[PDF] Concerning Stephen Willats And The Social Function Of Art eBook

Author : Sharon Irish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 1350197610

GET BOOK

This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher : Batsford
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN :

GET BOOK

"As well as providing a theoretical framework, Art and Social Function documents two large-scale projects - one in west London and the other in Edinburgh - and introduces Meta Filter, an interactive machine designed to develop the relationships between individuals, and between individuals and groups through the examination of differing perceptions of social coding structures. The artist provides a new introduction explaining the context in which this important work was developed."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN :

GET BOOK

Douments two of Willat's large scale projects, one in West London, the other in Edinburgh.

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN :

GET BOOK

* A unique approach to architecture, modern buildings analysed by occupants * Demonstrates an art practice intervening actively in people's lives * Fascinating insight into Willats' 30-year career * Documents projects from cities including Berlin, London, New York

Author : Grant H. Kester
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520275942

GET BOOK

Grant Kester discusses the disparate network of artists & collectives united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that crosses boundaries of race, religion, & culture.

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher : Moderne Kunst Verlag Fur
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9783869841243

GET BOOK

This publication is the ?rst retrospective and comprehensive compilation of works and writings by British artist Stephen Willats. The ?rst section contains numerous illustrations of works by Willats, including a number not previously published, and text contributions from authors who have been closely involved with the artist for many years. The second section collects important writings by Stephen Willats from his archive, which have been transcribed for the ?rst time and now presented in combination with black-and-white illustrations. This section opens up new and until now unpublished insights into the text works of the artist. Published to accompany the exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 23 September – 21 November 2010. English and German text.

Author : Heike Munder
Publisher : Scheidegger and Spiess
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 9783858816481

GET BOOK

"The work of the British conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b. London, 1943) interrogates structures of community life and social interaction. Exploring the modular architecture of social housing projects, he spotlights forms of individual creative adaptation that defy the uniformity and functionality of the spaces. Such dissent with normative parameters is especially Interesting to Willats because it is where individuality reveals itself and self-determination is articulated. He finds similar modes of nonconformist expression in London's experimental underground club scene and in places on the urban periphery where teenagers seek escape from institutional or conformist pressures. His understanding of what art is and does is reflected in a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice that takes inspiration from sciences beyond the realm of art. Since the 1960s, his work has been influenced by cybernetics, the study of reciprocal relations in dynamic systems, which helps him think through autonomous forms of organization and their structures of control and communication. Providing him with both a method and an aesthetic vocabulary, it is fundamental to his redefinition of the social function and agency of art. Exhibition: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland (25.05.2019 - 18.08.2019)."--

Author : Jo Applin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271081368

GET BOOK

The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art. The contributors to London Art Worlds examine the many activities and movements that existed alongside more established institutions in this period, from the rise of cybernetics and the founding of alternative publications to the public protests and new pedagogical models in London’s art schools. The essays explore how international artists and the rise of alternative venues, publications, and exhibitions, along with a growing mobilization of artists around political and cultural issues ranging from feminism to democracy, pushed the boundaries of the London art scene beyond the West End’s familiar galleries and posed a radical challenge to established modes of making and understanding art. Engaging, wide-ranging, and original, London Art Worlds provides a necessary perspective on the visual culture of the London art scene in the 1960s and ’70s. Art historians and scholars of the era will find these essays especially valuable and thought provoking. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Elena Crippa, Antony Hudek, Dominic Johnson, Carmen Juliá, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy Reynolds, Joy Sleeman, Isobel Whitelegg, and Andrew Wilson.