Henry Bond Bücher

The appeal of Henry Bond's photography lies in its deceptive simplicity. His photographs are portraits of modern urban life in all its incidental glory. Parks, private parties, pop stars and local convenience stores all feature alongside fleeting shots of Titanic, Top Shop and Momo's in this book.

''What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had worked as a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat, but in Lacan at the Scene, Henry Bond makes a serious and provocative claim: that apparently impenetrable events of violent death can be more effectively unraveled with Lacan's theory of psychoanalysis than with elaborate, technologically advanced forensic tools. Bond's exposition on murder expands and develops a resolutely Žižekian approach. Seeking out radical and unexpected readings, Bond unpacks his material utilizing Lacan's neurosis-psychosis-perversion grid.Bond places Lacan at the crime scene and builds his argument through a series of archival crime scene photographs from the 1950s--the period when Lacan was developing his influential theories. It is not the horror of the ravished and mutilated corpses that draws his attention; instead, he interrogates seemingly minor details from the everyday, isolating and rephotographing what at first seems insignificant: a single high heeled shoe on a kitchen table, for example, or carefully folded clothes placed over a chair. From these mundane details he carefully builds a robust and comprehensive manual for Lacanian crime investigation that can stand beside the FBI's standard-issue Crime Classification Manual.''-- Fourni par l'éditeur

Mid-flight accidents in the USAF during training and utility flights often result in tragic outcomes, including loss of life and significant aircraft damage. One notable incident involved the destruction of a $2.2 billion B-2 Spirit bomber shortly after takeoff, highlighting the risks and challenges faced by military aviation. The book delves into these mishaps, exploring their frequency and impact on both personnel and resources.

This is the catalogue of Tate Modern's first major exhibition, due to open in February 2001. The modern city provides the social, aesthetic, historical and political framework within which to explore the arts and ideas of the 20th century. The book focuses on nine cities across the world, which, at specific moments in the 20th century, have all acted as cauldrons of innovation to visual culture. It examines a multitude of artistic practices including architecture, design, film, performance art, philosophy, poetry, literature, and music, as well as painting, photography, and sculpture. Among the cities considered is Paris (1905-1915), as the centre of an international avant-garde where Cubist masterpieces evolved in parallel with dance and literature generated by the habitues of cafes or garrets; 1920s Moscow, where Russian Contructivism focused art, architecture, design, and cinema into a grand utopian vision; post-colonial Lagos, where "high life" music provided the ambience for artists and intellectuals to create a cultural ferment; and Tokyo in the 1970s, where conceptual and performance-based strategies and New Wave cinema flourished.

Techniques Anglaise presents the work of more than two dozen of the most prominent young artists working in Britain today. The artists have created pages especially for the book which represent their work whilst a forum of leading critics commentators and gallerists participate in an introductory discussion on the complex issue raised by this unique grouping.