On Contemporary Art
On Contemporary Art

Author: Cesar Aira

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

Published: 2018-11-20

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1941701868

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Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist César Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Aira’s dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under question—from reproducibility of artworks to the value of the written word itself. In the end, Aira leaves us stranded on the bridge between writing and art that he set out to construct in the first place, flailing as we try to make sense of where we stand. Aira’s On Contemporary Art exemplifies what the ekphrasis series is dedicated to doing—exploring the space in which words give meaning to objects, and objects shape our words. Like the great writers Walter Benjamin and Hermann Broch before him, Aira operates in the space between fiction and essay writing, art and analysis. Pursuing questions about reproducibility, art making, and limits of language, Aira’s unique voice adds new insights to the essential conversations that continue to inform our understanding of art.

Art and Authority
Art and Authority

Author: K. E. Gover

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0198768699

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'Art and Authority' explores the sources, nature, and limits of artistic freedom. The author draws upon real-world cases and controversies in contemporary visual art to offer a better understanding of artistic authorship and authority. Each chapter focuses on a case of dispute over the rights of an artist with respect to his or her artwork.

Themes of Contemporary Art
Themes of Contemporary Art

Author: Jean Robertson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780190078331

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"Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 offers students and readers an introduction to recent art"--

Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice
Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice

Author: Christian Mieves

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 131751792X

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Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new perspective on this overlooked connection, allowing a unique insight into the role of wonder in contemporary visual practice. Artists, curators and art theorists give accounts of their approach to wonder through the use of materials, objects and ways of exhibiting. These accounts not only raise issues of a particular relevance to the way in which we encounter our reality today but ask to what extent artists utilize the function of wonder purposely in their work.

Anywhere or Not at All
Anywhere or Not at All

Author: Peter Osborne

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2013-06-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1781680949

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A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time 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. Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA)

Masters of Contemporary Fine Art
Masters of Contemporary Fine Art

Author: Art Galaxie

Publisher:

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781483561271

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"Masters of Contemporary Fine Art" is the first edition of an annual publication dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of high quality Contemporary Art. Painting, Sculpture, Drawing and Digital Art are the categories that we have chosen to publish in this art book. The vast range of expressive techniques and also the different styles in each category add value, depict fascinating rhythm and captivate diversity. The book is also a powerful tool for research, consultation or study for Artists, Collectors, Galleries, Art Dealers and Art Lovers.

What was Contemporary Art?
What was Contemporary Art?

Author: Richard Meyer

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0262135086

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"Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history. Yet all works of art were once contemporary to the artist and culture that produced them. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture.

Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement
Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement

Author: Shin, Ryan

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1522516662

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Art is a multi-faceted part of human society, and often is used for more than purely aesthetic purposes. When used as a narrative on modern society, art can actively engage citizens in cultural and pedagogical discussions. Convergence of Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Global Civic Engagement is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the relationship between popular media, art, and visual culture, analyzing how this intersection promotes global pedagogy and learning. Highlighting relevant perspectives from both international and community levels, this book is ideally designed for professionals, upper-level students, researchers, and academics interested in the role of art in global learning.

Contemporary Art and Disability Studies
Contemporary Art and Disability Studies

Author: Alice Wexler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0429536496

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This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to art. It is organized in five thematic parts: methodologies of access, agency, and ethics in cultural institutions; the politics and ethics of collaboration; embodied representations of artists with disabilities in the visual and performing arts; negotiating the outsider art label; and first-person reflections on disability and artmaking. This volume will be of interest to scholars who study disability studies, art history, art education, gender studies, museum studies, and visual culture.