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Avant-Garde Museology

Arseny Zhilyaev, Editor

 

The book Avant-Garde Museology presents a collection of crucial essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism, by figures such as Nikolai Fedorov, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Bogdanov, Andrey Platonov and many others. Authors are  dealing with the question: How might the contents of the museum be reanimated so as to transcend even the social and physical limits imposed on humankind?

 

ISBN: 978-0-8166-9919-3

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Price: 35,00 EUR

 

 

 

Sensing Earth:  Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe

P. Dietachmair, P. Gielen, G. Nicolau (eds.)

 

Sensing Earth states that our enviornmental issues are in the first place a matter of culture and aesthetics. Technology and science are not enough to solve these problems. The book follows artists, analysts and activists on their cultural quests for an ecologically sustainable future. Introduces artistic concepts, practices, organizations and cultural communities that stand for moving away from the prevailing anthropocentric approaches.

 

ISBN: 978-94-93246-24-9

Publisher: Valiz in collaboration with  European Cultural Foundation

Price: 24,00 EUR

 

 

 

Navigation Beyon Vision

T. Holert, D. Mende (eds.)

 

Navigation Beyond Vision is concerned with how the shift from montage to navigation alters the way images—and art—operate as models of political action and modes of political intervention. Navigation begins where the map becomes indecipherable. Navigation operates on a plane of immanence in constant motion. Instead of framing or representing the world, the art of navigation continuously updates and adjusts multiple frames from viewpoints within and beyond the world. Navigation is thus an operational practice of synthesizing various orders of magnitude. Navigation.

 

ISBN: 978-3-95679-565-7

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Price: 19,00 EUR