Right about now : art & theory since the 1990s / edited by Margriet Schavemaker and Mischa Rakier.
Contributor(s): Schavemaker, Margriet [editor.]
| Rakier, Mischa [editor.].
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BookPublisher: Amsterdam : Valiz, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9078088176.Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 20th century | Art, Modern -- 21st century | Art criticismDDC classification: 709.049 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 709.049 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00231548 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Video art, the Internet, globalization, nomadism, itinerant curators and biennale artists, Installation and Process art, PowerPoint presentations, multiculturalism, design, magazines, fashion, lounges, the DJ, VJ and house culture, blockbuster exhibitions in art galleries, social works of art and socially engaged artists... The art of the past 15 years has moved into these new territories rapidly--so rapidly that more artwork than theoretical reflection or historical contextualization has been generated. During the 1960s, artists and critics were fiercely engaged in naming each new trend--Op Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism. Movements were mapped as they happened. In the 1990s, however, the art itself, and the experience it provided, became enough. Focusing on themes such as The Body, Interactivity, Engagement, Documentary Strategies, Money and Curating, Right About Now provides a map for this work, from the 1990s to the present.
Includes texts by Deborah Cheery, Maaike Bleeker, Nicolas Bourriaud, Claire Bishop, Hal Foster, Jeroen Boomgaard, Vit Havranek, Kitty Zijlmans, Sophie Berrebi, Olav Velthuis, Marc Spiegler, Jennifer Allen and Beatrice von Bismarck.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The body -- Interactivity -- Engagement -- Documentary strategies -- Money -- Curating.
"The art that has been produced in the last fifteen years has generated virtually no theoretical reflection or historical contextualization. The contrast with previous decades could scarcely be starker. In the 1960s artists and critics fell over each other to come up with names, complete with theory and genealogy for each new trend. Pop Art, Op Art, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art - they all had to have their own story. In the 1990s it was mainly the art itself and the experience it provided that were key. And yet this "art without theory" can, of course, be interpreted theoretically and put into a historical context. In Right about Now: Art and Theory since the 1995 an international group of renowned authors and newcomers in the field has accepted the challenge and endeavoured to bring together the art and theory of the recent past. Their thought-provoking contributions revolve around six topical themes." - back cover.