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At the forefront of Mexico's social revolution in the first half of the twentieth century were three artists whose murals resonated throughout the Americas and beyond: Through dialogues between the works of diverse artists, this catalogue proposes a reflection on our current perception of disaster.

Text by Sabrina Mandanici, Gudula Metze, et al. Disegno explores the ongoing relevance of drawing. Through the work of a renowned group of international artists, Displaced Fractures explores the idea of architecture as human surrogate--where the cracks in buildings are analogous to the fissures of human existence.

Text by David Pescovitz, Kazys Varnelis, et al. Dissident Futures presents art that investigates possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation, such as existing power, economic and technological structures. Foreword by Kate Fowle. Text by Bruce Altshuler. Introduction by Bill Arning. Text by Dean Daderko, Litia Perta. It explores possibilities for performance without living bodies. Draw celebrates the basis of visual and graphic art: This publication accompanies parallel exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York, and Drawing Room, London, that explore the relationship between linguistic communication and drawing in recent art.

Punk Funk Edited by Ivy Cooper. Essay by Shannon Fitzgerald. Foreword by Paul Ha. Self-taught, Chicago-based artist Dzine born Carlos Rolon in has gone from graffiti on the streets to showing in the galleries of Tokyo, Paris, Madrid and New York. Foreword by Neil Barclay, Renaud Proch. Introduction by Magnus af Petersens. In the years following the Second World War, artists across the world began to attack the most basic premises of painting, in ways that were both aggressive and playful.

Interviews by Michael Juul Holm. Op art had its inception in the middle of the s and its glory days in the s, when it established itself internationally across political and cultural contexts. Introduction by John R. If family is often considered the backbone of civilization, it has undergone serious rethinking over the past few decades. Though the technology for transmitting information long-distance dates from the nineteenth century, it was the fax machine, made commercially available in the s, that turned facsimiles into a primary form of communication.

For Fernweh , eight established European and American curators traveled around Scotland, visiting art venues that investigate the relationship between place, hospitality, collaboration, distance and the urban-rural dialogue. A Fiction of Authenticity presents seminal moments for challenging prevailing notions about interculturalism and postcolonial subjects. Text by Jenelle Porter. Figuring Color looks at the work of four artists who use color and shape to represent a metaphorical body. Today, it is a virtual protection system in an electronic data system.

Ludlow 38 is the downtown satellite for contemporary art of the Goethe-Institut New York. Focusing on Los Angeles and Philadelphia, First Among Equals considers the various modes that contemporary artists have developed to work with each other and reach across generations through negotiation and dialogue. A selection of artworks by international artists dealing with the food theme and all its implications. Since , the influential independent Geneva art space Forde has provided an open environment for experimental curatorial programming, encouraging critical dialogues across disciplines.

Text by Isabel de Vasconcellos. Originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV, it remained empty because of a lack of funds. II Edited by Urs Fischer. Jeffrey Deitch, curator of the groundbreaking Deste Foundation exhibition Fractured Figure , describes the concept thus: In their own highly individualistic styles, Illinois natives Mark Forth and David Hodges combine the mundane and the absurd, producing paintings that vividly conjure Middle America.

Text by Lilian Haberer, Stefanie Kreuzer. This volume present works by seven women who work in the field of conceptual sculpture: Introduction by John Corbett. In , the year that the Armory Show hit Chicago, an anonymous Chicago artist gathered every newspaper clipping from the infamous Art Institute exhibition into an extraordinary handmade document.

Published to accompany the Deutsche Guggenheim survey curated by American artist Collier Schorr, Freeway Balconies unfolds more as an artist's book than a straightforward exhibition catalogue. Contemporary Chinese society has been called a culture at the crossroads of the past and the future, and nowhere is this tension more apparent than in Chinese ink painting today.

Color Spaces Edited by Christiane Fath. How consciously do we experience color, light and space? Does a room seem too wide or long because of its color? Does the outside color scheme of a building anticipate the inside? Tansaekhwa on Abstraction Text by Joan Kee. This volume explores, from a historical perspective, the development and increasing interest towards an art created outside the boundaries of official culture.

Frontier looks at graffiti and street art from the s to the present. Future Perfect collects German artists who explore ideas of futurity. Artists in the still-young Federal Republic of Germany were quick to adopt Pop art shortly after its emergence in Britain and America in the s. Hypothesis for an Exhibition Edited by Begum Yasar. Text by Germano Celant, et al. Contributions by Richard Prince. A work of a multigenerational group of artists who engage in a complex analysis of American popular culture, entertaining a love-and-hate relationship with the founding myths of the American dream.

Introduction by Kate Fowle. Preface by Daria Zhukova. Hacking Habitat confronts a theme affecting a wide audience: Text by Robert Storr. In the mid s, Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of artists collectively known as the Imagists. This provocative publication explores the reexamination and the redeployment of forms and devices drawn from Minimal art by numerous contemporary artists. The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft assesses the latest developments in the ever-increasing overlap between contemporary art and craft. Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world.

Introduction by Philippe Vergne. Installation photography by Bill Diodato. Emergences-Resurgences One of the key works of the poet and artist Henri Michaux whose original approach intertwines the written word with his visionary paintings and drawings. This catalogue, accompanying the New Museum exhibition Here and Elsewhere , presents the work of over 45 artists who share roots in the Arab world and a critical sensibility with regard to images and image-making.

This book looks at the state of contemporary painting through the work of ten artists: This publication documents diverse approaches to the theme of interiors in contemporary art. Yao, Philip Tinari, Kito Nedo. Hong Kong Artists is the first international publication dedicated to a new generation born between the late 70s and early 80s, currently emerging in the Hong Kong art scene.

Text by Adam Budak. It conducted new research and experiments on the relationship between humans and technology. Italian design marked a highly distinctive mark on the way that the form of objects is perceived in contemporary society. Ils Sont Peintres They are Painters considers paintings that have avoided the figurative, narrative, Neo-Expressionist trends that have defined the medium in recent years. Image Counter Image looks at artistic explorations of media representation of conflict over the past two decades. Short story by Emilio Coccimiglia.

In Numbers is the first volume to address an overlooked art form that is neither artist's book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique entity: Index Roma features critical and descriptive essays on the work of resident artists and researchers at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome founded in Following the rapid economic and cultural developments on the Indian subcontinent in recent years, Indian Highway is a timely snapshot of a new generation of artists. This dynamic new volume is the first major survey to chronicle the emergence and migration of Pop art from an international perspective, focusing on the period from the s through the early s.

Text by Thomas Krens. Tracing one of the last century's abiding motifs, this book looks at the many interpretations by artists of the idea of the void. In , in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public.

Foreword by Tom Eccles. Interviews by Lauren Cornell, Tom Eccles. Invisible Adversaries is inspired by the eponymous feature film by the radical Austrian artist Valie Export. This volume explores the many applications of irony in art, from matters of gender to depictions of nature and self-reflexivity. Text by Thomas Crow, David Pagel. From to , a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, California. A marvelously bold interdisciplinary anthology, It Is Almost That collects works by women artists and writers who have constructed hybrid environments that merge image and text.

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Forward by Bill Arning. Text by Dean Daderko, Claire Fontaine, et al. It Is What It Is. Photographs by Christopher Wool. Onestar Press asked 20 artists and editors to invite other artists to contribute a one-page project to Je Veux. Demonstrating that the self-portrait has lost none of its relevance to contemporary art trends, this volume assesses the genre in the second half of the twentieth century.

Kindred Spirits looks at the influence of indigenous art from the American south west on modern and contemporary art.

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Visual artists frequently work with the raw material of cinema, shooting with movie stars, professional technology and special effects, and telling lavish stories in single- and multi-channel works. Modes of Multiplication Edited by Christoph Keller. Foreword by Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli. Object offers a historical overview of the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the s and 70s. Dean, Dalia Judovitz, Thomas Zaunschirm. New Mexico Introduction by Bill Gilbert. Text by Lucy Lippard, William L. Landscape Confection brings together a group of emerging and mid-career artists involved in expanding the historical practice of landscape painting.

Introduction by Hugh M. Lateral Thinking assesses the artistic achievements of the s, concentrating on work by 40 contemporary artists from North, South, and Central America, Cuba, Africa, China and Europe. Lens-Based Sculpture demonstrates the relationship between sculpture and photography from a historical perspective. Are we alone in the universe? Or are we, ourselves, the strangers in our own worlds? A presentation of Norwegian contemporary art that has captivated the international art world with its vitality and inventiveness, many of the artists are already internationally acclaimed, others are destined to be.

Preface Elke aus dem Moore, Nina Bingel. This volume examines how we display change through the theatricality of objects and bodies, both staged and in daily life. Foreword by Adrian Hearthfield. Text by Tania Bruguera, et al.

Live Forever is a collection of some of the catalytic figures of contemporary performance art. Live Through This brings together more than 30 of the most exciting art, music and fashion personalities who are changing art making in New York. The group show Lost Paradise explores what distinguishes human existence from the animal kingdom, as well as the areas where they overlap. Art is always a great declaration of love. Text by Cathrin Langanke, Barbara J. Text by Manfred Hermes, Eva Illouz. Love Is Colder than Capital brings together 16 artists who explore the interrelationships of economics and emotions in society.

The recent boom in contemporary French art is assessed in this volume through works by 12 artists born since the s: Made in Germany II accompanies the second exhibition curated by Sprengel Museum Hanover, Kestnergesellschaft and Kunstverein Hannover, and offers an overview of 44 young German and international artists currently working in Germany. This book engages the creative and critical strategies at play in works of recent Chilean art that emerge from a reflection on the politics of invisibility: In the history of American art, the contributions of African American artists to the development of abstraction have been largely overlooked.

Text by Doug Saunders, et al. The current refugee situation in Europe is the starting point for the exhibition in the German Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale Nine regional institutions in Germany join forces to exhibit works by outstanding international contemporary photographers and video artists from the Rhine-Main region in Making History , which examines the ways that media images stage reality. Contributions by William Mitchell. Text by Luc Sante. Tina Barney, David Levinthal, Laurie Simmons and the other artists in this collection approach the question of photographic truth through a simulated reality that deliberately exposes props and artifice.

Text by Guenda Bernegger, Vittorio Gallese, et al. A zine-cum-artist's book, Mirror Me was developed from a collaborative exhibition and performance organized by the writer Brandon Stosuy and the artist Kai Althoff at Dispatch, and displayed at White Columns. Looking at the work of four artists, Mo ve ment focuses on the hand that places a line on paper, that shapes the clay, that moves through space or with a brush across a canvas. Money is inextricably linked to history; in one century it seems to be a good thing, in another evil, then it becomes almost invisible. Here, artists are invited to explore the theme of national identity as it is experienced in everyday life.

The artist's name identifies the work of art--"a Picasso"--what could be simpler? And yet the relation between the two entities is fraught and inexplicable. Japanese publisher Soichiro Fukutake has transformed the island of Naoshima into an art lover's paradise. Among the most popular images in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' rich collection are self-portraits and depictions of studio life.

This publication accompanies a landmark exhibition investigating the complex nature of artistic identity. The first analysis of the relationship between art and video games, from the sixties until today. Video games have emerged as an art forum in the tweny-first century. Text by Natascha Adamowsky, et al. Nets features works of art that play with the idea of webs and networks, from spiders' webs to diagram structures. Visionary Artists from L.

Text by Ali Subotnick. Text by Diedrich Diederichsen, Bob Nickas. Illustrated chronology by Kara Carmack. Foreword by Dore Ashton. Text by David Bunn Martine. This publication marks the first time that a diverse group of Native painters, sculptors, photographers, installation and media artists, performing artists, filmmakers and writers has been defined as a movement or given a name. From its Futurist and Dadaist origins to the body art of the s and more recent developments in the genre, the history of Performance art is oriented around a fairly consistent set of elements: Nuages examines the ubiquity of the cloud as a motif and its many meanings across the arts and sciences in a gamut of cultures.

Text by Elke Falat, Frederico Geller. Artists including Mark Dion, Jochen Lempert and Helen Mirra use the Hildesheim Museum's geological collection to employ scientific methodology for their own fictional documentations as amateur scientists. This international survey of visual art proposes methods of contemporary painting that call into question the classic two-dimensionality of the form. Text by Juliana Engberg. Drawing, whether by hand or onscreen, has become a striking expressive element in contemporary art--an independent discipline beyond the classic sketch. On One Side of the Same Water looks at contemporary art practices in those regions of the Mediterranean that have been sites of conflict over the past half-century or so: In One Day Sculpture prominent critics, curators and scholars explore new considerations of public art.

Beirut had been a renowned resort and a center of culture and style for hundreds of years, when, in the late twentieth century, it became the site of terrible violence and trauma. Out of This World brings together a renowned group of international artists whose works deal with celestial marvels and anomalies, merging the earthly and the profane with the sublime. The wonderfully imaginative starting point for Over the Edges is the corners of city buildings.

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Overcoming Dictatorships explores art produced in response to the collapse of political authoritarian systems, particularly that of the Soviet bloc in Issues of process and materiality in painting expanded in dramatic ways after Abstract Expressionism. This volume documents those at its forefront from the s onwards: What kind of a reader does an artist make? In the decades following World War II, both Japan and Italy were rebuilding after the ravages of war, constructing democratic political systems after a period of fascism.

Text by Gerhard Graulich, et al. Around 50 paintings, photographs and installations are included. Preface by Beate Ermacora. Investigating the fickleness of personal memory and the influence of the unconscious upon memory, Past Desire brings together ten international artists who work with the themes of history and memory: Poetics of Dissent Edited by Nelly Richard.

Text by Diamela Eltit, Andrea Giunta. Text by Jens Hoffmann, Harrell Fletcher. People's Biennial is a celebration of the unknown, the peculiar and the disregarded. Foreword by Otto Letze, Daniel J. Text by Linda Hase, Nina S.

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At work from the late s on, and thus extending the concerns of Pop art, Photorealist artists devoted themselves to the veneer of everyday life: Interview by Ivan Mecl. In the typology of fairy tales, women are routinely reduced to caricatures of innocence or evil, either impossibly saintly and self-sacrificing or malevolent in ways that only the male sex would project. Foreword by Lisa Melandri. What will the world of tomorrow be like? What will we wear? What will we eat? What will we be fighting for? Artists have increasingly played a central role in the restructuring of cities, in the wake of de-industrialization, deregulation and privatization.

How might a resistive art be imagined, despite it being enmeshed in the economic structures that need to be countered? What other knowledge, and what other communities, can art foster? Edited by Barry Blinderman. Contributions by Tom Moody. Text by Dave Hickey. Despite the frequent mockery by Pop artists of the Abstract Expressionists' machismo and swagger, the best-known artists of the Pop era as art history has defined it were men.

Foreword by Margaret Hall Silva. Grand Arts, a contemporary art project space in Kansas City, MO, quietly but radically tested the limits of institutional and artistic support for nearly two decades. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Promises of the Past examines the former opposition between Eastern and Western Europe by reinterpreting the history of the Communist Bloc countries through art. Artists and Architecture marks the fortieth anniversary of London's Hayward gallery--itself an architectural icon, and one of the few remaining examples of the s Brutalist style.

The face of public art is changing. Vienna has hosted a number of ambitious collaborative public art projects in recent years, started by the Public Art Vienna program. Public Intimacy brings together 25 artists and collectives who disrupt expected images of a country known largely through its apartheid history. Geometric abstraction found its most dynamic, sensual and enduring expression in Latin America. Introduction by Rebecca McGrew. Foreword by Kathleen Stewart Howe.

Radical Presence chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. For the project documented in this volume, Brandon LaBelle invited people from around the world to send in radio memories--of songs overheard at special moments in their lives. Afterword by Loring McAlpin. In this first comprehensive presentation of art from the s in Argentina, Recovering Beauty places the Centro Cultural Rojas CCR at the core of this creative period.

Reinventing Abstraction looks at 15 painters born between and Requiem for the Sun: Text by Rodrigo Alonso, Cornelia Huth, et al. This publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile, from the s on. Text by Elizabeth Smith, Anne Wagner. Accompanying the most comprehensive exhibition of postwar abstract sculpture by women artists to date, Revolution in the Making traces the ways in which women artists deftly transformed the language of sculpture in the 20th Century.

This volume is published for an exhibition curated by Marc Jancou that utilizes six Parisian sites on either side of the Seine, each of which occupies some intermediate status between gallery and home. Introduction by Peter Pakesch. Rock, Paper, Scissors brings together artists whose works have kept a close relationship with pop music: Interview by Elena Biserna. Room Tone was initiated by artist Brandon LaBelle to examine the relationship between sound and architecture.

Foreword by Amy Sadao. Text by Craig L. Ruffneck Constructivists , published to accompany a group exhibition curated by artist Kara Walker, brings together 11 international artists in order to define a contemporary manifesto of urban architecture and change. Essays by Richard Hell and Martin Patrick. Foreword by Bill Conger. In this volume, contemporary visual artists investigate sadness through painting, sculpture, photography, and video.

Sad Songs features a diverse collection of works unified by their melancholic tone and characterized by isolation, nostalgia and emotional desperation. Photographs by Catherine Opie, David Wojnarowicz. Text by Wolfgang Tillmans. The cultural-historical starting point of Saint Sebastian: Text by Will Bradley, R.

Siva Kumar, Stephen Morton, et al. Contributions by Verena Gerlach. Conversation with Michael Fried, et al. In the late 70s the consistently figural and empathetic representations of everyday subjects by Katharina Fritsch born , Jeff Koons born and Charles Ray born attracted a great deal of attention. Text by Stephen Fredman. Introduction by Peter Eleey. Foreword by Klaus Biesenbach. The attacks of September 11, were among the most pictured disasters in history, yet they remain, a decade later, underrepresented in cultural discourse--particularly within the realm of contemporary art.

Kunstverein Schwerte in Germany invited the artists Christian Freudenberger and Markus Karstiess to develop a project around the idea of the cave as a place of creativity. Foreword by Chris Dercon and Hugo Bongers. Shine revels in the happy sheen, presenting wishful fantasies and visions of the future by 18 contemporary artists whose work offers different gleams of optimism. Family photographs are a universally familiar genre, and an intimate one, which makes this collection an accessible entry point for its deceptively simple but deeply complex social and representational issues.

This monumental new book explores the recent history of exhibition-making, looking at the radical shifts that have taken place in the practice of curating contemporary art over the last 20 years. Signs Taken in Wonder highlights the narrative aspects of contemporary artistic production in Istanbul, both in art and in literature.

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Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Introduction by Rudi Fuchs. Between October and September , 14 site-specific artist's projects were installed in the city of Barcelona, at the initiation of the Espai Poblenou Foundation. Excerpt by David Sedaris. Foreward by Judith Richards. The influential German art gallery Situation Kunst Art as Situation was founded in the s to present contemporary art as a sensory experience, alongside objects from Asia and Africa.

Situational Diagram is a collection of essays and creative propositions by cultural theorists, philosophers, artists and activists. Six Feet Under collects an international array of contemporary and historical artworks, some dating back to the sixteenth century, that take on the topic of death and decay.

In art, death is a universal subject. SkypeLab fosters collaboration among digital artists and curators from Melbourne, Shanghai and Reutlingen. Foreword by Judith Richards. Slightly Unbalanced surveys the prevalence of psychological neurosis as a subject in contemporary art. Foreword by Barbara Schroeder. A collaborative sound-art project by artists from Europe, North America and Japan, Social Music documents a series of broadcasts on Kunstradio in Vienna.

In Sonic Somatic , the sound artist and theorist Christof Migone looks at sound art's overlap with other disciplines through its particular uses of articulation. Articulation is explored here in all of its guises: Text by Yves Aupetitallot, Jef Cornelis. Sonsbeek , curated by Wim Beeren, introduced film, video and environmental art through works by Robert Smithson, Panamarenko and Claes Oldenburg. Sotto Voce maps the historical progression of the abstract white relief from the s to the s. A Contemporary Score investigates the ways in which some of the most innovative contemporary artists are working with sound today.

Medea Photographs by Stephan Crasneanscki. Text by Arthur Larrue. Soundwalk is an international sound collective founded in the early s by Stephan Crasneanscki and based in New York City. April 12, marks the acclaimed fiftieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's voyage into space.

The catalogue addresses the ever-decreasing boundaries between nature and artificiality. In , Rotterdam and Porto, the cultural capitals of Europe for that year, were besieged by international artists invited to design projects that explored these two cities and their spaces. The street as a stage or site of creative action has acquired its own special role in art history: Subversive Practices explores European and South American experimental and conceptual art practices established between the s and s under the influence of military dictatorships.

Ten well-established artists from across the Maghreb, Levant, and Gulf in conversations moderated by experts on contemporary Middle Eastern art. Text by Friederike Assandri, et al. In a longstanding Chinese folk custom, paper replicas of money and goods are ritually burned as offerings to win the favor of ancestors, gods and spirits. Interview with Bernard Ceysson by Rachel Stella. Text by Octavio Camargo, Jennifer Gabrys. Vrhovec Sambolec, Jana Winderen. The latest Surface Tension gathers the fruits of the Manual project, a collaborative sound-art venture undertaken by six international artists.

It includes a randomly chosen CD by one of the contributors. A collaboration between artist Sophie Warren, architect Jonathan Mosley and writer Robin Wilson, Beyond Utopia looks at the practicalities of utopian thinking in urban planning and administrative culture. Following the success of Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, Surface Tension: Continuing the work initiated in Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, this second in the Supplement series engages questions of location and performative interventionist practices through essays and creative projects.

Introduction by Lawrence Rinder. Interview by Bill Berkson. Translation by Michael Tweed. Essays by Miriam Basillio and Roxana Maroci. Artists have always struggled to represent the ephemeral phenomenon that is time, but since the beginning of the twentieth century it has become almost a fixation: Foreword by Hyun-Sook Lee. Korean Dansaekhwa painting emerged in the s as a reaction to the academicism of the National Art Exhibition and the country's rapidly changing social and political landscape.

Foreword by Claudia Gould. The Blue of Distance , published to accompany a group exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, is a reflection on the color blue's uncanny relationship to absence, desire and distance. This collection of alphabets features the work of artists, designers, musicians and curators. Introduction by George Pendle. Visualizing Japan in the s Text by John W.

Modernity took many forms in s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. The Century of the Bed addresses the use of the bed as an office and workspace. How can we define and reexamine the bed as an architectural space? This volume offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which "the cinematic" has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion.

Interview by Gerald A. The Circus as a Parallel Universe takes the circus as a metaphor for the art world--a platform for transgression against the existing world order. Foreword by Laura Steward. Introduction by Nancy M. Text by Sarah Lewis, Daniel Belasco. Text by Mara Ambro? In this luxurious volume, 60 artists from 22 African countries explore Dante's The Divine Comedy , employing a broad range of artistic media such as painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and performance.

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Screenplay by Atom Egoyan. Text by Michael Tarantino. Featuring poems, artist's projects, film stills and photographs, The Event Horizon presents the work of over 15 European artists and is based on an exhibit held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Irony is one of the defining characteristics of postmodernism, but is it a meaningful strategy today? Introduction by Dominic Molon. Text by Anthony Huberman, Kelly Shindler. Foreword by Erlend G. Serving as a repository of memory and atonement, the titular mansion itself functions as a portrait of the family's collective trauma.

The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture brings together the work of over 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. The Luminous West unites 33 artists from two generations to define the artistic landscape of Germany's Rhineland and North Rhine-Westphalia regions. As contemporary art in India becomes more widely recognized within the country, there has also been a growing awareness of its growth and impact internationally. Text by Michael Connor. Foreword by Linda Shearer. Introduction by Toby Kamps.

Essay by Frances Richard. Drawing on s cul p tural paradigms as diverse as paper-doll books, Mad magazine fold-ins and exploded schematic diagrams, the artists in The Paper Sculpture Book offer a hands-on, self-contained art show. Text by Carel Blotkamp. The People's Art invokes the Dutch tradition of intense social organization, spread across every aspect of government, interest groups and human relations. He's a young, somewhat cocky, warden who is constantly bragging about his sexual exploits.

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Max somehow thinks that he's a James Bond-type playboy. Louie will attempt to flirt at women to no avail, especially with Elaine. The Todd from Scrubs may be the ultimate Casanova Wannabe, especially after he comes to terms with his bisexuality. Whoa, these are hot. Please tell me you mean temperature-wise, because there's no way you could find broccoli sexy. I heard you lied and said we didn't do it.

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Greg, one of the colonists in Space Colony. With the voice of a late night radio personality and pick-up lines out of a Saturday Night Live sketch, Rick is an utter failure when it comes to women, even when compared to Mad Scientist Nicolai and Disco Dan Charles. He's a flagrant misogynist and is regarded with unmasked contempt by main character Venus; Even his official company profile paints him in an unflattering light.

He's also one of the least useful colonists, having high standards for happiness and few strong skills. An elf called Salvanas, who can be found in a bar, is a minor character whose only function is to hit on every female party member that talks to him except Imoen, who was added at the last moment. Salvanas flirts so blatantly shamelessly that he's inevitably angrily rejected. The only one interested is a temporary female Edwina—but after Salvanas's verbal slip she gets angry and kills the poor elf. If a female player character chooses not to reject him, Salvanas gets scared and runs away.

A wizard Edwin hits on some female party members including Mazzy the halfling! Daxter from the Jak and Daxter series flirts with every attractive female he comes across, despite the fact that he's been turned into a three-foot-tall rodent. He seems to have grown out of it by Jak X , though it might just be because he finally has a girlfriend. Carlos Olivera from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis , famous for the memorably cheesy line "All the foxy ladies love my accent. It drives 'em craaaazy!

Junpei from Persona 3 , who tries to make up for with sheer bravado what he utterly lacks in everything else when it comes to women. The ladies still aren't impressed. Morte does this as an act; he knows he'll never score for the obvious reasons and has nothing to lose, so he has fun with it. Rock from Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life is this, to the point of even wearing a leisure suit and calling the main character "babe". He fails miserably at romance though he fancies himself quite the catch which is lampshaded by his mother, who questions your mental health should you pursue him.

Oghren imagines himself as being quite the ladies' man, though most of the females he hits on find him utterly repulsive. He was married, though his first wife left him and then fell in love with another woman. He then started up a relationship with Felsi, who was quite a looker In truth, there is some hint that Oghren's lecherous behaviour is a cover for his crippling insecurities.

Ewan Devlin from Mercenaries 2: He believes that he's a smooth-talking Irish stallion, but as evidenced throughout the game, he often drives the girls away by talking their ears off, hitting them with a bust of the Big Bad , or by detonating something in the stockpile. Agarest Senki gives us Winfield and Thoma. Winfield is a textbook case of this trope.

Thoma however actually has a crapton of game and earns the ladies company. Let's start with the positive: That is, he is capable of distilling our own musings and insecurities about love and sex, and putting them in terms that allow many of us to blame our dysfunction on what seem to be universal truths.

Whether these "truths" have any bearing on reality is beside the point- we can retreat into the captivating illusion that we are all swept into drama beyond our control. On the other hand, what tedious explanations! Characters, including the Duke of Parma and Casanova himself, deliver pages-long monologues that, after awhile, border on the kind of Dickensian excess that would make Hemingway turn in his grave. Flamboyant soliloquies have their place, but I'm not sure that place is smack in the middle of an otherwise well-paced novel. Small town Italy could be a reader's playground, yet we're grounded in a room with the curtains drawn.

And despite Casanova's reputation, there's disappointingly little "play" inside that curtained room in the first place. That's not to say the journey doesn't have its charms. Written as a play, the book and its indulgences would have made for a superb one-act. Imagining the sort of Kevin Kline-esque manner that would accompany any modern, theatrical adaptation of this book is easy. Furthermore, a talented actor would be able to bring to life what is, as a page of prose, simply monolithic. Still, those who are willing to abandon cynicism for a moment will be easily won over by eloquent turns of phrase.

If that's not enough, an 18th century woman in drag and a man wearing the head of an ass may suffice. Casanova in Bolzano benefits from its niche audience. The hardcore literati will no doubt swoon over only the second English translation of a Hungarian master, and those looking for a fix through centuries old romance won't be disappointed. It's those of us caught in between who will scratch our heads and twiddle our thumbs. The novel provides enough satire to allow us to trust its tangents, but careens off course just short of each pay-off.

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The result is frustratingly uneven. Approach the book as you might an ex-lover, as something beautiful you probably don't want to take home. The year in song reflected the state of the world around us. Here are the 60 songs that spoke to us this year.