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Chris Johanson by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
A comprehensive look at the thought-provoking, eye-catching and mind-expanding work of this visionary West Coast artist.
Clare Rojas - Plain Black by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art
This volume--the first on the artist in many years--surveys the recent abstractions of the much-admired San Francisco painter Clare Rojas (born 1976). Known for her association with a generation of artists that became internationally prominent through the exhibition Beautiful Losers, Rojas in her earlie ...Show more
Ice Cream by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art
"Ice Cream" is a global survey of recent developments in contemporary art with an emphasis on emerging artists. Each of the ten selected curators is known for his or her integrity and expertise in staging presentations of new art on an international level. Each curator selects 10 important new artists w ...Show more
In the Meantime Speculations on Art, Curating, and Exhibitions by Jens Hoffmann
Category: History & Theory of Art | Series: Sternberg Press Ser.
Writings by exhibition maker and writer Jens Hoffmann, charting a highly unique curatorial trajectory.This volume brings together a wide selection of writings by exhibition maker and writer Jens Hoffmann that outline his deep understanding of the interconnections among art, curating, theater, film, and ...Show more
Jens Hoffmann: (Curating) from Z to A by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art | Series: Hapax Series
The sequel to the 2014 bestseller (Curating) From A to Z, this book extends the investigation of curatorial practice that the writer, exhibition maker and educator Jens Hoffmann (born 1974) began in the first volume. (Curating) From Z to A offers a summary of the development of curatorial practice over ...Show more
Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art by Forensic Psychologist and Researcher Jens Hoffmann (University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Category: Art
This monumental new book explores the recent history of exhibition-making, looking at the radical shifts that have taken place in the practice of curating contemporary art over the last 20 years. Tracing a history of curating through its most innovative shows, renowned curator Jens Hoffmann selects the ...Show more
Show Time - The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art
Show Time is the first book to explore the radical shifts that have taken place in the practice of curating contemporary art over the last twenty years. Tracing a history of the field through its most innovative shows, renowned curator Jens Hoffmann selects the fifty exhibitions that have most significa ...Show more
Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art and Design
Available for the first time in paperback, this is a revised and updated edition of Jens Hoffmann's survey of groundbreaking exhibitions since 1989 and explores the radical shifts that have taken place in the practice of curating contemporary art over the last 25 years. Nine thematic sections focus on a ...Show more
Sonic Rebellion: Music As Resistance by Jens Hoffmann (Editor); Elysia Borowy-Reeder (Foreword by); Marsha Music (Text by); Joel Peterson (Text by); Robin K. Williams (Text by)
Category: Film & Tv
Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance is inspired by the vital history of music in Detroit and the legacy of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. It connects Detroit's musical and political histories with a wide range of artworks, music ephemera and artifacts to offer a listening space for the rebellion's reverbe ...Show more
Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art
It has become almost obligatory to introduce a book on curating by noting the plethora of recent publications on the subject. How, in just a few short years, did we reach this point of saturation? What questions, exactly, do all these books address? Many attempt to offer an overview of the curatorial fi ...Show more
The Arcades Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Jewish Museum New York Copublication Ser.
The Arcades Project (1927-40), the monumental unfinished work of cultural criticism by Walter Benjamin, is the German philosopher's effort to comprehend urban modernity through the 19th-century Parisian shopping arcade. The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin combines artworks with archival ma ...Show more
The Exhibitionist - Journal on Exhibition Making - The First Six Years by Jens Hoffmann (ed.)
Category: Art
A journal by curators for curators, The Exhibitionist has asked the most pertinent questions on contemporary exhibition-making since its founding in 2009The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making is an anthology of the first 12 issues of the journal about contemporary curating that bears the same n ...Show more