Utopias (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262640694 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Buchloh's infamous reading of Beuys as a historic self-mythologizer. All rights reserved. Marred only by the brevity of the individual selections, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the art-world's current impasse between willful naïveté and postmodern cynicism. From Publishers Weekly This timely and well-chosen collection of texts on the notion of utopia examines the concept as a recurrent literary and theoretical trope and as it relates to contemporary artistic practice. . While including such suspects as Adorno and Foucault, the book offers a perceptive selection of writings on and by such artists as Joseph Beuys, Liam Gillick and Thomas Hirschhorn, while critics are amply represented with superb pieces by the likes of Jan Verwoert on the avant-garde gesture and Benjamin H.D. Succinctly contextualized by Noble as an impulse or tendency rather than a plac
The utopian impulse informs politically activist and relational art, practices that fuse elements of art, design, and architecture, and collaborative projects aspiring to progressive social or political change. This anthology contextualizes these utopian currents in relation to political thought, viewing the utopian as a key term in the artistic lineage of modernity. It illuminates how the exploration of utopian themes in art today contributes to our understanding of contemporary cultures, and the possibilities for shaping their futures.Artistis surveyed includeJoseph Beuys, Paul Chan, Guy Debord, Jeremy Deller, Liam Gillick, Antony Gormley, Dan Graham, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Paul McCarthy, Constant A. Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgement that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Two other tendencies have emerged in recent art: a looking backward to investigate the utopian elements of previous eras, and the imaginative modeling of alternative worlds as intimations of possibility. Leon, Karl Marx, Jeremy Millar, Thomas More, William Morris, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, George Orwell, Jacques Rancière, Ste
He is a Lecturer in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, London.. Richard Noble is a scholar of contemporary art, critical theory, and the interrelation of art and politics
"interesting read" according to Carol Riedel. this a book of essay about the meanings and visions of utopia and distopias. interesting. Lydia Elizalde said Five Stars. Useful for academic references.