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Sami Art and Aesthetics

Author: Svein Aamold

Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published: 2017-12-31

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 8771845054

During the last five decades we have witnessed an increase in activity among artists identifying themselves as Sami, the only recognised indigenous people of Scandinavia. At the same time, art and duodji (traditional Sami art and craft) have been organized and institutionalized, not least by the Sami artists themselves. Sami Art and Aesthetics discusses and highlights these developments and places them in historical and contemporary contexts for an international audience. At stake are complex, changing terms regarding the creative and the political agencies. The question is not how indigeneity, identity, people, art, duodji, and aesthetics correspond to conventional Western ideas, rather it is how they interact with the Sami and their neighbouring cultures and societies. The volume is written by some of the foremost art historians and literary scholars in Sami art, craft, architecture, culture, and indigenous studies. Artists presented include Johan Turi, Ivar Jaks, Outi Pieski, Folke Fjellstrom, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Geir Tore Holm, and Silje Figenschou Thoresen.

Sámi Art and Aesthetics

Author: Svein Aamold

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788771842524

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Forside -- Titleside -- Colophon -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Unstable Categories of Art and People (Svein Aamold) -- Representations: Colonialism and the Struggle for Indigenous Self-definition -- Hybrid Iconoclasm: Three Ways of Picturing the Sámi as the Other (Rognald Heiseldal Bergesen) -- Art History in the Contact Zone: Hans Zakæus's First Communication, 1818 (Ingeborg Høvik) -- Representing the Hidden and the Perceptible: Johan Turi's Images of Sápmi (Svein Aamold) -- Traditional Sámi Culture and the Colonial Past as the Basis for Sámi Contemporary Art (Tuija Hautala-Hirvioja) -- The Sculpture of Iver Jåks and the Question of Sámi Aesthetics (Irene Snarby) -- Critical Terms: Duodji, Contexts, and Ethnographic Objects -- Decolonial or Creolized Commons? Sámi Duodji in the Expanded Field (Charlotte Bydler) -- The Power of Natural Materials and Environments in Contemporary Duodji (Gunvor Guttorm) -- Indigenous Aesthetics: Add Context to Context (Harald Gaski) -- Strange Objects: Ethnographic Objects in Between Self-Presentation and Contextualisation (Christian Spies) -- Negotiations: Contemporary, Indigenous Art and Architecture of the North -- Strategies of Monumentality in Contemporary Sámi Architecture (Elin Haugdal) -- Travelogue: Karukinka-Kangirsuk Still Images From Video (Geir Tore Holm) -- Performing the Forgotten: Body, Territory, and Authenticity in Contemporary Sámi Art (Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen) -- Blubber Poetics: Emotional Economies and Post-Postcolonial Identities in Contemporary Greenlandic Literature and Art (Kirsten Thisted) -- Contemporary Sámi Art in the Making of Sámi Art History: The Work of Geir Tore Holm, Outi Pieski and Lena Stenberg (Monica Grini) -- Afterword -- The Modern and the Modernist in Twentieth-Century Indigenous Arts (Ruth B. Phillips) -- Index of names and places -- Index of subjects

Contemporary Sami Art and Design

Author: Jan-Erik Lundström

Publisher:

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9789187543296

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This book is the first international presentation of contemporary artists and designers in the region Sápmi, an area spanning northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia. Sami traditions, both historically and from today, are inspirational sources for these contemporary artists and designers. This book presents works produced by more than 40 leading artists, both established and emerging, a reference book for anyone with an interest in expressions of contemporary art and design from the Sami region.

Immaterial

Author: Sherri Irvin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0199688214

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"Contemporary art can seem chaotic: it may be made of toilet paper, or candies you can eat, or meat that is thrown out after each exhibition. Some works fill a room with obsessively fabricated objects, while others purport to include only concepts, thoughts or language. I argue, through many examples, that disparate developments in installation art, conceptual art, time-based media art, and participatory art can be understood in terms of custom rules. Many artists articulate custom rules governing artwork display, preservation of material elements, and interactivity or audience participation. Rules are established through the artist's sanction: the creative act of designating the material elements and rules that constitute the work's structure. Rules serve as medium: they are part of the work's structure and help to constitute its meanings. Rules are meaningful in themselves, and they help to activate the expressive potential of material objects. Museum practice should include providing information about the rules; otherwise, audiences can't fully appreciate the work. Contemporary art conservation involves preserving information: loss of information about the rules, like loss of a chunk of marble, can seriously damage the work. Rules are trickier to pin down than material objects and are subject to violation, so we'll examine the effects on the work's integrity and authenticity when things go wrong in various ways. Is the emergence of custom rules a positive development? Some artists have used rules to powerful effect. But rules aren't always used well: bad art can take any form"--

The Aesthetics of Matter

Author: Sarah Posman

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 3110317532

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It has often been argued that the arrival of the early-20th-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. This third volume of the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies sheds light on the full range and import of this aspect in avant-garde and modernist aesthetics across all art forms and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The book’s contributions, written by experts from some 20 countries, seek to answer the following questions: What sort of objects and material, works and media help us to properly grasp the avant-garde and modernist “aesthetics of matter”? How were affects, emotions and sensory and bodily experiences transferred and transformed in the experiment with matter? How were “immaterial” things such as concepts of time changed in this aesthetic moment? What “material meanings” were disseminated in the cultural transfer and translation of objects? How did subsequent avant-gardes deal with the “aesthetics of matter” in their response to historical predecessors?

Decentring the Avant-Garde

Author: Per Bäckström

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2014-01-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9401210373

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Decentring the Avant-Garde presents a collection of articles dealing with the topography of the avant-garde. The focus is on different responses to avant-garde aesthetics in regions traditionally depicted as cultural, geographical and linguistic peripheries. Avant-garde activities in the periphery have to date mostly been described in terms of a passive reception of new artistic trends and currents originating in cultural centres such as Paris or Berlin. Contesting this traditional view, Decentring the Avant-Garde highlights the importance of analysing the avant-garde in the periphery in terms of an active appropriation of avant-garde aesthetics within different cultural, ideological and historical settings. A broad collection of case studies discusses the activities of movements and artists in various regions in Europe and beyond. The result is a new topographical model of the international avant-garde and its cultural practices.

The Lonely City

Author: Olivia Laing

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-03

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1250039576

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There is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. This roving cultural history of urban loneliness centers on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. How do we connect with other people, particularly if our sexuality or physical body is considered deviant or damaged? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens? Laing travels deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most original artists in a celebration of the state of loneliness.

Mázejoavku

Author: Susanne Hætta

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9788290625974

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The book documents the history of the legendary Sámi artist collective Mázejoavku (1978-1983), and deals with the importance of the group historically and also in relation to other Sámi artists and Indigenous collectives and practitioners globally today. The Sámi Artist Group was the first generation of young Sámi artists to regain pride in their Sámi heritage, to express their Sáminess freely, and to reclaim a renewed space within Sápmi by advocating and negotiating Sámi thinking and being through the arts. The book is based on individual interviews and extensive research by author Susanne Hætta. In addition it includes a rich selection of archival photographic material, as well as texts by Yorta Yorta curator and writer Kimberley Moulton, Spanish/British art historian Katya García-Antón and Sámi scholar and duojár Liisa-Rávná Finbog. The publication is edited by Katya García-Antón, and is co-published by Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and the Sámi publishing house DAT. ___________________ Boken handler om det samiske kunstnerkollektivet Mázejoavku/Masigruppen (1978-1983) og deres betydning betydning historisk i relasjon til andre samiske kunstnere, samt urfolkskollektiver og utøvende kunstnere globalt. Mázejoavku var første generasjon samiske kunstnere som med stolthet åpent stod frem med sin bakgrunn, hevdet sin rett til å være samer, og re-definerte og høynet statusen for samisk kunst. Boken er tuftet på personlige intervjuer og omfattende forskning av forfatteren Susanne Hætta. I tillegg har den et rikt billedmateriale og tekstbidrag fra Yorta Yorta-kurator og skribent Kimberley Moulton, forsker og duojár Liisa-Rávná Finbog, samt den spansk-britiske kunsthistorikeren Katya García-Antón, som også har vært bokens redaktør. Boken publiseres i samarbeid mellom Office for Contemporary Art Norway, OCA, og det samiske forlaget DAT.

Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art

Author: Cristina Albu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1315437112

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This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally drawn between visuality and agency, sensing and thinking, phenomenal art and politics, phenomenology and structuralism, and subjective involvement and social belonging. Instead, they foreground the many ways that artists ask us to consider how we sense, think, and act in relation to a work of art.

Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy

Author: Alfonsina Scarinzi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-24

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9401793794

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The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic “Cartesian” paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a version of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but also from James and Peirce)—one primed from the start to see human beings not only as embodied, but as inseparable from the environment they interact with—and provides a forum for authors from diverse disciplines to address specific scientific and philosophical issues within the anti-dualistic framework considering aesthetic experience as a process of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from leading researchers including Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino. The volume covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive science, literary studies, psychology of aesthetics, art and design, sociology.