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Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy
Edited by Victoria Noorthoorn
Foreword by Susan Segal
Beginning with a Bang! features the shift between the explosive and experimental moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s, and the current scene emerging after the extreme crises in Argentina during the last 40 years. The exhibition catalogue brings together a historical section as well as information of performance-based actions and sound and video works by Argentine contemporary artists.
Paperback 2008
Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self
Ernst Van Alphen
Paperback / Hardcover
The Shape of Content
Ben Shahn
Hardcover 1957 / Paperback 1992
The Theory of the Avant-Garde
Renato Poggioli
Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the avant-garde is both symptom and cause of many major extra-aesthetic trends of our time, and that the contemporary avant-garde is the sole and authentic one.
Hardcover 1965 / Paperback