As a medium of critical analysis, can art reflect America's present situation? This volume features sculptures, installations, painting, photography and videos that address the U.S. now. Artists include Janine Antoni, Joe Amrhein, Spencer Finch, David Herbert, Joan Jonas, Nina Katchadourian, Karyn Olivier, Joyce Pensato, William Pope.L and others.
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"…It is important to acknowledge that "carnival" is an expansive term… It refers to annual per-Lenten celebrations and rituals such as Fasching in Germany, Carnevale in Venice, and Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago (among many others), but also to road shows, traveling circuses, vigorous festivals, roadside attractions and amusement parks. Moreover, as the great Russian writer Mikhail Bakhtin pointed out, carnival situations can also arise in the midst of normal, daily life. In Bakhtin's terms, the 'carnivalized moment' or the 'carnivalized situation' are those moments when the normal rules, values, hierarchies and modes of apprehension are temporarily suspended in favor of a brand new freedom, which can be simultaneously ungainly and exhilarating, bewildering and liberating. These carnivalized moments do not seek to transcend normal life; they don't try to substitute a keen new consciousness for an enervated one. Instead, both mundane and carnivalized life exist together, and one moves between the two, entering the carnivalized situation in order to be tested and transformed and then returning to one's normal life--perhaps shaken, perhaps deepened--with some of the wisdom that one has gained…"
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 298 pgs / 40 color / 95 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $42.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $55 ISBN: 9783941185203 PUBLISHER: Verlag für moderne Kunst AVAILABLE: 4/30/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME
Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst. Edited and text by Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk.
As a medium of critical analysis, can art reflect America's present situation? This volume features sculptures, installations, painting, photography and videos that address the U.S. now. Artists include Janine Antoni, Joe Amrhein, Spencer Finch, David Herbert, Joan Jonas, Nina Katchadourian, Karyn Olivier, Joyce Pensato, William Pope.L and others.
