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I Separat har Dana Sederowsky skapat en karaktär som aktivt väljer bort samhället. En karaktär som vägrar behöva någon annan än sig själv. I en blandning av korta, lösryckta meningar, listor, protokoll, långa stycken och tomma sidutrymmen beskrivs här ett liv i total social isolering. Andra människor betraktas på…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Konst Konstformer Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria Textil konst
BORO: Nödens konst handlar om idérikedom sprungen ur brist. Om spår av historia och minnen i lappade och lagade tyger. Den beskriver en japansk textilkultur där minsta tygbit togs till vara på och där kreationer av sparsamhet gick i arv, generation efter generation. Boken innehåller en fotodokumentation av nyckelverk…
Kategorier: Hantverk och handarbete Konst Konstformer Livsstil, hobby och fritid Sömnad och handarbete Textil konst
Boro: The Art of Necessity tells the story of artistry born from hardship. It traces history and memories through patched and mended fabrics – a Japanese textile culture where no scrap of material is wasted, and where economical creations were passed down between the generations. The book contains photo…
Material can be symbolic and coded. Our experience of a medium’s temporality becomes apparent only through our knowledge of its material behaviour. As the world becomes ever more digital and physically removed, we rely on a lot of materials (technical equipment, tools and infrastructures) to facilitate the remote…
Kategorier: Konst
Tuija Lindström
A Dream If Ever There Was One
A unique book with the pioneering works of Tuija Lindström
Tuija Lindström is one of Swedens foremost photographic artists. This is the first book in a series covering her work from 1980 until today. Many of the images in the book were shot during the 1980s while she was…
One to One is the first book on the work of Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter. Encompassing twenty selected design projects that range from buildings and interiors to furniture and objects, this monograph is interlaced with a series of essays that give an insight into Martin-Löf’s working process and provide context…
It´s probably a combination of the material and the special way in which colors are rendered that gives Polaroid images their often jewel-like aura. It´s a quality that is there almost independently of what the image depicts, although the motif can further boost this effect in quite a palpable way. This is very much…
In It’s Just Sex the Swedish photographer Claudia Kent explores issues surrounding gender, sexuality, and intimacy. This book is the result of a photographic documentary project conducted between 2013 and 2018 in Germany, Sweden, Australia, and the USA. The featured portraits were taken in the homes of…
This publication comprises three volumes in a slipcase dealing with two separate projects: Satellite and Circular Wait. New for this project as a whole is the third book Second Nature. In Martina Hoogland Ivanow s most recent work, the series Circular Wait (2010 2014), she has focused on examining our oftentimes…
Kategorier: Konst
Metamorphoses, illusory effects, theatricality, and artificiality. Overloaded ornamentality, bombast, sentimentality, breaches of style, and contrasts. Spiritual and Dionysian ecstasy, dreams, and visions. The world is a stage and life is a dream. A fascination with death, or beauty in death. All this and much more can…
Kategorier: Konst
In times when cameras are ubiquitous and the general public is experimenting with the narrative possibilities of photography more than ever before, a survey of the current status and potential of the photobook is highly relevant. Not only does the photobook constitute an alternative means of display to gallery…
Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Konst Konst: allmänt Minnesteknik och tanketräning Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd
What does it mean to remember through art? The anthology Public Memory, Public Art Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today presents 25 texts that explore and discuss memorial art in our common spaces. The anthology includes texts on monuments, memorials, memory, democracy, power, and oppression and have a…
Scenografi är ingen suverän konstart. Dess betydelse och gestaltningsförmåga uppstår i mötet med skådespelarna på scenen och dessförinnan i samarbetet med regissörer och övriga konstnärer. Däri ligger dess komplexitet som visuellt uttrycksmedel och dess utmaningar. I denna bok belyser en av Sveriges mest framgångsrika…
Kategorier: Konst
109 perspectives collected and visualized by Sandra Praun and Aleksandra Stratimirovic. What is light? To find an answer to this simple but complex issue, prominent and inspiring creatives were invited to share their thoughts on the phenomenon. The result was a collection of 109 entries: poetic and personal thoughts,…
Light, perception, and how we choose to interpret the outside world is a recurring theme in Katarina Löfström’s videos, three-dimensional works, and installations, and many examples feature in this extensive monograph. In her body of work, she examines visual art s inherent ability to break loose from traditional…
Kategorier: Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, museivetenskap Museivetenskap och kulturarvsvård Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap
Curating Context describes a field where the curatorial practice is extended beyond curating exhibitions into working with entire contexts. It articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surrounding context, or which need a specific structure in order to play out. In…
What Happens When Nothing Happens is the third book in which Eriksson uses walking as his starting point. The Walk originated with Eriksson walking the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail east of Kyoto, Japan, in 2016. In Circling the Mountain from 2019, Eriksson followed the trail of a wandering monk around Mount Hiei, also…
Kategorier: Konst Konst: allmänt Krig och försvar Krig och försvar: övrigt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Drone Vision addresses questions of how visibility and verticality are intrinsic to drone technology and its meanings for artistic and political praxis. This book is based on the two-year research project Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest – a collaborative initiative between HDK-Valand, University of…
Kategorier: Konst Konst: teman och motiv Särskilda konstnärer Utställningskataloger och konstsamlingar
Geschwind developed a unique technology for creating reality animations . Using sound and light to create animations of real things in the physical space. The result is for example dancing brooms or popcorn appearing to pop. Just like in the classic artistic trompe l oeuil technique, the works are experienced as true,…
Kategorier: Konst
In the heyday of modernism, the Swedish artist Greta Knutson (1899-1983) was, along with her husband Tristan Tzara, a respected member of the avant-garde in Paris. Although her exhibitions were favourably reviewed by her contemporaries, Knutson’s body of work has never been given the attention it deserves. With…
Kategorier: Konst
Today we are all photographers. Self-portraits are everywhere and snapshots of our lives are circulated and shared frenetically on various social media networks. Distinctions are blurred, not only between the private and public spheres but also between professional and amateur photographic practices. This calls for…
Kategorier: Konst
Ingemar Lööf föddes i ett enkelt arbetarhem i Kristinehamn 1929. Fadern som var murare hade gärna sett att Ingemar fortsatt i samma spår som han själv, men Ingemar hade andra planer. Att i 1940-talets Sverige, långt bort från akademier och lärosäten bestämma sig som 19-åring att bli konstnär måste ha varit ett stort…
Kategorier: Konst
MADE IN MIND Myths and Realities of the Contemporary Artist Editor MARTA GNYP Genius, bohemian, social rebel, moral provocateur, charismatic visionary… The artist has always been surrounded by enchanting myths. Today, in a globalized world, images and information are easily visible and accessible, which in part…
Lotta Antonsson’s work recalls her fascination with the late 1960s and 70s, in a style where documentary and fiction blur in a merging of social and sexual revolutions. From a process that utilizes techniques of collage and montage there emerges a personal way of looking at the ephemeral nature of things, whether…
The Shift takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the world of contemporary art. While analyzing the motives and behavior of internationally operating collectors, it explains the current popularity of contemporary art and discloses the unwritten rules, active networks, and persistent myths of the rapidly…
Kategorier: Arkiv, bevarande och digitalisering Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, museivetenskap Fotografi Konst Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap
The normative order and authoritarian use of conventional archives has long been criticized. This book explores the current digitally informed transformation and multiplication of archives with their increase in both accessibility and the amount of data produced, stored, and circulated. Despite improved search…
Cecilia Edefalk är främst känd för sitt måleri, men hennes konstnärskap kännetecknas också av fotografens blick. När hon går in på djupet och utforskar gränserna för mediet som sådant, blir den analoga fotografiska processen en undersökning av människans dubbla natur och hur jaget förhåller sig till världen. Fotografi…
#selfies documents Harry Woodrows ongoing project of taking selfies whilst wearing a specially constructed reflective helmet. The artist becomes a mirror, so in each selfie the viewer sees the mirrored box, the iPhone taking the photograph, and the photograph being taken within its screen. The book is illustrated with…
Kategorier: Konst
Contemporary Swedish Photography provides an overview of Sweden s photography scene, from the legendary Christer Strömholm to the wide range of photographers practicing today. The book covers the work of over 50 photographers, presented in alphabetical order, and with an introductory text for each as well as sumptuous…
En stigande temperatur håller på att förändra miljön i polarområdena. Permafrosten tinar, ekosystem förändras och glaciärer smälter bort framför våra ögon. De första försöken att skildra polarlandskapet med hjälp av kameran skedde för mer än 150 år sedan. I FRUSNA ÖGONBLICK Svensk polarfotografi 1861 1980 visas många…
Kategorier: Konst
Kategorier: Konst
Winter Event antifreeze, Winter Event antifreeze, Winter Event antifreeze, Winter Event antifreeze är den avslutande delen i konstnär Katja Aglert’s projektet Winter Event antifreeze. Boken består av en sekvens fotografiska utsagor främst fotograferade av Aglert, ett bildnarrativ som är ett behind the scenes…
Kategorier: Konst
The Leyline Project is a collaboration between the artists Ulrika Sparre (SE) and Steingrimur Eyfjord (IS). Both artists’ practices are in different ways based on notions of the immaterial, the spiritual, and the mythological. The Leyline Project examines the ancient phenomenon of ley lines and the research…
Louise Enhörning’s latest body of work is a meditation on love of different kinds. The title ”Agape” references the Greek term for a form of non-romantic love, affection, charity. The series of photographs with their luminous colours and unearthly atmosphere deal simultaneously with depth and surface,…