Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma

Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in contemporary international cultures since World War II. In Concerning Consequences, she considers some of the most notorious art of the second half of the twentieth century by artists who use their bodies to address destruction and violence. The essays in this book focus primarily on performance art and photography. From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, Stiles analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramovic, Pope.L, and Chris Burden. Assembling rich intellectual explorations on everything from Paleolithic paintings to the Bible’s patriarchal legacies to documentary images of nuclear explosions, Concerning Consequences explores how art can provide a distinctive means of understanding trauma and promote individual and collective healing.

Arts & Photography

Stiles, Kristine

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

Kristine Stiles has played a vital role in establishing trauma studies within the humanities. A formidable force in the art world, Stiles examines the significance of traumatic experiences both in the individual lives and works of artists and in contemporary international cultures since World War II. In Concerning Consequences, she considers some of the most notorious art of the second half of the twentieth century by artists who use their bodies to address destruction and violence. The essays in this book focus primarily on performance art and photography. From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, Stiles analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramovic, Pope.L, and Chris Burden. Assembling rich intellectual explorations on everything from Paleolithic paintings to the Bible’s patriarchal legacies to documentary images of nuclear explosions, Concerning Consequences explores how art can provide a distinctive means of understanding trauma and promote individual and collective healing.

Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979

The rise of performance art, and its merging with more traditional forms like painting and sculpture, is the great revolution of postwar art. Its links to theater, photography, music, dance, politics, and popular culture have made it especially appealing to contemporary artists in remote areas; more than any other movement in recent art, performance has found a place throughout the world. Covering three decades of significant and original art, this book features work by more than one hundred artists from the United States, South America, Eastern and Western Europe, and Japan who have had a profound impact on the relationship between visual and performance art in the postwar era. Among the artists included are Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, John Cage, Lygia Clark, Yves Klein, Marta Minujin, Bruce Nauman, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Atsuko Tanaka, and Jean Tinguely. Their work encompasses performative objects such as sculpture, artists' publications, drawings, photographs, and ephemera that come from performances, as well as documentary film and video stills. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition, organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Out of Actions illuminates the unique relationship between action, destruction, performance, and the creative process. Covering an unprecedented range of material, both nationally and temporally, the book offers the first critical comparisons of work that has previously been viewed as distinctly regional and unrelated. With essays by: * Paul Schimmel * Shinichiro Osaki * Hubert Klocker * Kristine Stiles * Guy Brett * Kellie Jones

SCHIMMEL, PAUL

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Thames&Hudson

First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists. Stiles has added forty images and a diverse roster of artists, including many who have emerged since the 1980s, such as Julie Mehretu, Carrie Mae Weems, Damien Hirst, Shirin Neshat, Cai Guo-Qian, Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Barney, and Takashi Murakami. The writings, which as before take the form of artists' statements, interviews, and essays, make vivid each artist's aesthetic approach and capture the flavor and intent of his or her work. The internationalism evident in this revised edition reflects the growing interest in the vitality of contemporary art throughout the world from the U.S. and Europe to the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia.

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles)

SELZ, Peter

University of California Press

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles)

Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist
Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that stand in for bodily fluids.
These works have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments, combined in overtly sexual ways. McCarthy's work echoes that of European artists such as Joseph Beuys or the Viennese Aktionistes, but gives 'action art' a postmodern twist.
This new revised and expanded edition includes contributions by luminaries such as Kristine Stiles, Ralph Rugoff, Massimiliano Gioni and Robert Storr.

Paul McCarthy - Revised and Expanded Edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series)

Gioni, Massimiliano

Rugoff, Ralph

Phaidon Press

Performance art and its merging with traditional painting and sculpture, is the great revolution of postwar art. Its links to theatre, photography, music, dance, politics and popular culture have made it popular with contemporary artists. This book covers more than three decades of work.

Brett, Guy

Book by Stiles, Kristine, Cameron, Dan, Strauss, David Levi

Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including Her Limits

Cameron, Dan

Strauss, David Levi.

Individual Artists

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Questions Nineteen Seventy-Seven to Nineteen Eighty-Two

Kronoscope Press

Catalog of The Galleries at Moore exhibition Following the Second World War, art as contemplative object seemed irrelevant; the focus changed to a more process- and performance-based activity. The Holocaust, the atom bomb, and the burden of guilt associated with these horrors, sparked a monumental shift in consciousness. During the next fifty years artists in the United States, Europe, and Asia embraced almost every medium and every form. 
In the early sixties artists began to use their bodies as an extended medium, creating actions and performances that shocked the public into confronting the realities of sex, power, and social politics. VALIE EXPORT was a leader in this genre. She was born Waltraud Lehner, in Linz, Austria. In 1966, she took a new name (always in capital letters) as an artistic concept and as a logo. Using her own body in combination with the century's evolving media--photography, film, video, and digital technology--she has sought to demystify the female body, to transform the representation of woman from object to subject. EXPORT's oeuvre continues to evolve in response to new technologies, shifting artistic perspectives, and a post-apocalyptic world view. 
This exhibition surveys thirty-five years of EXPORT's career. On view in both the Goldie Paley and Levy Galleries, it features work that illustrates each of the artist's significant visual investigations: objects, posters, and photographic documentation of body performances; conceptual photography; expanded cinema; experimental film and video works; and sculptural installations; as well as a selection of short and feature-length films. Translations of texts by the artist accompany individual pieces to provide further explanation and context.

VALIE EXPORT: Ob/De+Con(Struction)

Indiana, Gary

Iles, Chrissie

Fleck, Robert

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Goldie Paley Gallery

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