Eva Diaz – författare

Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twombly - the list goes on and on. Yet scholars have tended to view these artists' time at the college as little more than prologue, a step on their way to greatness. With The Experimenters, Eva Diaz reveals the influence of Black Mountain College - and especially of three key instructors, Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller - to be much greater than that. Diaz's focus is on experimentation. Albers, Cage, and Fuller, she shows, taught new models of art making that favored testing procedures rather than personal expression. The resulting projects not only reconfigured the relationships among chance, order, and design - they helped redefine what artistic practice was, and could be, for future generations. Offering a bold, compelling new angle on some of the most widely studied creative minds of the twentieth century, The Experimenters does nothing less than rewrite the story of art in the mid-twentieth century.

An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures  Architect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller’s (1895–1983) concept of “Spaceship Earth,” one of the most powerful metaphors of the twentieth century, imagines our planet as a monumental vehicle sustained by the interdependence of human technologies and natural ecologies. In this book, Eva Díaz explores that metaphor through the work of contemporary artists from around the world who grapple with Fuller’s project to promote the equitable distribution of global assets through design, and with the technocratic euphoria of his era.  Beginning with a focus on Fuller’s iconic geodesic dome design and moving to the extraplanetary implications of his ideas, Díaz illuminates how artists including John Akomfrah, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hito Steyerl, and many others draw from Fuller’s mode of experimental design research to create provocative alternatives to corporate control and surveillance. These artists probe the space “race” and colonization as powerful means to readdress histories of violence and racial inequity. Díaz critiques the ecological costs of technological innovation and the role that techno-utopianism has played in political, economic, gender, and racial domination. Highlighting Afrofuturism, ecofeminism, and new ideas of citizenship, After Spaceship Earth conveys the vital afterlives of Fuller’s concept for today’s world-builders, posing vital questions of its usefulness and limits.

The first comprehensive, career-spanning study of American artist Dorothea Rockburne  This in-depth retrospective of American abstract artist Dorothea Rockburne’s (b. 1932) seven-decade career considers the full scope and varied range of her elegant yet deceptively simple sculptures, installations, and paintings. Following Rockburne from her time at Black Mountain College in the 1950s, where she developed a lifelong interest in mathematical concepts such as topology and set theory, through her period as a member of the Judson Dance Theater to the present day and her continuing artistic practice, this volume sheds new light on the mix of deep conceptual thinking and physicality that informs Rockburne’s work. Never-before-published archival writings, studies, and drawings accompany essays that focus on different aspects of Rockburne’s art, including her painstaking creative process, use of such nontraditional materials as chipboard, cup grease, paper, and linen, and the ways that Rockburne emphasizes subjectivity and emotion. Lavishly illustrated and featuring scholarship that puts her work in dialogue with feminism, minimalism, and wider contemporary abstraction, this is the definitive resource on Rockburne’s expansive and groundbreaking oeuvre.  Distributed for Dia Art Foundation

The follow-up to Real Traders, Real Lives, Real Money, this book explains how a landscape gardener turned full-time trader transformed $32 000 into $110 000 in nine weeks trading contracts for difference (CFDs). Other top Australian traders'' secrets for making profi table returns from CFD trading are also shared, including their trading strategies and tactics, trading routines and psychology, tips, mistakes and lessons learnt.

The follow-up to Real Traders, Real Lives, Real Money, this book explains how a landscape gardener turned full-time trader transformed $32 000 into $110 000 in nine weeks trading contracts for difference (CFDs). Other top Australian traders'' secrets for making profi table returns from CFD trading are also shared, including their trading strategies and tactics, trading routines and psychology, tips, mistakes and lessons learnt.

Jorge (Coco) González, un regiomontano promedio recién graduado y gozando del estatus privilegiado de sus padres, decide que es buena idea seguir sus consejos y darle el anillo de compromiso que ha estado en su familia por varias generaciones a Alicia, su novia de casi cinco años. Raúl, su mejor amigo desde la infancia, quien vive una vida un poco más relajada y desacelerada atestigua cada paso de la vida de Coco, compartiendo una relación casi fraternal con él. Las circunstancias, impulsos y decisiones de ambos los orillan a cuestionar la autenticidad de esa amistad, enfrentando crisis amorosas, existenciales y la incertidumbre de un futuro fortuito.