Ragnar Kjartansson English Edition

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111263
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ragnar Kjartansson (English edition) written by Ragnar Kjartansson and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragnar Kjartansson’s singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and opera, plein air painting and music. He often produces large-scale multidisciplinary projects and the production of his works often requires the collaboration of several participants―actors, musicians, friends and family members. Experimenting the mechanisms of theatre and the dramatic impulses of tragedy, Ragnar Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of melodramatic actions and in revealing the reality on which relies every interpretation. Through repetition, which is genuine motif in his work, Ragnar Kjartansson enlightens the theatricality and efforts at work in everyday life. Book contents - “Once Again”: An essay by Laure Fernandez. - “Only He Who Knows Desire”: A conversation between Ragnar Kjartansson and Julien Fronsacq. About the authors - Laure Fernandez is a researcher in performing arts. Her research projects focus in particular on the idea of theatricality in the contemporary visual arts. - Julien Fronsacq is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo and the curator of Ragnar Kjartansson’s solo exhibition. Book published on the occasion of Ragnar Kjartansson’s solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, “Seul celui qui connaît le désir,” 21.10 2015 – 10.01 2016

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End written by Ragnar Kjartansson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Christian Schoen. Text by Cecilia Alemani, Markus Th. Andresson.

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783863359706
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ragnar Kjartansson written by Ragnar Kjartansson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published alongside the exhibition at the Barbican, London (14 July - 4 September 2016), 'bringing together live performance, music, film, painting, sculpture and drawing' - and the first UK survey of this internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist.The fully illustrated book features a pictorial autobiography compiled by Ragnar Kjartansson himself, and is designed by John Morgan studio. Clichés and motifs of Western culture, romantic melancholy and even his own conception, provide the personal and often playful subject matter of the artist

Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307430316
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Light written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet’s life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness. As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this extraordinary novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf’s ambition drives him onward—and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women—World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing environment and even the most unpromising human vessel.

Author : Alexander Dumbadze
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603867X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bas Jan Ader written by Alexander Dumbadze and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. The damaged boat was found south of the western tip of Ireland nearly a year later. Ader was never seen again. Since his untimely death, Ader has achieved mythic status in the art world as a figure literally willing to die for his art. Considering the artist’s legacy and concise oeuvre beyond the romantic and tragic associations that accompany his peculiar end, Alexander Dumbadze resituates Ader’s art and life within the conceptual art world of Los Angeles in the early 1970s and offers a nuanced argument about artistic subjectivity that explains Ader’s tremendous relevance to contemporary art. Bas Jan Ader blends biography, theoretical reflection, and archival research to draw a detailed picture of the world in which Ader’s work was rooted: a vibrant international art scene populated with peers such as Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, and Allen Ruppersberg. Dumbadze looks closely at Ader’s engagement with questions of free will and his ultimate success in creating art untainted by mediation. The first in-depth study of this enigmatic conceptual artist, Bas Jan Ader is a thoughtful reflection on the necessity of the creative act and its inescapable relation to death.

Author : Christian Schoen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775732833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Art Today written by Christian Schoen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icelandic culture is so strongly oriented towards language that the visual arts didn't truly begin to develop until the early twentieth century - which is remarkable for a Western country. This unique situation may explain the nature of the contemporary art scene in Iceland. Even though Conceptual art remains a considerable international influence, and globalization is most certainly affecting this isolated island in the North Atlantic, Icelandic art continues to develop at its own speed, marked by a playful creative energy and the pleasure of experimentation. Icelandic Art Today introduces 50 of the country's most important artists - including Finnbogi Petursson, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Helgi Thorgils Fridjonsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Katrin Sigurdardottir, Margret H. Blondal, Olafur Olafsson + Libia Castro, Ragnar Kjartansson and Ruri and Steingrimur Eyfjord - who have contributed to the contemporary landscape of Icelandic art from the 1970s through the present. Essays by historian and curator Christian Schoen, critic Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson and Director of the Reykjavik Art Museum Hafthor Yngvason trace the development of Iceland's avant-garde over the past 40 years.

Author : Massimiliano Gioni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ragnar Kjartansson written by Massimiliano Gioni and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Celina Lunsford
Publisher : Crymogea
ISBN 13 : 9789935420169
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of another nature written by Celina Lunsford and published by Crymogea. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiers of Another Natureoffers a definitive survey of the photographic arts in Iceland over the past 150 years, including Spessi, B�ra Kristinsd�ttir, Haraldur J�nsson, Hrafnkell Sigursson, Katr�n Elvarsd�ttir, Einar Falur Ing�lfsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, P�tur Thomsen, Ingvar H�gni Ragnarsson, P�tur Thomsen and many others.

Author : Ragnar Kjartansson
Publisher : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9788793659681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ragnar Kjartansson: Epic Waste of Love and Understanding written by Ragnar Kjartansson and published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorian Gaudin
Publisher : Art Book Magazine Distribution
ISBN 13 : 2847111212
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dorian Gaudin (English edition) written by Dorian Gaudin and published by Art Book Magazine Distribution. This book was released on 2018-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorian Gaudin focuses on the interplay of correspondences between the organic, psychical, and material worlds. Combining performance, sculpture and cinema, his oeuvre moves back and forth between automation and living systems. He mobilizes, dislocates, and mechanizes in an amalgamation of genres: absurdist theater, science fiction cinema, burlesque and Minimalism. In his exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo machines and social rituals, visual illusion and physical presence set in motion a mechanism which is also that of the emotions. Revealing the capacity of objects to generate narrative and elicit our emotional and intellectual involvement, his works remind us of the way fetishization of objects and technology governs our relationship with the world. Book Contents - “Incomparable Theatre”: The Splendid Ambiguity of Dorian Gaudin’s Machines” an essay by Kate Sutton - “The Mechanism of the Emotions”: interview between Dorian Gaudin and Julien Fronsacq About the authors - Kate Sutton is a writer currently based in Zagreb. In addition to writing articles and reviews for magazines including Artforum, Bidoun, Frieze, Ibraaz, and LEAP, Sutton is a regular contributor to Artforum.com. In 2013, she was recognized with an Art Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. - Julien Fronsacq is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. He curated Dorian Gaudin’s solo show. A book published on the occasion of Dorian Gaudin’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 03.02 – 08.05 2017