Dutch avant-garde artist Jacqueline de Jong (b. 1939) is best known for her involvement in the Situationist International and for her lively, monumental paintings. Her varied, six-decade-long career has encompassed drawing, graphic design, sculpture, jewelry, printmaking, and books, as well as the magazine The Situationist Times, which she edited from 1962-1967. This volume features large-scale reproductions of her works, much of it newly photographed, allowing the reader to appreciate de Jong's keen attention to color and the values of opacity and transparency of paint. An international team of writers and curators offer a panoply of perspectives on the artist's remarkable work and long career.

Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss

Arts & Photography

Ténèze, Annabelle

Gingeras, Alison

Cramerotti, Alfredo

Snauwaert, Dirk

Weijers, Niña

Bayar, Devrim

Desorgues, Juliette

Karskens, Xander

Stuffer, Ute

History & Criticism

Mercatorfonds

Encouraged by the successes of their co-curated exhibitions Inexpressible (2009), After Hours/ Individual Stories (2010), and You First (2011), artists Dalibor Polívka and Rob Mintz (co-founders of UFORA, the Universal Festival of Relational Art) decided to create an art book depicting how “relational aesthetics” had rocked their world. In this handsomely designed volume, their essays compliment seminal texts by the influential French curator Nicolas Bourriaud (who coined the term “relational aesthetics”) and Mostyn gallery director Alfredo Cramerotti. Nicolas Bourriaud’s essay “Instable Connections” sets the record straight on the history of the term. Alfredo Cramerotti’s piece, “Three Ways of Curating,” presents new approaches to creative survival in an ever-shifting, curatorial culture. Delving into “exhibition as medium” and “institutional critique,” The Unreality of UFORA presents the work of a cadre of contemporary artists participating in an experimental exhibition. Full of incisive quotations from a variety of experts about the impact of “relational aesthetics,” its controversial acceptance, and its place in art history, The Unreality of UFORA should be on the radar of artists, collectors, curators, and art students seeking a high-octane jolt of insight into the relational turn.

The Unreality of UFORA / Nerealnost' UFORY: Notes on Contemporary Art

BOURRIAUD, NICOLAS

Mintz, Rob

Polivka, Dalibor

Other Media

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Addressing a growing area of focus in contemporary art, Aesthetic Journalism investigates why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries, and reportage. Art theorist and critic Alfredo Cramerotti traces the shift in the production of truth from the domain of the news media to that of art and aestheticism—a change that questions the very foundations of journalism and the nature of art. This volume challenges the way we understand art and journalism in contemporary culture and suggests future developments of this new relationship.

Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing

Intellect Ltd

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