Art Is a Problem : Selected Criticism, Essays, Interviews and Curatorial Projects (1986-2012)
Overview
In this volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts and reviews, spanning 1986-2012, Joshua Decter examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts. The book encompasses seven chapters: "Institutional Critique(R) and its Discontents"; "Aporia (art as politics, the politics of art)"; "Everything is Social"; "Convoluted Cities"; "The (Un)De-definition of Art"; "What Do We Want from Exhibitions?"; and "On the Curatorial Road." The author unpacks art's paradoxical condition: art problematizes, and is intrinsically a problem. From this standpoint, he analyzes art's definitions, functions, ethical entanglements, societal aspirations and cultural contradictions.
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- ISBN-13: 9783037641958
- ISBN-10: 3037641959
- Publisher: Jrpeditions
- Publish Date: March 2014
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.45 pounds
- Page Count: 446
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