Author : Susan Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
An illustrated study of performance and video artist Joan Jonas's 1976 video, an elliptical narrative that moves between the countryside of Nova Scotia and a television studio in New York City.
Author : Joan Simon
Publisher : Gregory R Miller & Company
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780980024289
A career-spanning monograph of the multimedia pioneer Joan Jonas (1936- ) that covers more than 40 years of performances, films, videos, installations, texts and video sculptures
Author : Julienne Lorz
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN :
Joan Jonas emerged in a rich and experimental 1960s New York art scene that included such luminaries as Richard Serra, Gordon Matta-Clark, John Cage, Philip Glass, and Merce Cunningham. Since that time Jonas has gained a peerless status as a pioneer of performance and video. Jonas's work typically encompasses video, performance, installation, sound, text, and drawing. Defying easy categorization, it engages with complex ideas of ritual, myth, and storytelling. In recent years Jonas has also become increasingly engaged with environmental issues, focusing on the animal world and the vulnerability of our planet. This new publication includes an introduction to Jonas's practice and brings together selected conversations from the last fourteen years, in which the artist talks about her interdisciplinary approach as well as the influences and impulses she has absorbed from literature, music, traditional Japanese Noh theater, and the rituals of foreign cultures.
Author : Halldor Laxness
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307429881
Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced “ooh-a,” which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.
Author : Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 030748744X
An inspiring and no-nonsense guide for aspiring artists of all stripes—from “the most exciting individual in American theater” (Newsweek). In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, Anna Deavere Smith addresses the full spectrum of issues that all artists starting out will face: from questions of confidence, discipline, and self-esteem, to fame, failure, and fear, to staying healthy, presenting yourself effectively, building a diverse social and professional network, and using your art to promote social change. At once inspiring and no-nonsense, Letters to a Young Artist will challenge you, motivate you, and set you on a course to pursue your art without compromise.
Author : Joan Jonas
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Installations (Art)
ISBN :
Author : Frances Richard
Publisher : Cca Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780982503386
The CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco dedicates year long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2014-15, Joan Jonas (born 1936) was "on our mind." This book brings together essays from writers, curators, art historians and artists that focus on a single work, from Jonas' earliest films through her installation for the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. The book also contains excerpts from readings and public lectures, and images by some of the other artists whose work was evoked in public and private conversation. Contributors include Jacqueline Francis, Renée Green, Quinn Latimer, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Patricia Maloney, Elizabeth Mangini, Judith Rodenbeck and Lynne Tillman.
Author : Ute Meta Bauer
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Site-specific installations (Art)
ISBN : 9783775740517
"'Joan Jonas: They Come to Us without a Word' documents Jonas's project for the United States Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, an expansive installation that incrporates multiple components, included projected videos, drawings, and objects. Each section of the pavilion represents a particular creature (bees, fish), object (mirror), force (wind), or place (homeroom). Recited fragments of ghost stories sourced from the oral tradition of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, form a continuous narrative linking one room to the next. As Jonas says, 'We are haunted, the rooms are haunted.' Designed with Jonas's close collaboration, this fully illustrated book features an extensive collection of images selected by the artist, including stills, drawings, and photographs, that not only document this ambitious and important new work but form an integral part of the presentation and experience of 'They Come to Us without a Word'. Also included are Jonas's poetic notes on her process and major new texts from ann Reynolds and Marina Warner as well as an interview with the artist by Ingrid Schaffner." -- Publisher.
Author : LAURE. PROUVOST
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781906012991
Author : Joan Jonas
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
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