Die andere Seite / The Other Side
176 pages, 23.2 x 29 cm , 856 g.
Die andere Seite / The Other Side
Spiegel und Spiegelungen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Was €36.00 €6.95
Including VAT, plus Shipping
Transit time: 2 to 6 business days (worldwide)
In the exhibition "The Other Side - Mirrors and Reflections in Contemporary Art" the Belvedere takes a look at the various aesthetic and symbolic aspects of this reflecting surface. Mirrors have been imbued with meaning in art and culture from classical antiquity to the present day. Classical civilizations believed the mirror showed an image of the soul, in the art of medieval Europe it was thought to reflect chastity, transience, and sensual pleasures as well as obsession with cleanliness, and in the Baroque era it was a symbol in vanitas imagery. It is considered a medium of self-perception, an instrument for narcissistic self-doubling, and a cult object with magical properties that can conjure up supernatural powers. Its metaphorical meanings are varied and contradictory.

The mirror’s popularity in contemporary art has many origins. In an increasingly secular time, it introduces touches of transcendence and of magic. It also emphasizes the narcissistic self-aggrandizing, now so central in a society enveloped by a media world of talent shows, beauty contests and panel discussions. In the twentieth century the mirror was emancipated from being a subject in depictions to become a material and object of art itself. It is both a vehicle and focal point for philosophical and psychological investigation. Mirror iconography has also gained new facets through the media of photo, video, and film.

The exhibition and the catalogue "The Other Side - Mirrors and Reflections in Contemporary Art" showed sculpture, installations, photography, video and film by artists including John Armleder, Pierre Bismuth, Jean Cocteau, Elmgreen & Dragset, Douglas Gordon, Joan Jonas, Birgit Jürgenssen, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Bruno Peinado, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerold Tagwerker, Franz West, Erwin Wurm and Heimo Zobernig.
EditorAgnes Husslein-Arco, Edelbert Köb, Thomas Mießgang
PublisherBelvedere
Year
CoverSoftcover
LanguageGerman, English
 More
ISBN978-3-902805-48-5
Type of bookExhib'publication
Museum / PlaceBelvedere Wien
Article IDart-18180

 

Other books with these keywords:

(French edition)
€59.00 €15.00  
What Artists See When They Look At Art
€89.95 €39.95  
1992-2022
€125.00  
*HURT*HURT*HURT*HURT*HURT*HURT*HURT*
Art and Mourning in America
€69.95 €32.00  
Kunst und Erinnerung in Israel und Deutschland | Art and Memory in Israel an Germany
€29.90  
Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art
€40.00 €10.00  
€49.95  
Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart
€58.00 €15.00  
The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen
€60.00