fb pixcode

20TH CENTURY MOVEMENTS

PUBLISHER
Walker Art Center

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 8 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 600 color / 100 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 143   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781935963233 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $85.00 GBP £53.00

AVAILABILITY
In stock

TERRITORY
WORLD

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Minneapolis, MN
Walker Art Center, 04/18/20–07/26/20

THE SPRING 2025 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our SPRING 2025 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

WALKER ART CENTER

The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance

Edited with text by Vincenzo de Bellis. Foreword by Mary Ceruti. Text by Manuel Cirauqui, Jadine Collingwood, Hendrik Folkerts, Emma Lavigne, Catherine Wood.

How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by Félix González-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and more

Presenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and visual gesture, featuring practitioners who have constructed static or near-static experiments that hover somewhere between action and representation as they are experienced in the gallery space. The exhibition investigates performance from the perspective of the object rather than the body, examining how performance has reinterpreted traditional artistic mediums.

Stillness and permanence are qualities typically seen as inherent to painting and sculpture—consider the frozen gestures of a historical tableau or the unyielding solidity of a bronze figure. The Paradox of Stillness, however, expands the artwork’s quality of stillness to accommodate uncertain temporalities and physical states, investigating works that merge objects with human bodies suspended in motion. Featuring artists whose works include performative elements but also embrace acts, objects and gestures that refer more to the inert qualities of painting or sculpture than to true staged action, The Paradox of Stillness rethinks the history of performance through its aesthetic investigations into the interplay of the fixed image and the live body.

Artists include: Marina Abramovic, Merce Cunningham, Giorgio de Chirico, VALIE EXPORT, Gilbert and George, Félix González-Torres, Maria Hassabi, Jannis Kounellis, Kasimir Malevich, Piero Manzoni, Robert Morris, Senga Nengudi, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Oskar Schlemmer, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Cindy Sherman, Mario Garcia Torres and Franz West.


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

AIGA 50 Books|50 Covers

Paul Sahre

The offset deboss is everything.

The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance

in stock  $60.00


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

FORTHCOMING AND NEW: ART

How Evil Is Pop Art?

HOW EVIL IS POP ART?

Mousse Publishing

ISBN: 9788867493418
USD $33.00
| CAD $45

Pub Date: 2/19/2019
Active | Out of stock


Access Kafka

ACCESS KAFKA

Kerber

ISBN: 9783735610140
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Splendor and Misery

SPLENDOR AND MISERY

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783753306605
USD $60.00
| CAD $90

Pub Date: 11/12/2024
Active | Out of stock


Post-Impressionism: Beyond Appearances

POST-IMPRESSIONISM: BEYOND APPEARANCES

SKIRA PARIS

ISBN: 9782370742568
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 2/4/2025
Active | In stock


Manzar: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today

MANZAR: ART AND ARCHITECTURE FROM PAKISTAN 1940S TO TODAY

Silvana Editoriale

ISBN: 9788836659623
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


3D-Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art

3D-DOINGS: THE IMAGIST OBJECT IN CHICAGO ART

DelMonico Books

ISBN: 9781636811659
USD $65.00
| CAD $95 UK £ 55

Pub Date: 6/24/2025
Forthcoming


Northern Lights

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775759151
USD $75.00
| CAD $110

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Italian Futurism, 1909–1944

ITALIAN FUTURISM, 1909–1944

Guggenheim Museum

ISBN: 9780892075126
USD $55.00
| CAD $82 UK £ 47

Pub Date: 1/1/2014
Active | In stock


Surrealism through Its Journals 1924–2024

SURREALISM THROUGH ITS JOURNALS 1924–2024

SKIRA

ISBN: 9788857252940
USD $40.00
| CAD $60

Pub Date: 3/25/2025
Forthcoming


Donation Glicksman

DONATION GLICKSMAN

MAMCO Geneva

ISBN: 9782940656127
USD $29.95
| CAD $44.95 UK £ 24.99

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Casablanca Art School

CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL

Spector Books

ISBN: 9783959058483
USD $40.00
| CAD $60

Pub Date: 4/29/2025
Forthcoming


Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968

ORDINARY PEOPLE: PHOTOREALISM AND THE WORK OF ART SINCE 1968

DelMonico Books/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

ISBN: 9781636811000
USD $69.95
| CAD $99.95 UK £ 59.99

Pub Date: 11/5/2024
Active | In stock