Anywhere or not at all: The philosophy of contemporary art
- Type:
- boek
- Titel:
- Anywhere or not at all: The philosophy of contemporary art
- Jaar:
- 2013
- Taal:
- Onbepaald
- Uitgever:
- London Verso 2013
- Plaatsnummer:
- ORPH.PHI OSBO a (Orpheus Instituut)
- ISBN:
- 9781781680940
- Paginering:
- 282
- Samenvatting:
- Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Developing the position that 'contemporary art is postconceptual art,' the book progresses through a dual series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of particular works to assess the art from a number of perspectives: contemporaneity and its global context; art against aesthetic; the Romantic pre-history of conceptual art; the multiplicity of modernisms; transcategoriality; conceptual abstraction; photographic ontology; digitalization; and the institutional and existential complexities of art-space and art-time. Anywhere or Not at All maps out the conceptual space for an art that is both critical and contemporary in the era of global capitalism.
- Permalink:
- https://cageweb.be/catalog/orp01:000013993
