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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Everyday

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• Writings on the "turn to the ordinary" in contemporary art examine the various ways artists have engaged with the everyday since 1945. Numerous intern... Lees meer

Networks

Lars Bang Larsen

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• The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s initiated a cultural shift from the modernist grid's determination of projection and representation ... Lees meer