ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 4/25/2024 The Strand presents Joshua Charow launching 'Loft Law'DATE 3/31/2024 Behold the photographic work of Jay DeFeo, born OTD in 1929DATE 3/30/2024 Seminary Co-op presents the Chicago launch of Danny Lyon's 'This Is My Life I'm Talking About'DATE 3/15/2024 A gorgeous and compelling new exploration of bodega culture from rising star, Tschabalala SelfDATE 3/15/2024 Vintage girl power in ‘Las Mexicanas’DATE 3/14/2024 Celebrate Pi Day with 'Einstein: The Man and His Mind'DATE 3/12/2024 Kindred Stores presents Anita N. Bateman on 'Where is Africa'DATE 3/12/2024 Hot book alert! ‘God Made My Face’ is NEW from Dancing Foxes Press and Brooklyn MuseumDATE 3/11/2024 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the launch of 'Richard Nonas'DATE 3/7/2024 Letterform Archive Press presents 'The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930' with Gennifer WeisenfeldDATE 3/7/2024 Visions of the Black figure in ‘The Time is Always Now’DATE 3/7/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chloe Sherman and Noelle Flores Théard on 'Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s'DATE 3/6/2024 Yelena Yemchuk to launch 'Malanka' at Dashwood Books | EXCERPTS & ESSAYSMING LIN | DATE 12/1/2011Documenta Notebooks: William Kentridge & Peter L. Galison, The Refusal of TimeThough not always explicit, a preoccupation with time has inherently been a factor in western works of art. Drawing from it's religious antecedents, works of the early modern period attempted to immortalize their creators, securing both the notion of the individual and the place of the artist within the canon - both essential parts of the modern nation state. Art, by providing a material imprint, acted as proof of ones existence and as a window into a higher realm of thought. For a moment, art harnessed time, froze it, and used it to project certain ideas about how society should organize itself. |