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Theory in contemporary art : from 1985 to the present / edited by Zoya Kocur and Simon Leung.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.Description: xxiii, 444 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0631228675
  • 9780631228677
  • 9780631228684
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701.1 THE
Contents:
Part I.Contemporary art practices and models 1.The intellectual field: a world apart (1990). Pierre Bourdieu 2.When form has become attitude - and beyond (1994). Thierry de Duve 3.One place after another:notes on site specificity (1997). Miwon Kwon 4.The curator's moment (1998). Michael Brenson 5.How to provide an artistic service: an introduciton (1994). Andrea Fraser 6.Conversation pieces: the role of dialogue in socially-engage art (2004). Grant Kester 7."yBa" as critique: the socio-political inferences of the mediated identity of recent British Art (1997). James Gaywood Part II.Culture/identities/political fields 9.The war on culture (1990). Carole S. Vance 10.Feminist fundamentalism: women against images (1993). Carole S. Vance 11.AIDS: cultural analysis/cultural activitism (1987). Douglas Crimp 12.Architecture of the evicted (1990) Rosalyn Deutsche 13.Gender is burning: questions of appropriation and subversion (1993). Judith Butler 14.Cornered: a video installation project (1992). Adrian Piper 15.The mythology of difference: vulgar identity politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993). Charles A. Wright Jr 16.Haunted TV (1992). Avital Ronell Part III.Postcolonial critiques 17.The Marco Polo syndrome: some problems around art and Eurocentrism (1992). Geraro Mosquera 18.In the "Heart of Darkness". Olu Oguibe 19.The syncretic turn: cross-cultural practices in the age of multiculturalism (1006). Jean Fisher 20.Authenticity, reflexivity, and spectacle: or, the rise of New Asia is not the end of the world (2004). Lee Weng Choy 21.All-owning spectatorship (1991). Trinh T. Minh-Ha Part IV. Rethinking aesthetics. 22.A note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 (1989). Benhamin H. D. Buchloh 23.Notes on surface: toward a genealogy of flatness (2000). David Joselit 24.Ruins, fragmentation, and the Chinese moder/postmodern (1998) 25.Function and field: demarcating conceptual practices (2004). Nana Last 26.1989. Juli Carson Part V.Theories after postmodernism 27.Postmodernism and periphery (1987) 28.Looking for trouble( 1991). Kobena Mercer 29.Repossessing popular culture. (1993). Laura Kipnis 30.The lightness of theory (1993). John Rajchman 31.Informe without conclusion (1996). Rosalind Krauss 32.The database (2001). Lev Manovich.
Summary: A comprehensive and international anthology of theory in contemporary art of the last two decades, this collection focuses on key theoretical and aesthetic issues. These include cultural and multicultural theories, identity, politics, AIDS, post-colonialism, globalization and spectatorship.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 701.1 THE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 225095

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I.Contemporary art practices and models 1.The intellectual field: a world apart (1990). Pierre Bourdieu 2.When form has become attitude - and beyond (1994). Thierry de Duve 3.One place after another:notes on site specificity (1997). Miwon Kwon 4.The curator's moment (1998). Michael Brenson 5.How to provide an artistic service: an introduciton (1994). Andrea Fraser 6.Conversation pieces: the role of dialogue in socially-engage art (2004). Grant Kester 7."yBa" as critique: the socio-political inferences of the mediated identity of recent British Art (1997). James Gaywood Part II.Culture/identities/political fields 9.The war on culture (1990). Carole S. Vance 10.Feminist fundamentalism: women against images (1993). Carole S. Vance 11.AIDS: cultural analysis/cultural activitism (1987). Douglas Crimp 12.Architecture of the evicted (1990) Rosalyn Deutsche 13.Gender is burning: questions of appropriation and subversion (1993). Judith Butler 14.Cornered: a video installation project (1992). Adrian Piper 15.The mythology of difference: vulgar identity politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993). Charles A. Wright Jr 16.Haunted TV (1992). Avital Ronell Part III.Postcolonial critiques 17.The Marco Polo syndrome: some problems around art and Eurocentrism (1992). Geraro Mosquera 18.In the "Heart of Darkness". Olu Oguibe 19.The syncretic turn: cross-cultural practices in the age of multiculturalism (1006). Jean Fisher 20.Authenticity, reflexivity, and spectacle: or, the rise of New Asia is not the end of the world (2004). Lee Weng Choy 21.All-owning spectatorship (1991). Trinh T. Minh-Ha Part IV. Rethinking aesthetics. 22.A note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 (1989). Benhamin H. D. Buchloh 23.Notes on surface: toward a genealogy of flatness (2000). David Joselit 24.Ruins, fragmentation, and the Chinese moder/postmodern (1998) 25.Function and field: demarcating conceptual practices (2004). Nana Last 26.1989. Juli Carson Part V.Theories after postmodernism 27.Postmodernism and periphery (1987) 28.Looking for trouble( 1991). Kobena Mercer 29.Repossessing popular culture. (1993). Laura Kipnis 30.The lightness of theory (1993). John Rajchman 31.Informe without conclusion (1996). Rosalind Krauss 32.The database (2001). Lev Manovich.

A comprehensive and international anthology of theory in contemporary art of the last two decades, this collection focuses on key theoretical and aesthetic issues. These include cultural and multicultural theories, identity, politics, AIDS, post-colonialism, globalization and spectatorship.

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