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Loading... Parkett No. 79: Jon Kessler, Marilyn Minter and Albert Oehlenby Mark Godfrey
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Volume 79 of the influential international art journal Parkett features Jon Kessler, Marilyn Minter and Albert Oehlen. In the tinkered gadgetry of Kessler's retro sci-fi installations, we peek through surveillance cameras to see our own image among his analog programs crammed with detritus of all kinds. Kessler's vista of (d)evolved cyberstuff is in a manic state of accumulation, as this data-diving artist masters the ecology of pure information. Within Marilyn Minter's fetishistic, flawless pictures, we find a painter obsessed with the clear articulation of magnified sweat beads and pore-smeared glitter. In each successive lip-smacking painting, Minter sets out to perfect beauty's disguise, affirming both her pleasure in fashion imagery, and an appreciation of its vulgar mishaps--say, a drag queen's eyelashes clumped together with too much mascara. According to essayist John Kelsey, Albert Oehlen's collage-paintings "seem almost bored of their own shock-value." And yet this artist, one of the most significant German painters of the past 20 years, can make boredom look like a rigorous, if not delirious experiment. Also featured: Spencer Finch, Gelitin and Mark Wallinger, as well as essayists Paul Bonaventura, Mark Godfrey, Glenn O'Brien, Katy Siegel, Andrea Scott and Pamela Lee, to name a few. no reviews | add a review
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As the Vietnam War drew to a close and the Cold War entered a phase of détente, the decade of the 1970s opened for the U.S. Navy with a resurgence of thinking about naval strategy and the role of the Navy in American defense posture.While the emphasis during the 1950s and 1960s had been on nuclear deterrence, the experience of the Vietnam War and the rising number of local crises increasingly stressed the role of conventional arms. Many of the documents reprinted here were public statements. In all cases, however, these documents remain little known and mostly inaccessible, certainly outside the Navy itself. They need to be read with careful attention to their historical and institutional contexts. They are not always easy to interpret, and they differ substantially in the weight they carried at the time. For these reasons, the documents are accompanied by a general essay that locates them in their contexts, as well as by brief commentaries. This is one volume of a four part series; together, they will provide for the first time a comprehensive picture of the evolution of high-level U.S. Navy (and to some extent U.S.Marine Corps) strategic thinking over the half-century following the end of World War II. (Originally published by the Naval War College Press.) No library descriptions found. |
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