The Arts: General Issues

The oeuvre of Peter Land (*1966 in Aarhus) revolves around the subject of man''s failure to accomplish the everyday and existential tasks of life. ...

In his essay, Arjun Appadurai reflects on the significance of Gandhi''s ideas on non-violence as a form of political action in India, pursuing the ...

Mario Bellatin's oeuvre is characterized by an experimental and fragmented mode of narration that artfully links reality and fiction. In his text, ...

Writing notes is an essential component of academic life, a ritual that is performed with as many handwritings as there are individuals. In her ess...

In recent decades, the art world''s interest in archives has increased steadily, developing into a true compulsion to archive. In her text, Suely...

Expand your shredding into the brave new world of the Classical violin repertoire with one of the great masterpieces: Tchaikovsky's Violin Concert...

Helge Achenbach (*1952) is one of the world''s most prominent art consultants. He could even be described as the inventor of this metier. This book...

In 1973, an employee of the Deutsche Bank in Heidelberg identified the influential sociologist of literature and Marxist Gyoergy Lukacs (1885-1971)...

Notebook 089 is a result of the immense changes that have taken place in the world since 1989. With the end of the Cold War, the utopian neoliberal...

According to Roy Wagner''s anthropological approach, the unspoken, the unheard, and the unknown are just as important as what is there. The absence...

Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism...

William Lim discovered his love for art at an early age. A decade ago he began collecting systematically, concentrating on works by emerging contem...

In this notebook, artist Francesco Matarrese undertakes a new reading of two Modernist texts: In an extreme encounter he contrasts Recentness of...

In his contribution, philosopher Éric Alliez visually translates his planned book on diagrammatic thought and its implications for the field of con...

How does one act in the midst of a revolution? With the key question, What shall I do? the author unravels a chain of thoughts in which she quest...

How can it be that the Artistic Director of the dOCUMENTA (13) can talk about a certain kind of obsolescence of the exhibition ? Dorothea von Hant...

Issa Samb (*1945) is a Senegalese sculptor, painter, actor, philosopher, performance artist, author, critic, and co-founder of the interdisciplinar...

Departing from the curatorial structure of dOCUMENTA (13) and its four states of being-under siege, on stage, on retreat, and in a state of hope-Iw...

In his notebook, philosopher Pascal Rousseau uses the medium of hypnosis and an account of its followers to draw a line from the fin de siecle to t...

The German inventor Christian Kuhtz is convinced that a good conscience is nothing that can be bought, but something that has to be achieved throug...

For his notebook, the artist, writer and curator Raimundas Malasauskas stages a fictional seance with five other participants: the burlesque legend...

Is the middle class our new revolutionary class? In his notebook, Brian Holmes attempts to connect Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, the Spanish...

Claire Pentecost's Notes from Underground uncover a peculiar and trans-disciplinary knowledge about soil, its preferences and inhabitants. We lea...

In My View is a collection of reflections by 78 contemporary artists in which each artist reveals the influence and inspiration he or she has found...

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the p...

Votre Voisin est Quelqu'un est un projet de reunion et de decouverte de vingt-quatre artistes aux univers tres differents, qui ne demandent qu'a et...

An authoritative history and analysis of the beautiful European arts of calligraphy, treasures of the world. Beautiful colour illustrations

Ruelle sombre, Sol, , deambule dans son quartier du South Pigalle, le SoPi. Un bon Miles Davis en mode play. Vingt ans d''une vie vouee au jazz, di...

Brahms e sempre stato oggetto di una massiccia attenzione da parte della letteratura musicologica, in modo particolare il suo corpus sinfonico. Gli...

The visual arts of Polynesia offer a richly diverse and relatively little known body of work, covering an enormous geographical area yet linked by ...

Meme si aujourd'hui elle est arrivee au sommet, ses debuts ont ete bien difficiles. Mylene Farmer est connue pour ses textes tres recherches et ses...

UrbanVoids(TM) presenta venti progetti basati sulla combinazione di piu attivita (commerciali, lavorative, infrastrutturali, residenziali e ambient...

A journey into the headspaces and workplaces of some of Britains most unique artists, from the co-author of the critically acclaimed H...

Communication Futures: Connecting interdisciplinary design practices in arts/culture, academia and the creative industries. Site-Specific projectio...