NOVOSTI V KNJIŽNICI SCCA-LJUBLJANAww.ljudmila.org/scca

NOVELTIES IN SCCA-LJUBLJANA LIBRARY

 

- Expanding Circles: Women, Art & Community (An Anthology) ed. by Betty Ann Brown, Midmarch Arts Press, New York 1996

(The book is about the women who created a new kind of art community and through that redefine the word »community«.)

- Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track. Tourism, Art, and Place, The New Press, New York 1999

(Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural critisism, anthropology, and community activism for an in-depth look at how tourism sites are concived and represented. Lippard discusses the political economies of leisure spaces, the tourist's fascination with tragic destinations, and our willingness to let national parks and heritage sites define nature and history.)

- But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Ed. by Nina Felshin, Bay Press, Seattle 1996

(An anthology documents the recent explosions of art that agitates for progressive social change. Writers explore the provocative methods of activist artists who reject conventional art practices in favor of public sites and community participation.)

- The Cultural Studies Reader (Second Edition), Ed by Simon During, London and New York 1999

- Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World, Ed. by Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, and Lyman Tower Sargent, The New York Public Library/Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford 2000

(An unprecedented history of utopia in Western culture from its sources in antiquity through the end of the twentieth century.)

- Rereading Post-Partum Document: Mary Kelly, Ed by Sabine Breitwieser, Generali Foundation, Wien 1999

(Mary's Kelly Post-Partum Document is a seminal work of the seventies in which the notion of the site-specific is adressed in a completely new way. In her critical engagement with psychoanalysis and feminism as well as her provocative stance vis-a-vis conceptualism, Mary Kelly succeeded in creating a multi-faceted artwork documenting one of Modernism's central and most symptomatic blindspots: woman as artist and mother.)

- Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World, Ed by Catherine de Zegher, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Generali Foundation, Vienna and The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 1999

(Key words: art, photography, video, feminism)

- Things we don't Understand (Dinge, die wir nicht verstehen), Ed. by Roger M. Buergel, Ruth Noack, Sabine Breitwieser, Generali Foundation, Wien 1999

(The catalogue documents how artists from Germany, Austria, France, USA look at the issue of how social engagement and the aestethetic autonomy can be connected. In different political and historical contexts, they rely on the effects of irritations which do not frustrate the mind but rather transform it.)

- White Cube/Black Box: Skulpturensammlung: Valie Export & Gordon Matta-Clark, Ed. by Sabine Breitwieser, EA-Generali Foundation, Wien 1996

(Key words: video, installation, film)