La peste di Milano del 1630

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens. This current state of the arts and its recent history are represented via more than 150 works by 55 artists, including Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Fischli & Weiss, Ann Hamilton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida H fer, Thomas Ruff, J rge Sasse, Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Sam Taylor-Wood, Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Vanessa Beecroft, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patty Chang, Trisha Donnelly, Stan Douglas, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, John Pilson and Gillian Wearing.

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Bosz

Alberto Stabile, Laura Barreca
Museo civico Castelbuono

Giulia Pirelli, Carlo Orsi
Bruno Alfieri Editore

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Kulturforschung

John d Green, David Tree
The Macmillan Company

Giordano Morganti
Silvana Editoriale

Ferdinando Scianna
Franco Sciardelli

David Muench, Edward Abbey
Chanticleer Press Edition

Gabriella Nessi Parlato, Gianni Berengo Gardin
Edition Raetia

William Klein
Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore

Rossella Menegazzo
Mondadori Electa

Le vicissitudini di Felice Beato (1832-1909) - il fotografo veneziano sbarcato in Giappone nel 1863 - e la bellezza dei suoi scatti sono lo specchio di un'epoca di fermento e incroci culturali. L'Europa guarda al lontano ed esotico Oriente con curiosità, anche grazie alle immagini straordinarie di Beato e degli altri fotografi giapponesi e stranieri residenti nell'arcipelago, mentre il Giappone si apre e accoglie nelle sue zone portuali, specialmente a Yokohama, le novità della scienza europea. A partire dal 1860 e fino al 1900 le elegantissime stampe all'albumina colorate a mano secondo l'insegnamento di Beato mostreranno al mondo i paesaggi e le architetture, gli usi e i costumi, le mode e le bellezze di un Paese tutto da scoprire.