Selected Works from the School of Visual Arts, New York
Octet: Selected Works from the School of Visual Arts was an exhibition of 111 artworks, which showcased painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and the digital arts, created by faculty, alumni and students of the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The exhibition catalogue presents an amalgam of diverse threads operating within an international cultural platform enabling a platform for the discussion of current issues. The exhibition consisted of eight categories describing contemporary visual art: Word As Image, Post-Pop and Tabloid, Material Matters, The Corporeal and the Divine, World Dramas, Narrative Imperatives, Relational Aesthetics and Identity and Identity Politics.
The selection of work exhibited in Octet presented art's freedom from the constraints of time and space, allowing our desire for understanding, considering and reconsidering systems of knowledge production, aesthetic experience.
Date of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 203
ISBN: 987-975-9123-63-5
5 Foreword
Suna, İnan & İpek Kıraç
7 Foreword
David Rhodes
President School of Visual Arts
11 Acknowledgements
Peter Hristoff
15 Octet; Selected Works from the School of Visual Arts, New York
Suzanne Anker
23 Word As Image
33 Post Pop and Tabloid
53 Personal Matters
75 The Corporeal and Divine
97 World Dramas
121 Narrative Imperatives
141 Relational Aesthetics
151 Identity and Identity Politics
Octet: Selected Works from the School of Visual Arts, was an exhibition of 111 artworks, which showcased painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and the digital arts, created by faculty, alumni and students of the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Exercises in Spaces and Texts
Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, a History
Photographs From and Around Göbeklitepe
The Story of Stories
Works from the Nobel Collection
Photographs of the Anatolian Shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th Century
Photographs of the Rumeli shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th century
Suna Kıraç’ın izinde 10 yılın öyküsü
Rıdvan Akar
A History of Kütahya Pottery and Potters
Ernst Krickl
Paths to Rediscovery, 1800-1955
Byzantium in Popular Culture
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