Bøger af Martin Patrick

In this volume, contemporary visual artists investigate sadness through painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Sad Songs features a diverse collection of works unified by their melancholic tone and characterized by isolation, nostalgia and emotional desperation. From Katy Grannan's haunting photographic portraits in which the subjects are locked in some mysterious exchange with the unseen artist, to Keith Edmier's sculptural meditations on lost adolescence, the artists here continue a long tradition of romanticizing the somber. Also included are Justine Kurland, Jack Pierson, Robert Blanchon, René Ricard, Whitney Bedford, Robert Blanchon and Benjamin Butler amongst many others.

As a widowed, loving mother, Donna is still telling her grown-up son Aaron who to go out with. In return, Aaron tells Donna that he'll do that - IF she agrees to go out with suitors he finds for her. That break of Jewish tradition shocks everyone. What follows is a disruptive romance, filled with admirers who love Aaron, and men whofall madly in love with Donna.

By dissecting the metaconditions and contexts surrounding the production of art, whether aesthetic or conceptual, social or political, Across the Art/Life Divide examines how ordinary, everyday life is transformed into art.