Participation

Claire Bishop

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• This title explores the desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers. Participation begins with writings... Lees meer

Information

Sarah Cook

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• While information science draws distinctions between 'information', signals and data, artists from the 1960s to the present have questioned the validi... Lees meer

Destruction

Sven Spieker

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• Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Contextualises a recent focus on the subject of... Lees meer

The Cute

Sianne Ngai

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• The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices an... Lees meer

Boredom

Sven Spieker

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• Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialisation, mass politics and consum... Lees meer

Chance

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• Why chance remains a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world. The chance situation or random event--whether as a strategy ... Lees meer

Health

Barbara Rodriguez Munoz

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• Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. This anthology explores the ethical, aesthetic ... Lees meer

Failure

Lisa Le Feuvre

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• Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of fail... Lees meer

The Everyday

Stephen Johnstone

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• Numerous international exhibitions and biennales have born witness to the range of contemporary art engaged with the everyday and its antecedents in D... Lees meer

Nature

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• Contemporary artists' radical investigations of nature, juxtaposed with the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform their art. Natur... Lees meer

Appropriation

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• Important documents and appraisals of appropriation art from Duchamp's readymades to feminist and postcolonial critique. Scavenging, replicating, or r... Lees meer

Painting

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• Essential writings that consider the diverse meanings of contemporary painting since its postconceptual revival. The "death of painting" and its subse... Lees meer

Ethics

Walead Beshty

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• The boundary of a contemporary art object or project is no longer thought of solely in physical terms but rather in relation to the specific social fi... Lees meer

Speculation

Marina Vishmidt

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• Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary a... Lees meer

The Archive

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• The significance of the archive in modernity and in contemporary art; writings by Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Hal Foster, and others, and essays o... Lees meer

Documents of Contemporary Art: Magic

Jamie Sutcliffe

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• From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination wi... Lees meer

Destruction

Sven Spieker

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• Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Explores the processes and techniques which fun... Lees meer

Time

Amelia Groom

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• This anthology contextualizes art that proposes alternatives to the models of linear time that have underpinned both capitalism and progressive modern... Lees meer

Walking

Tom Jeffreys

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• Across the world, walking remains a vital way to assert one's presence in public space and discourse. Foregrounding work by Black artists, Indigenous ... Lees meer

Animals

Filipa Ramos

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• Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions. Contemporary art has become a p... Lees meer

Translation

Sophie Williamson

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• Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. An essential collection of texts reflecting on ... Lees meer

The Magazine

Gwen Allen

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• The multiple platforms of the digital era have not diminished the role of the magazine for artists as an alternative medium and experimental space. In... Lees meer

Failure

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• Investigations of failure as a key concern--as theme, strategy, and world view--of recent art. Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failure has... Lees meer

Beauty

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• Key texts on beauty and its revival in contemporary art. Beauty has emerged as one of the most hotly contested subjects in current discussions on art ... Lees meer