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Cover of Documents No 1, 1929. Documents was a Surrealist art magazine edited by Georges Bataille. Published in Paris from 1929 through 1930, it ran for 15 issues, each of which contained a wide range of original writing and photographs. Documents was financed by Georges Wildenstein, an influential Parisian art dealer and sponsor of the ...
The Illuminated Book: Conserving an Art Form The term illuminated manuscript comes from two sources, both of which originated in Medieval Latin. The first is manuscriptus, a combination of manu ‘by hand’ and scriptus ‘written’. The second is the Latin word illuminare, which translates to ‘adorned’.
Documents: A Magazine of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture was a triannual arts magazine published between 1992 and 2004. The five founding editors were Chris Hoover, Miwon Kwon, James Marcovitz, Helen Molesworth and Margaret Sundell. [1]
José Bernal Romero (January 8, 1925 – April 19, 2010) was a Cuban-American artist, born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas (now Villa Clara).He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1980.
documenta, the first ever to turn a profit, featured a selection of pop art, minimal art and kinetic art. [6] Adopting the theme of Questioning Reality – Pictorial Worlds Today, the 1972 Documenta radically redefined what could be considered art by featuring minimal and conceptual art, marking a turning point in the public acceptance of those ...
He facilitates and documents game-like group encounters that experientially probe dissociative phenomena, critical psychology, and performance art history. The resulting immersive situations, video and objects are often made in collaboration with researchers, craftspeople, and public participants.
New Documents was an influential [1] documentary photography exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1967, curated by John Szarkowski. [2] It presented photographs by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand and is said to have "represented a shift in emphasis" [3] and "identified a new direction in photography: pictures that seemed to have a casual, snapshot-like look and ...
Art and (aesthetic) mythology, according to Dewey, is an attempt to find light in a great darkness. Art appeals directly to sense and the sensuous imagination, and many aesthetic and religious experiences occur as the result of energy and material used to expand and intensify the experience of life.