Bøger af Anne Ring Petersen

Byerne er menneskehedens første totalkunstværker, fra ende til anden kunstige frembringelser skabt ved en kollektiv indsats. Storbyens billeder - Fra industrialisme til informationsalder handler om udviklingen i billedkunstnernes fortolkning af storbyernes kultur og rum fra ca. 1850 til 1990erne. Det sanselige samspil mellem kunstnerne og metropoler som Paris, London, Berlin og New York i det 19. og det tidlige 20. århundrede er allerede ganske grundigt belyst, mens samtidskunstens mellemværende med storbyen hidtil har været et blankt kapitel i kunsthistorien. Af samme grund lægger bogen hovedvægten på perioden efter 1960.

Despite its large and growing popularity — to say nothing of its near-ubiquity in the world’s art scenes and international exhibitions of contemporary art — installation art remains a form whose artistic vocabulary and conceptual basis have rarely been subjected to thorough critical examination.In Installation Art: Between Image and Stage, Anne Ring Petersen aims to change that. She begins by exploring how installation art developed into an interdisciplinary genre in the 1960s, and how its intertwining of the visual and the performative has acted as a catalyst for the generation of new artistic phenomena. She investigates how it became one of today's most widely used art forms, increasingly expanding into consumer, popular and urban cultures, where installation's often spectacular appearance ensures that it meets contemporary demands for sense-provoking and immersive cultural experiences.The main trajectory of the book is directed by a movement aimed at addressing a series of basic questions that get at the heart of what installation art is and how it is defined: How does installation structure time, space and representation? How does it address and engage its viewers? And how does it draw in the surrounding world to become part of the work? Featuring the work of such well-known artists as Bruce Nauman, Pipilotti Rist, Ilya Kabakov and many others, this book breaks crucial new ground in understanding the conceptual underpinnings of this multifacious art form.Anne Ring Petersen is associate professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and the editor of Contemporary Painting in Context.

Stig Brøgger’s artistic endeavours from the 1960s to the present day encompass virtually all artistic media – from photography to painting, installation art, film, artists’ books, sculptures and public art projects.For more than six decades, Stig Brøgger (b. 1941) has been an important figure on the Danish art scene. At a very early stage of his career, he took part in experimental exhibitions showcasing young Danish art, contributing to the develop-ment of new trends such as Land art and Conceptual art on the international scene. Brøgger’s works can be seen as artistic reflections on new departures within culture, art history, media technology, philosophy and science. In his artistic practice, as well as in his capacity as a writer, editor, exhibition organiser and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Brøgger has always sought to expand the scope of what an artist can do, thereby paving the way for and inspiring subsequent generations of Danish artists.Featuring lavishly illustrated articles by Mikkel Bogh, Anne Ring Petersen, Tania Ørum, Charlotte Præstegaard, Jean-François Lyotard and the artist himself, Stig Brøgger – Now Here offers the first full survey of Brøgger’s extensive body of work.