JEAN FRANÇOIS CHEVRIER

Este ensayo analiza las transformaciones que la obra de arte sufrió a mediados de los años sesenta.

Este volumen está dedicado al trabajo de uno de los críticos más brillantes y polémicos de fotografía de los años ochenta, Jean-François Chevrier. Se trata de una selección de sus ensayos más emblemáticos, fruto de su labor crítica en publicaciones especializadas o como comisario de exposiciones en los años ochenta y noventa. Su trabajo teórico en ambos frentes ha influido de manera casi directa en el discurso sobre la museificación de la fotografía; así como en su articulación discursiva dentro de la cultura artística contemporánea. Con su concepto del tableau fotográfico, es decir, la realización de obras fotográficas tomando como modelo el cuadro pictórico o la rearticulación del sistema artístico para incorporar las nuevas tecnologías de las últimas décadas, el trabajo de Chevrier es fundamental para comprender cómo se articula la fotografía en el sistema y en la historiografía artística contemporánea.

Based on broodthaers's interpretation, this book examines mallarmé's influence on such seminal figures of modernity as Artaud and Apollinaire, reintrepreting many 20th-century art movements(from cubism to historical avant-garde movements to the art of the seventies), and questions the very idea of modernity. The catalog's contens are highly varies: in addition to an essay by Jean-François Chevrierm the publication includes abundant documentary material, poetry and other literary texts, as well as reproductions of the works from the exhibition.

This new volume documents the first major career retrospective of artist Öyvind Fahlström--born in Sao Paulo in 1928, died in Stockholm in 1976--in which his stunning versatility as an artist is brilliantly illustrated. An exhaustive amount of research went into producing this retrospective--and in effect, access to the artist's archives has given rise to a new interpretation of his oeuvre. It has also shed light on an important facet of Fahlström's artistry: his work as a poet. " Öyvind Fahlström" is structured in terms of three overarching topic: the artist as poet--the intricate nodal links between the artist's visual and poetic language; art and information--Fahlström's role as an observer, and as an explorer of ethical issues; and finally translation--the issues of language, hybridity, and geography raised by the arc of the artist's life, his relocation from Brazil to Sweden and then to the rest of Europe and New York. Featuring numerous previously untranslated and heretofore unpublished texts, " Öyvind Fahlström" is a testament to this artist's uniquely brilliant career.