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Digital Performance
The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts.
The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices, presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances, and analyzes the theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts of this form of new media art. Dixon finds precursors to today's digital performances in past forms of theatrical technology that range from the deus ex machina of classical Greek drama to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (concept of the total artwork), and draws parallels between contemporary work and the theories and practices of Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, Futurism, and multimedia pioneers of the twentieth century.
For a theoretical perspective on digital performance, Dixon draws on the work of Philip Auslander, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and others. To document and analyze contemporary digital performance practice, Dixon considers changes in the representation of the body, space, and time. He considers virtual bodies, avatars, and digital doubles, as well as performances by artists including Stelarc, Robert Lepage, Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Blast Theory, and Eduardo Kac. He investigates new media's novel approaches to creating theatrical spectacle, including virtual reality and robot performance work, telematic performances in which remote locations are linked in real time, Webcams, and online drama communities, and considers the extratemporal illusion created by some technological theater works. Finally, he defines categories of interactivity, from navigational to participatory and collaborative. Dixon challenges dominant theoretical approaches to digital performance--including what he calls postmodernism's denial of the new--and offers a series of boldly original arguments in their place.
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Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
For the past seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog has followed the evolution of a new, kinetic species. Intricate as insects, but with bursts of equine energy, the "Strandbeests" or "beach creatures," are the creation of Dutch artistTheo Jansen, who has been working for nearly two decades to develop a new life-form that moves, and even survives, on its own.
Set to roam the beaches of Holland, the Strandbeests pick up the wind in their gossamer wings and spring, as if by metamorphosis, into action. As if it were blood, not the breeze, running through their delicate forms, they quiver, cavort, and trot against the sun and sea, pausing to change direction if they sense loose sand or water that might destabilize their movement.
Coinciding with a travelling exhibition, Herzog's photographic tribute captures Jansen's menagerie in a meditative black and white, showcasing Jansen'simaginative vision, as well as the compelling intersection of animate and inanimate in his creatures. The result is a work of art in its own right and a mesmerizing encounter not only with a very surrealist brand of marvelous, but also with whole new ideas of existence.
The author and photographer:
Born and raised in Russia’s Urals, Lena Herzog studied languages and literature at St. Petersburg University, before emigrating to the United States in 1990 where she studied philosophy. She began taking pictures in 1997, and has since authored the photography books Tauromaquia, Flamenco, Pilgrims, and Lost Souls. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Vanity Fair and exhibited in Europe and the United States.
The artist:
Dutch visual artist Theo Jansen studied science at the University of Delft. He spent his early career painting, before deciding to strike out on a new course by making a real flying saucer which flew over Delft in 1980. Since then he has been working on the creation of the Strandbeest species. Jansen’s work has been featured in several television programs, as well as in The New Yorker, New Scientist, and Wired.
The contributing author:
Lawrence Weschler is Director Emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. A former staff writer at The New Yorker, he is the author of over 15 books, including the Pulitzer-nominated Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonderand Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. He is a contributing editor at Threepenny Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and McSweeney's.
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Luis Bunuel
Cinema has been a fortunate art form. It had the immense good fortune to seduce Orson Welles and Marcel Pagnol away from theatre, Pasolini and Jean Cocteau away from poetry, and Stanley Kubrick away from chess. It was a comparable stroke of luck that Luis Bu&241&894uel, one of the most brilliant representatives of the surrealist movement, chose to make films and was able to make them with unflagging fidelity to his principles for fifty years.After an audacious Parisian showing of Un Chien Andalou in 1929 (Bu&241&894uel carried stones in his pockets in case he needed them to fend off the audience), Bu&241&894uel’s subsequent career in Spain (Las Hurdes), Hollywood and Mexico (Los Olvidados, Robinson Crusoe, El, Nazarin) before returning to France (Diary of a Chambermaid, Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire), showed that the only subjects he cared to make films about were the three that are never supposed to be discussed in polite society: sex, religion, and politics.
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On the Waves of TSF
The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (19011986) and Karel Teige (19001951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves o
f TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and founding members of the artists group Devětsil. Karel Teige laid out the verses of his friend Jaroslav Seifert as striking typ
ographical poems. Purportedly, he depleted nearly all the font cases he could find at Obzinas printing shop. In any case, he faithfully fulfilled the precepts of poetism about the world and poetryto be multisensory. Imbued with all the beauties
of the world, Seiferts verses are introduced with a mischievously reversed paraphrase of Karel Hynek Máchas (18101836) famous words: Light grief on the face / Deep laughter in the heart. With the effortlessness mimicking wireless transmission, Sei
fert and Teige transport us to Paris (Seifert visited the City of Light with Teige in 1924), to places where pineapples grow, to Australia, Marseille, New York, to distant ocean shores, and back to the banks of the Vltava river in Pragueall this fac
ilitated, as it were, by Télégraphie sans fil (literally from French: wireless telegraphy). To be sure, the greatest concern of the lyrically gloomy narrator is joyfully unambiguous honeymoon destinations; if die we must, let us die of love... In sub
sequent editions (1938), Seiferts youthful manifesto was titled Svatební cesta (Honeymoon). Understandably so, because the changed circumstances of Czech poetry hardly allowed for stepping into the same river twice; the former associates parted ways
in their creative endeavors. Teige became a multifaceted art theoretician and embraced surrealism. After breaking with the communist party in 1929, Seifert became a lifelong social democrat and devoted himself primarily to newspaper journalism. The
first edition of Na vlnách TSF gradually became rare until only reprints allowed us to explore the sources of this visual, almost hedonistic poetry. As a reprint, the collection is appearing for the fifth time, this time in its most faithful facsimil
e incarnation and in two independent permutationsin the original Czech version and as an English-Czech remake by Zdeněk Trinkewitz, translated by Dana Loewy. The Czech-born translator lives in the United States where early in her career, she won a s
tudent translation prize by the American Translators Association (1992). Subsequently, she received an honorary mention by the foremost Czech translators association and her translations of Jaroslav Seiferts early work were published in 1997 by Hydr
a Books, a division of Northwestern University Press.
Az Álmok Palotája
A Franciaországba emigrált világhírű albán író - akárcsak az Ulpius-ház gondozásában megjelent előző két könyvében, a Kettétört április-ban és A háromlyukú híd-ban - most is a bennünket körülvevő realista, hétköznapi világot szövi át - a szó szoros értelmében - szürrealista álommá. Az Álmok Palotája a diktatúrák működési mechanizmusának könyörtelen leleplezése, nem véletlen hát, hogy megjelenésekor rögtön évekre betiltották. A történelmi parabolában ősi regék, mitikus idők emlékei keverednek kafkai víziókkal, s a végletekig fokozott parancsuralmi rendszer ördögi modellje tárul elénk, melyben a birodalmi gépezet észrevétlenül bedarál mindenkit, a jó szándékúakat, a naivakat, az ártatlanokat egyaránt. Mark-Alem, a regény főszereplője azt hiszi, hogy az Álmok Palotájában majd szép csendesen meghúzhatja magát. Csakhogy ez a diktatúrákban aligha lehetséges, s amikor szembekerül az álommal, amely egész családja sorsát megpecsételi, kiderül, hogy nincs menekvés, és ő maga is a gátlástalan manipulációk áldozatául esik.
A számtalan irodalmi díjjal jutalmazott és többször is Nobel-díjra jelölt albán író könyveit már negyven országban adták ki. Kritikusai Kertész Imrével, Milan Kunderával, Umberto Ecóval, Günter Grass-szal, José Saramagóval együtt az európai irodalom vezető alakjai közé sorolják.
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Edge of Vision
From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle Rexer examines abstraction at pivotal moments, starting with the inception of photography, when many of the pioneers believed the camera might reveal other aspects of reality. The Edge of Vision traces subsequent explorations--from the Photo Secessionists, who emphasized process and emotional expression over observed reality, to Modernist and Surrealist experiments. In the decades to follow, in particular from the 1940s through the 1980s, a multitude of photographers--Edward Weston, Aaron Siskind and Barbara Kasten among them--took up abstraction from a variety of positions. Finally, Rexer explores the influence the history of abstraction exerts on contemporary thinking about the medium. Many contemporary artists--most prominently Ilan Wolff, Marco Breuer and Ellen Carey--reject photography's documentary dimension in favor of other possibilities, somewhere between painting and sculpture, that include the manipulation of process and printing. In addition to Rexer's engagingly written and richly illustrated history, this volume includes a selection of primary texts from and interviews with key practitioners and critics such as Edward Steichen, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and James Welling.
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Coin Locker Babies
Coin Locker Babies is Ryu Murakami's cult cyperpunk novel. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes. One becomes a bisexual rock star and looks for his mother, while the other one, an athlete, seeks revenge. This savage and stunning story unfolds in a surrealistic whirl of violence. Coin Locker Babies is translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder and published by Pushkin Press 'A cyber-Bildungsroman of playful breadth and uncertain depth' Publishers Weekly 'A fascinating peek into the weirdness of contemporary Japan' Oliver Stone 'Like a cross between a Grimms fairy tale and Katsuhiro Otomo's classic manga comic series Akira...A deliriously ambitious novel...recalls Thomas Pynchon.' Ben Jeffery, Times Literary Supplement A great big pulsating parable ...wildly undisciplined, occasionally tongue-in-cheek.' Washington Post 'The explosive rhythms of hard rock, the intensity of emotions, and the highly vivid images make ...Murakami's postmodern novel an exceptionally successful one' World Literature Today Ryu Murakami is the enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese literature.Awarded the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his first book, a novel about a group of young people drowned in sex and drugs, he has gone on to explore with cinematic intensity the themes of violence and technology in contemporary Japanese society. His novels include Coin Locker Babies, Sixty-Nine, Popular Hits of the Showa Era, Audition, In the Miso Soup and From the Fatherland, with Love. Murakami is also a screenwriter and a director; his films include Tokyo Decadence, Audition and Because of You.
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Surrealisti
V ďalšej z inšpirujúcich publikácií edície Umelci a ich diela – Surrealisti - ponúka Tim Martin prehľad diel i stručnú charakteristiku umelca, navodzuje atmosféru doby i okolností, za ktorých vybrané diela vznikli. Prekrásny výber prác je obohatený odborným úvodom Dr. Mika O’Mahonyho. Ak dnes označíme udalosť alebo zážitok za „surreálny“, každý vie, čo máme na mysli. Slovo automaticky navodzuje predstavu čohosi tajomného a nádherného, pocit nesúvislosti a dezorientácie, nevysvetliteľnosti a neznáma. Predstavujeme si svety, v ktorých ryby plávajú po oblohea neživé objekty sa pred našimi očami menia na živé bytosti. No takéto predstavy, ktoré sú skôr v súlade so svetom snov a nočných môr než s každodenným životom, azda nepochádzajú až tak z našej predstavivosti, ale poznáme ich skôr z kresieb, malieb a sôch, ktoré vytvorila skupina umelcov pôsobiacich prevažne v období medzi dvoma vojnami.
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Umělcova skutečnost
Malířské začátky Marka Rothka (1903 Litva – 1970 USA) byly ovlivněny jak figuralisty (Edward Hopper), tak surrealisty, poté co se jeho hlavní představitelé Breton a Ernst začlenili během svého nuceného válečného exilu do okruhu newyorské avantgardy. Vlast
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Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow CD
Tracklist:
She Has Funny Cars 3.10,
Somebody to Love 2.58,
My Best Friend 3.01,
Today 2.59,
Comin' Back to Me 5.18,
3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds 3.41,
D. C. B. A. - 25 2.37,
How Do You Feel 3.31,
Embryonic Journey 1.53,
White Rabbit 2.30,
Plastic Fantastic Lover 2.37,
In the Morning 6.21,
J.J.P. Mc Step B. Blues 2.37,
Go to Her 4.02,
Come Back Baby 2.56,
Somebody to Love 2.58,
White Rabbit 5.20
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Toyen (angl.)
Monografie významné malířky Toyen (1902–1980), která právem patří mezi přední výtvarníky českého a evropského malířství 20. století. Toyen byla členkou řady důležitých avantgardních uměleckých skupin (Devětsil, Skupina surrealistů v ČSR), po emigraci se stala členkou pařížské surrealistické skupiny. Její tvorba i dnes zůstává nedoceněna, často je však připomínán její vztah k dnes tak aktuálnímu feminismu. Obrazově bohatá publikace vyjde u příležitosti první české retrospektivní výstavy, kterou připravuje Galerie hlavního města Prahy v Domě U Kamenného zvonu. Kniha obsahuje cca 480 reprodukcí obrazů, množství dobových statí. Anglická verze.
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Lee Miller: Photographs
Over one hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer, model, and surrealist muse Lee Miller, published in anticipation of the film Lee starring Kate Winslet as Miller.
Photojournalist, war correspondent, model, and surrealist muse, Lee Miller was one of the most important women photographers of the twentieth century, working in the fields of photojournalism, fashion, portraiture, and advertising. This book presents over one hundred of Miller’s finest works in a single volume.
Introduced to photography at an early age, Miller honed her craft in Paris, where she associated with the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, including Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. Together with Man Ray, she discovered the distinctive technique of solarization to create mesmerizing halo effects. After establishing her own photographic studio in New York, where she became a prominent commercial photographer, she then moved to the Middle East and Europe before becoming the official war photographer for Vogue, a period during which she took many of her most iconic photographs.
This evocative book collects Miller’s most famous documentary, fashion, and war works, as well as photographs of Miller. They are all carefully compiled by her son, photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by actress Kate Winslet, who will star as Miller in the film Lee.
2 color and 120 black-and-white illustrations
Bloody Brilliant People: The Couples And Partnerships That History Forgot
'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, "Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?"' CAITLIN MORAN
From rivals propelling each other forwards to friends combining their talents, it's clear: often two heads are better than one.
How did William and Ellen Craft work together to pull off a perilous cross-country escape from slavery? How did the queer artists Marcel Moore and Claude Cahun become icons of the surrealist movement, then heroines of the resistance in the Second World War? Why couldn't Steve Jobs have started Apple alone?
Vibrant, feminist and unexpected, Cathy Newman rewrites the history books to expose this strange power of two - and to ask why certain collaborators are so often left out of the narrative.
Gregerie
Stále moderní a objevný je jazykový vynález slavného španělského surrealisty. Gregerie je specifický literární útvar na pomezí zrnka moudrosti, sentence, vtipu, slovní hříčky, náhodně zaslechnuté věty, jazykového paradoxu či nonsensu. Tohle všechno mohou, ovšem také nemusejí být gregerie.
Mai
Nejznámější česká báseň o lásce a smrti, Máchův "Máj", v novém, zvukomalebném překladu do němčiny rakouského básníka českého původu Ondřeje Cikána (*1985). Dvojjazyčné, zrcadlové vydání s ilustracemi Antonína Šilara (*1986). S doslovem překladatele. "Es war spät Abend - erster Mai - abends der Mai - war Liebeszeit." Mit diesen Worten beginnt das Kurzepos über Liebe und Tod des tschechischen Romantikers Karel Hynek Mácha (1810-1836). Ein Räuberhauptmann wird hingerichtet, weil er die Verführung seiner Geliebten gerächt hat. In eindrucksvollen Bildern verabschiedet er sich von der Erde. Das Kurzepos "Mai" ist nicht nur eines der wichtigsten Werke der Romantik, es diente auch wegen seines avantgardistischen Bilderreichtums den tschechischen Surrealisten als Vorbild. Endlich erscheint es in einer zweisprachigen Ausgabe und in einer neuen, lautmalerischen Übersetzung des österreichisch-tschechischen Dichters Ondřej Cikán (*1985). Illustriert von Antonín Šilar (*1986).
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Toiletpaper Magazine 20
The latest creative collaboration between Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari
Since its first issue in June 2010, Toilet Paper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination. Combining the vernacular of commercial photography with twisted narrative tableaux and surrealistic imagery, the magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists' mental outbursts. The result is a publication that is itself a work of art, which, through its accessible form as a magazine and through its wide distribution, challenges the limits of the contemporary art economy.
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Wanderlust : A History of Walking
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker.
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