The second issue in the series Room 5, Arcade features reflections on female urinals and edible architecture; a consideration of scatalogical elements in the work of Kurt Schwitters; an analysis of hypothermia as a primary death fantasy; interviews with Richard Rorty and Dan Graham; an exploration of Fragonard's gravity fantasies; essays and designs for museum architecture; and thoughts on Walter Benjamin, perspective, and the act of writing. Arcade is a collection of essays, discussions, architectural design and graphic projects that convene, as in an arcade, in their mutual attempt to escape the conditions in the street. Drawing together work that reflects the commitment of the London Consortium to multidisciplinary research, Room 5 recognizes the need to analyze modern culture in its social context, with input and output from the human sciences, cultural policy and cultural production.

Room 5: Arcade

Arts & Photography

Morris, Mark

Penner, Barbara

James, Catherine

Battista, Kathy

Clough, Robert

Gebbia, Pierandrea

Gooding, Francis

Holm, Lorens

Newton, Toby

Segal Weizman & Herz Architects

Tercier, John

Trifiro, Fabrizio

History & Criticism

The London Consortium

This is a guide to contemporary spaces in New York. It covers significant and entertaining galleries.

Art New York: A Guide to Contemporary Art Spaces

Tichar, Sian

Ellipsis London Pr Ltd

New York is a centre of creative production for an exciting, emerging generation of women artists. Their work investigates themes such as the body as medium and subject matter; the deconstruction of the existing patriarchal order of the art world; the appropriation of earlier art historical references; and the use of so-called abject and everyday materials. 
New York New Wave investigates the relevance of earlier feminist practice for this 'new' generation, asking: Does gender difference still play a role in today's practice? How can younger women artists embrace a radical political ideology and yet remain market friendly? How far have these artists diverged from the established feminist "tradition"? Artists discussed include: Firelei Baez, EV Day, Ruby LaToya Fraser, Diana Al-Hadid, K8 Hardy, Valerie Hegarty, Cindy Hinant, Dawn Kasper, Anya Kielar, Liz Magic Laser, Narcissister, Alix Pearlstein, Aurel Schmidt, AL Steiner and W.A.G.E.

New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)

I.B.Tauris

New York New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Art in Emerging Practice (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art)

Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London

What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become prominent themes in contemporary feminist practice but where did these preoccupations begin and how did they come to signify a particular type of art? Kathy Battista's (re-)engagement with the founding generation of female practitioners centres on 1970s London as the cultural hub from which a new art practice arose. Emphasising the importance of artists including Bobby Baker, Anne Bean, Catherine Elwes, Rose English, Alexis Hunter, Tina Keane, Hannah O'Shea, Kate Walker and Silvia Ziranek and examining works such as Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document, Judy Clark's 1973 exhibition Issues, Carolee Schneemann's Meat Joy and Cosey Fanni Tutti's Prostitution, shown in 1976, Kathy Battista investigates some of the most controversial and provocative art from the era. This book not only deals with the 'famous' art events but includes analysis of lesser-known exhibitions and performances and explains why so much feminist art has been both marginalised in art history and grossly under-represented in institutional archives and collections. Through considering British feminist art practice in relation to the other significant artistic movements of the 1970s - conceptual, performance and installation art - Kathy Battista positions feminist art as a disparate and complex entity, one that overlaps several art historical groupings and one which has evolved since its initial activities. As connections between 1970s artists and contemporary female practitioners are not usually consciously acknowledged, one of the central aims of this book is to reconnect current art practice with earlier, groundbreaking works. Primarily concerned with the feminist body as a site for making and exhibiting works, this book examines themes that look at the body as material, the body and performance, as well as the alternative creative platforms in 1970s feminist art. Drawing on original material - never-before-seen images from artists' personal collections and commissioned interviews with prominent artists from the period - the book is an invaluable resource for artists, researchers, curators and students interested in recovering this period from the margins of art history.

The Netherlands: a Guide to Recent Architecture

Travel

Migsch, Florian

Europe

Ellipsis London

Architecture has always been embraced by the Dutch on a social as well as cultural basis, while enthusiasm for the new and a commitment to stable long-term funding for housing has given The Netherlands perhaps the most exciting collection of contemporary building in Europe. This guide is not a comprehensive account of contemporary Dutch architecture, rather, the book is a personal selection of projects that exemplify the spirit of Dutch architecture today -- ranging from toy containers to large-scale housing and urban developments.

The Netherlands: A Guide to Recent Architecture

Moberly, Jonathan

Architecture

Konemann

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