Theory in Contemporary Art Since 1985

2. Revised Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3857-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1099 g

Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and art reproductions to capture the vibrancy and dissonance that define today's art scene.

* Incorporates new and updated topics that have become central to art theory and practice over the past decade
* New and updated chapters cover such topics as: international biennials, historicizing of the term "contemporary art", aesthetics, art and politics, feminism and pornography, ecology and art, the Middle East and conflict studies, Eastern European art and politics, gender and war, and technology
* Features a thematic reconfiguration of sections and new introductions to make readings user-friendly
* Extensively illustrated throughout with an expanded color-plate section
* New contributions to this edition include those by Alexander Alberro, Claire Bishop, T.J. Demos, Anthony Downey, Liam Gillick, Marina Gr?iniæ, Mary Kelly, Chantal Mouffe, Beatriz Preciado, Jacques Ranciere, Blake Stimson, and Chin-Tao Wu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kocur, Zoya

Leung, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

How to Use this Book
Author Biographies

Introduction

Part 1: The field of Contemporary Art

1. The Intellectual Field: a world apart
Pierre Bourdieu

2. When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond
Thierry de Duve

3. One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity
Miwon Kwon

4. Biennials without Borders
Chin-Tao Wu

5. Periodising Contemporary Art
Alexander Alberro

6. Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics
Jacques Ranciere

Part 2: Practices and Models/Rethinking Form and Medium

7. A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977
Benjamin Buchloh

8. Notes on Surface: toward a genealogy of flatness
David Joselit

9. Informe Without Conclusion
Rosalind Krauss

10. Video Projection: The Space Between Screens
Liz Kotz

11. How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction
Andrea Fraser

12. Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art
Grant Kester

13. Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics
Claire Bishop

Part 3: Culture/Identities/Political Agency

14. The War on Culture
Carole S. Vance

15. AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism
Douglas Crimp

16. Architecture of the Evicted
Rosalyn Deutsche

17. Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion
Judith Butler

18. Looking for Trouble
Kobena Mercer

19. The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney
Charles A. Wright, Jr.

20. Haunted TV
Avital Ronell

21. Museum, Urban Detritus and Pornography
Beatriz Preciado

22. Cultural Workers as Organic Intellectuals
Chantal Mouffe

Part 4: Post-colonial Critiques

23. "The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism
Gerardo Mosquer

24. In the 'Heart of Darkness'
Olu Oguibe

25. The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism
Jean Fisher

26. Authenticity, Reflexivity & Spectacle: or, the rise of New Asia is not the End of the World
Lee Weng Choy

27. All-Owning Spectatorship
Trinh T. Minh-Ha

28. Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern
Wu Hung

Part 5: Art Subjects/Historical Subjects

29. Introduction to Re-Politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology
Marina Gr iniæ

30. Miming the Master: Boy-things Bad Girls, and Femme Vitales
Mary Kelly

31. Zones of Indistinction: Giorgio Agamben's 'Bare Life' and the Politics of Aesthetics
Anthony Downey

32. The Database
Lev Manovich

33. For the Love of Abstraction
Blake Stimson

34. The Politics of Sustainability: Art and Ecology
T.J. Demos

Über Autor(innen)

Zoya Kocur is an independent scholar based in New York. She has taught at New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is the former Associate Curator of Education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Her publications include Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology (2011) and, as co-editor, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (1996).

Simon Leung is an artist based in New York and Los Angeles, and Professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, where he is the head of the New Genres area. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, and the Guangzhou Triennial.