Anti-Form,
Conceptual and Land art, whilst challenging
such categories and introducing innovative
curatorial approaches. Christian Rattemeyer
offers a rich comparative analysis
of the two exhibitions, exploring the related
but differing approaches of the two curators
– Wim Beeren and Harald Szeemann
– in two distinct institutional settings – the
Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the
Kunsthalle Bern. Numerous installation
photographs enable a virtual „walk through“
of each exhibition, while meticulous chronologies detail the negotiations
that shaped them. Crucial texts from the time are complemented by new
research and fascinating recent interviews with participating artists.
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HANTELMANN, DOROTHEA VON. How to Do Things with Art. Ed. by
Karen Marta. Zürich 2010. 206 S. mit 19 Abb., brosch.
At the heart of „How to Do Things with Art“ lies the question of art’s relevance
to society. How does art become politically or socially significant? This
book attempts to answer this question on a theoretical level, and to indicate,
through the analysis of works by James Coleman, Daniel Buren, Jeff Koons,
and Tino Seghal, how artists can create and shape social relevance; in other
words, to provide what could be called a pragmatic understanding of art’s societal
impact. The title of the book itself is a play on John Langshaw Austin’s
seminal lecture series „How to Do Things with Words,“ in which he discuss -
ed the performative, or reality-producing, capacity of language.
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KUNSTHANDELN. Hrsg. von Karin Gludovatz, Dorothea von Hantelmann
u.a. Zürich 2010. 182 S. mit einigen Abb., brosch.
In der Moderne und zunehmend seit den 1960er Jahren verlagert sich in der
Kunst die Aufmerksamkeit vom finalen Werk auf den Prozess des Produzierens.
Dieser ist nicht Mittel zum Zweck, sondern gewinnt, in Analogie zu
Aufführungspraktiken, Eigenwertigkeit. Im selben Zuge avanciert der kontemplative
Betrachter zum Teilhaber, ja, zum Mithandelnden des Kunstwerkes.
Auch die Kunst insgesamt wird als prozessual begriffen: als ein gesellschaftlicher
Bereich, der unterschiedlichste Akteure involviert und beständigen
Begriffs- und Verfahrensänderungen unterliegt.
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MININI, MASSIMO. Pizzini. Sentences on Conceptual Artists (and
Others)* Introd. by Barbara Casavecchia. Milan 2010. 218 S. mit einigen
Abb., Index, brosch. – Text in engl. & ital. Sprache.
A book that is also a memoir. Over his long career as a gallerist, Massimo
Mini has encountered a multitude of artists and forged lasting friendships
with many of them. In these 80 brief texts, Minini paints miniature portraits
that are irresistibly perspicacious-full of wry humor and empathy – telling
anecdotes of fellowships and misunderstandings, bizarre demands regarding
logistics and materials, the gargantuan efforts put into creating unforgettable
exhibitions, the artists he courted and the ones who got away. A small an -
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