Author: Naima J. Keith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942949407
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989 is the first solo museum exhibition focused exclusively on the American artist's early bodies of work. Widely regarding as one of the leading exponents of Post-minimalist art in the late 1970s, Charles Gaines is known primarily for his photographs, drawings and works on paper that investigate systems, cognition and language. This exhibition catalogue includes full-color reproductions of works included in the exhibition from series produced between 1974 and 1989, including Numbers & Trees (1989), Motion: Trisha Brown Dance (1981) and Walnut Tree Orchard (1975), among others; newly commissioned essays by Anne Ellegood, Malik Gaines, Naima J. Keith, Courtney J. Martin, Howard Singerman, Bennett Simpson, Ellen Tani, with an introduction by Studio Museum Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden; introductory texts for each series; and an illustrated chronology.
Charles Gaines
Author: Naima J. Keith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942949407
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989 is the first solo museum exhibition focused exclusively on the American artist's early bodies of work. Widely regarding as one of the leading exponents of Post-minimalist art in the late 1970s, Charles Gaines is known primarily for his photographs, drawings and works on paper that investigate systems, cognition and language. This exhibition catalogue includes full-color reproductions of works included in the exhibition from series produced between 1974 and 1989, including Numbers & Trees (1989), Motion: Trisha Brown Dance (1981) and Walnut Tree Orchard (1975), among others; newly commissioned essays by Anne Ellegood, Malik Gaines, Naima J. Keith, Courtney J. Martin, Howard Singerman, Bennett Simpson, Ellen Tani, with an introduction by Studio Museum Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden; introductory texts for each series; and an illustrated chronology.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942949407
Category : African American art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989 is the first solo museum exhibition focused exclusively on the American artist's early bodies of work. Widely regarding as one of the leading exponents of Post-minimalist art in the late 1970s, Charles Gaines is known primarily for his photographs, drawings and works on paper that investigate systems, cognition and language. This exhibition catalogue includes full-color reproductions of works included in the exhibition from series produced between 1974 and 1989, including Numbers & Trees (1989), Motion: Trisha Brown Dance (1981) and Walnut Tree Orchard (1975), among others; newly commissioned essays by Anne Ellegood, Malik Gaines, Naima J. Keith, Courtney J. Martin, Howard Singerman, Bennett Simpson, Ellen Tani, with an introduction by Studio Museum Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden; introductory texts for each series; and an illustrated chronology.
The Theater of Refusal
Author: Charles Gaines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Pumping Iron
Author: Charles Gaines
Publisher: Creators Publishing
ISBN: 1949673766
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
WHO ARE THEY AND WHY DO THEY DO IT? –these men who dedicate themselves to building bodies like Hellenistic statues; who crisscross the world competing for titles as grandiose yet as publicly uncelebrated (Mr. America, Mr. Universe, Mr. Olympia) as their gargantuan physiques; whose daily lives are as rigidly defined and regulated by their obsession to mold the ideal body as any other master athlete's is towards perfecting his craft. Yet, rather than the public acclaim that normally follows an athletic triumph, only their fellow muscle men know who they are and know the price they have paid to win their incredible bodies. Novelist Charles Gaines and photographer George Butler have spent the last two years trying to capture the essence of this strange, joyful, exotic world: “We have been to quite a few places tracking bodybuilders, seeing contests and putting together the materials here. If we felt at times a little like 19th-century explorers –like Doughty, perhaps, off trekking through Arabia –it was because we found bodybuilding to be as primeval and unmapped as parts of Labrador. Nobody, we discovered, had been back into it to send a report on what it was like. This struck us then as peculiar, and it still does.
Publisher: Creators Publishing
ISBN: 1949673766
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
WHO ARE THEY AND WHY DO THEY DO IT? –these men who dedicate themselves to building bodies like Hellenistic statues; who crisscross the world competing for titles as grandiose yet as publicly uncelebrated (Mr. America, Mr. Universe, Mr. Olympia) as their gargantuan physiques; whose daily lives are as rigidly defined and regulated by their obsession to mold the ideal body as any other master athlete's is towards perfecting his craft. Yet, rather than the public acclaim that normally follows an athletic triumph, only their fellow muscle men know who they are and know the price they have paid to win their incredible bodies. Novelist Charles Gaines and photographer George Butler have spent the last two years trying to capture the essence of this strange, joyful, exotic world: “We have been to quite a few places tracking bodybuilders, seeing contests and putting together the materials here. If we felt at times a little like 19th-century explorers –like Doughty, perhaps, off trekking through Arabia –it was because we found bodybuilding to be as primeval and unmapped as parts of Labrador. Nobody, we discovered, had been back into it to send a report on what it was like. This struck us then as peculiar, and it still does.
In the Shadow of Numbers
Author: Charles Gaines
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981895598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Shadow of Numbers accompanies a survey exhibition and collects for the first time new writings and images on the influential Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines (born 1944). Gaines investigates the relationships between aesthetic experience, political beliefs and the formation of meaning. His work over the last 40 years has typically employed systems and rule-based procedures to explore how we experience and derive meaning from art. Although Gaines is often linked with Conceptual artists of the 1960s, he identifies more closely with John Cage s examinations of indeterminacy in both composition and performance. The book includes an extensive selection of images of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video from several bodies of Gaines s work over the last several decades.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981895598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Shadow of Numbers accompanies a survey exhibition and collects for the first time new writings and images on the influential Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines (born 1944). Gaines investigates the relationships between aesthetic experience, political beliefs and the formation of meaning. His work over the last 40 years has typically employed systems and rule-based procedures to explore how we experience and derive meaning from art. Although Gaines is often linked with Conceptual artists of the 1960s, he identifies more closely with John Cage s examinations of indeterminacy in both composition and performance. The book includes an extensive selection of images of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video from several bodies of Gaines s work over the last several decades.
The Next Valley Over
Author: Charles Gaines
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510717927
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Acclaimed sporting and adventure writer Charles Gaines has spent much of his life on the water, around the world, fishing rod in hand, angling for trout, redfish, salmon, bonefish, bass, marlin, tuna, and practically everything else that swims. Just about any place where there's water to fish and eccentrics to keep him company, Gaines has been. The Next Valley Over, a collection of his best writing on fishing from his long and storied career, is culled from the pages of Men's Journal, Forbes, and Sports Afield, among other publications, and ultimately is about the heart of the sport. While his stories are lined with the accoutrement of angling--the art of technique, the equipment, the lodges, the fish themselves--they're really about why we love to fish and what it means to our culture. As Thoreau once said: “Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” What “they are after” is what Charles is curious about, and he has devoted the better part of his life and sanity to coming up with answers. Starting and ending at the majestic Lake Tadpole in St. Clair County, Alabama, where Gaines’s love of fishing was initially sparked, the Next Valley Over chronicles exploits in exotic locations with eccentric characters. In the process of his quest of nearly every species known to man, Gaines explores what we are really searching for when we fish.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510717927
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Acclaimed sporting and adventure writer Charles Gaines has spent much of his life on the water, around the world, fishing rod in hand, angling for trout, redfish, salmon, bonefish, bass, marlin, tuna, and practically everything else that swims. Just about any place where there's water to fish and eccentrics to keep him company, Gaines has been. The Next Valley Over, a collection of his best writing on fishing from his long and storied career, is culled from the pages of Men's Journal, Forbes, and Sports Afield, among other publications, and ultimately is about the heart of the sport. While his stories are lined with the accoutrement of angling--the art of technique, the equipment, the lodges, the fish themselves--they're really about why we love to fish and what it means to our culture. As Thoreau once said: “Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” What “they are after” is what Charles is curious about, and he has devoted the better part of his life and sanity to coming up with answers. Starting and ending at the majestic Lake Tadpole in St. Clair County, Alabama, where Gaines’s love of fishing was initially sparked, the Next Valley Over chronicles exploits in exotic locations with eccentric characters. In the process of his quest of nearly every species known to man, Gaines explores what we are really searching for when we fish.
Survival Games
Author: Charles Gaines
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871136848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Two men must use the survival and tracking skills they had only applied to games when their wives are kidnapped during a weekend getaway at the couples' country home
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871136848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Two men must use the survival and tracking skills they had only applied to games when their wives are kidnapped during a weekend getaway at the couples' country home
Stay Hungry
Author: Charles Gaines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bodybuilders
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bodybuilders
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Akademie X
Author: Marina Abramovic
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714867366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Assembled from the wisdom of 36 legendary art teachers – all of them artists or critics at the top of their field – Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life is an ideal curriculum for the aspiring artist. Each of the book’s "tutors" has provided a unique lesson that aims to provoke, inspire and stimulate the aspiring artist. These lessons cover some combination of the following: technical advice (e.g. don’t make a sculpture bigger than your studio door), assignments (some of which will take five minutes to complete, others five years), tips for avoiding creative ruts (including suggestions for mind‐expanding materials to read, watch or listen to), principles of careful looking (demonstrated with images of artworks, photographs, films or even billboard advertisements), advice on the daily practice of art (how to balance time alone in the studio with building an artistic community), career pointers (how to prepare for a studio visit from a curator or gallerist) and personal anecdotes (e.g. stories from the instructor’s own humble beginnings). Taken together, these lessons offer the reader a set of tools for thinking, seeing and living as an artist. Not only is Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life the first illustrated text book of its kind for artists, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art, providing first hand revelations into the philosophies and techniques of some of the world’s best artists and writers.
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714867366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Assembled from the wisdom of 36 legendary art teachers – all of them artists or critics at the top of their field – Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life is an ideal curriculum for the aspiring artist. Each of the book’s "tutors" has provided a unique lesson that aims to provoke, inspire and stimulate the aspiring artist. These lessons cover some combination of the following: technical advice (e.g. don’t make a sculpture bigger than your studio door), assignments (some of which will take five minutes to complete, others five years), tips for avoiding creative ruts (including suggestions for mind‐expanding materials to read, watch or listen to), principles of careful looking (demonstrated with images of artworks, photographs, films or even billboard advertisements), advice on the daily practice of art (how to balance time alone in the studio with building an artistic community), career pointers (how to prepare for a studio visit from a curator or gallerist) and personal anecdotes (e.g. stories from the instructor’s own humble beginnings). Taken together, these lessons offer the reader a set of tools for thinking, seeing and living as an artist. Not only is Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life the first illustrated text book of its kind for artists, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art, providing first hand revelations into the philosophies and techniques of some of the world’s best artists and writers.
Terry Adkins
Author: Terry Adkins
Publisher: Levy Gorvy
ISBN: 9781944379216
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This fully illustrated book explores the materiality of Terry Adkins's sculptures. The exhibition was curated by Charles Gaines, a celebrated artist and longtime friend and collaborator of Adkins's, who contributed an illuminating essay to this publication that explores the physicality and experience of viewing Adkins's sculptures. The catalogue also includes an essay by Michael Brenson, and newly commissioned poetry by Robin Coste Lewis. Exhibition: Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York, USA (10.01.-17.02.2018).
Publisher: Levy Gorvy
ISBN: 9781944379216
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This fully illustrated book explores the materiality of Terry Adkins's sculptures. The exhibition was curated by Charles Gaines, a celebrated artist and longtime friend and collaborator of Adkins's, who contributed an illuminating essay to this publication that explores the physicality and experience of viewing Adkins's sculptures. The catalogue also includes an essay by Michael Brenson, and newly commissioned poetry by Robin Coste Lewis. Exhibition: Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York, USA (10.01.-17.02.2018).
Howardena Pindell
Author: Naomi Beckwith
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 3791357379
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 3791357379
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago