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Failure / edited by Lisa Le Feuvre.

Contributor(s): Le Feuvre, Lisa [editor.] | Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Documents of contemporary art series: Publisher: London : Cambridge, Mass. : Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press, 2010Description: 238 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262514774 (paperback); 026251477X (paperback) .Subject(s): Failure (Psychology) in art | Arts, Modern -- 20th century | Arts, Modern -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 701
Contents:
Fable of failure in Modern Art, 1997 / Paul Barolsky -- Success and failure of Picasso, 1965 / John Berger -- Interview with Felicitas Thun, 1998 / Dieter Roth -- Rightness of wrong, 1997 / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- On John Baldessari, 2008 / Sarah Thornton -- Man who couldn't get up : Paul Thek, 1995 / Stuart Morgan -- On another throwaway gesture performance (1979), 1984 / Ray Johnson -- David Critchley : Pieces I never did (1979), 2005 / Clive Gillman -- There's no success like failure : Martin Kippenberger, 2006 / Marcus Verhagen -- Authenticity and failure : Luc Tuymans, 2004 / Emma Dexter -- Just pathetic, 2004 / Michael Wilson -- Feint art : Martin Creed, Ceal Floyer, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber, Paul Pfeiffer, 2003 / Mark Prince -- Rites of silence : Wade Guyton, 2004 / Johanna Burton -- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster : De Novo, 2009 / Daniel Birnbaum -- Memory and imagination, 2000 / Paul Ricoeur -- Concept of irony, 1841 / Søren Kierkegaard -- Bartleby, or The formula, 1989 / Gilles Deleuze -- Bartleby, or On contingency, 1993 / Giorgio Agamben -- On the nonsense of sense and the sense of nonsense, 1995 / Paul Watzlawick -- Invention of failure : interview with Sina Najafi and David Serlin, 2002 / Scott A. Sandage -- Anarchy, poem I, 1988 / John Cage -- Exemplar : Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1994 / Joseph Kosuth -- Partially buried. Version B : reading script, 1999 / Reneé Green -- Failures : Annika Strom̈, 2008 / Lotte Møller -- Embarrassing truth : Matthew Brannon, 2008 / Jennifer Higgie -- Tate declaration on inauthenticity, 2009 / International Necronautical Society -- Judgement and purpose, 1987 / Joel Fisher -- Eternal return, 2003 / Brian Dillon -- Something caused one of the glass panels to crack ..., 1997 / Larry Bell -- Bad news, 1971 / William Wegman -- TV hijack (1972), 1973 ; On Pearl Harbour (1971), 1990 / Chris Burden -- And he fell into the sea, 1996 / Tacita Dean -- Statement, 1978 / Julian Schnabel -- Bound to fail, 2005 / Christy Lange -- All of a sudden, 2008 / Jor̈g Heiser -- Odd couple : interview with Jor̈g Heiser, 2006 ; How to work better, 1991 / Fischli & Weiss -- Moving world of Janette Paris, 2002 / Richard Hylton -- Holes in our pants, 2007 / Heike Bollig and Barbara Buchmaier -- Over and over, again and again, 2009 / Emma Cocker -- Sounddance : Bruce Nauman, 1988 / Coosje van Bruggen -- Interview with Michaela Meise, 2008 / Yvonne Rainer -- Conversation with Dennis Wheeler, 1969-70 / Robert Smithson -- For nobody knows himself, if he is only himself and not also another one at the same time, On Allen Ruppersberg, 2002 / Frances Stark -- Unended quest, 1974 / Karl Popper -- Cheerful and heroic failure, 2004 / Bazon Brock -- Prometheus' delay : Roman signer, 1995 / Jean-Yves Jouannais -- Leap backwards into the future : Paul Ramirez Jonas, 2004 / Ineś Katzenstein -- Village, 1997 / Will Bradley -- Manned flight, 1999- / Simon Patterson -- Failure as a poetic dimension, 2001 / Harald Szeemann -- Politics of rehearsal : Francis Alys̈, 2007 / Russell Ferguson -- Failure as a form of art, 2009 / Hans-Joachim Mul̈ler -- Which way to heaven : Phil Collins, 2007 / Edgar Schmitz -- Make life beautiful! the diabolic in the work of Isa Genzken, 2007 / Lisa Lee -- Thoughts on failure, idealism and art, 2008 / Eduardo Abaroa ... [et al.] -- Transcript from Three perspectives and a short scenario, 2008 / Liam Gillick -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921 / Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Summary: Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged and risk considered a viable position. Between the poles of success and failure lies a productive space where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This anthology establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural production. Artists surveyed include: Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alys, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, David Critchley, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wade Guyton, International Necronautical Society, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Bruce Nauman, Simon Patterson, Janette Parris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Allen Ruppersberg, Roman Signer, Annika Strom, Paul Thek and William Wegman. Writers include: Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock, Johanna Burton, Emma Cocker, Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Jorg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee, Stuart Morgan, Hans-Joachim Muller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz and Coosje van Bruggen. -- Back cover.
Holdings
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Celebrating failed promises and myths of the avant-garde, or setting out to realize seemingly impossible tasks, artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged, and risk considered a viable strategy. The abstract possibilities opened up by failure are further reinforced by the problems of physically realizing artworks--wrestling with ideas, representation, and object-making. By amplifying both theoretical and practical failure, artists have sought new, unexpected ways of opening up endgame situations, ranging from the ideological shadow of the white cube to unfulfilled promises of political emancipation. Between the two subjective poles of success and failure lies a space of potentially productive operations where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This collection of writings, statements, mediations, fictions, polemics, and discussions identifies failure as a core concern in cultural production. Failure identifies moments of thought that have eschewed consensus, choosing to address questions rather than answers.

Artists surveyed include Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, David Critchley, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Félix González-Torres, Wade Guyton, International Necronautical Society, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Bruce Nauman, Simon Patterson, Janette Parris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Allen Ruppersberg, Roman Signer, Annika Ström, Paul Thek, William WegmanWriters include Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock, Johanna Burton, Emma Cocker, Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee, Stuart Morgan, Hans-Joachim Müller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz, Coosje van Bruggen

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232) and index.

Fable of failure in Modern Art, 1997 / Paul Barolsky -- Success and failure of Picasso, 1965 / John Berger -- Interview with Felicitas Thun, 1998 / Dieter Roth -- Rightness of wrong, 1997 / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- On John Baldessari, 2008 / Sarah Thornton -- Man who couldn't get up : Paul Thek, 1995 / Stuart Morgan -- On another throwaway gesture performance (1979), 1984 / Ray Johnson -- David Critchley : Pieces I never did (1979), 2005 / Clive Gillman -- There's no success like failure : Martin Kippenberger, 2006 / Marcus Verhagen -- Authenticity and failure : Luc Tuymans, 2004 / Emma Dexter -- Just pathetic, 2004 / Michael Wilson -- Feint art : Martin Creed, Ceal Floyer, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber, Paul Pfeiffer, 2003 / Mark Prince -- Rites of silence : Wade Guyton, 2004 / Johanna Burton -- Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster : De Novo, 2009 / Daniel Birnbaum -- Memory and imagination, 2000 / Paul Ricoeur -- Concept of irony, 1841 / Søren Kierkegaard -- Bartleby, or The formula, 1989 / Gilles Deleuze -- Bartleby, or On contingency, 1993 / Giorgio Agamben -- On the nonsense of sense and the sense of nonsense, 1995 / Paul Watzlawick -- Invention of failure : interview with Sina Najafi and David Serlin, 2002 / Scott A. Sandage -- Anarchy, poem I, 1988 / John Cage -- Exemplar : Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1994 / Joseph Kosuth -- Partially buried. Version B : reading script, 1999 / Reneé Green -- Failures : Annika Strom̈, 2008 / Lotte Møller -- Embarrassing truth : Matthew Brannon, 2008 / Jennifer Higgie -- Tate declaration on inauthenticity, 2009 / International Necronautical Society -- Judgement and purpose, 1987 / Joel Fisher -- Eternal return, 2003 / Brian Dillon -- Something caused one of the glass panels to crack ..., 1997 / Larry Bell -- Bad news, 1971 / William Wegman -- TV hijack (1972), 1973 ; On Pearl Harbour (1971), 1990 / Chris Burden -- And he fell into the sea, 1996 / Tacita Dean -- Statement, 1978 / Julian Schnabel -- Bound to fail, 2005 / Christy Lange -- All of a sudden, 2008 / Jor̈g Heiser -- Odd couple : interview with Jor̈g Heiser, 2006 ; How to work better, 1991 / Fischli & Weiss -- Moving world of Janette Paris, 2002 / Richard Hylton -- Holes in our pants, 2007 / Heike Bollig and Barbara Buchmaier -- Over and over, again and again, 2009 / Emma Cocker -- Sounddance : Bruce Nauman, 1988 / Coosje van Bruggen -- Interview with Michaela Meise, 2008 / Yvonne Rainer -- Conversation with Dennis Wheeler, 1969-70 / Robert Smithson -- For nobody knows himself, if he is only himself and not also another one at the same time, On Allen Ruppersberg, 2002 / Frances Stark -- Unended quest, 1974 / Karl Popper -- Cheerful and heroic failure, 2004 / Bazon Brock -- Prometheus' delay : Roman signer, 1995 / Jean-Yves Jouannais -- Leap backwards into the future : Paul Ramirez Jonas, 2004 / Ineś Katzenstein -- Village, 1997 / Will Bradley -- Manned flight, 1999- / Simon Patterson -- Failure as a poetic dimension, 2001 / Harald Szeemann -- Politics of rehearsal : Francis Alys̈, 2007 / Russell Ferguson -- Failure as a form of art, 2009 / Hans-Joachim Mul̈ler -- Which way to heaven : Phil Collins, 2007 / Edgar Schmitz -- Make life beautiful! the diabolic in the work of Isa Genzken, 2007 / Lisa Lee -- Thoughts on failure, idealism and art, 2008 / Eduardo Abaroa ... [et al.] -- Transcript from Three perspectives and a short scenario, 2008 / Liam Gillick -- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921 / Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged and risk considered a viable position. Between the poles of success and failure lies a productive space where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This anthology establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural production. Artists surveyed include: Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alys, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, David Critchley, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wade Guyton, International Necronautical Society, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Bruce Nauman, Simon Patterson, Janette Parris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Allen Ruppersberg, Roman Signer, Annika Strom, Paul Thek and William Wegman. Writers include: Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock, Johanna Burton, Emma Cocker, Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Jorg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee, Stuart Morgan, Hans-Joachim Muller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz and Coosje van Bruggen. -- Back cover.

MTU Cork Module ARTS8046 - Recommended reading.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Part of the MIT Press' series "Documents of Contemporary Art" (co-published with London's Whitechapel Gallery), this volume has an all-encompassing title, but is really about failure as an artist. This broad anthology includes artists' statements, interviews with artists, exhibit reviews, something called a "reading script," literary analysis, and philosophical texts. While this eclectic approach keeps things interesting, it comes at a cost: a number of pieces have been cut too much; some seem deliberately obscure; and not all selections are equally interesting. Still, the book does what this kind of project should: it introduces you to unfamiliar ideas, authors, and practices; offers new approaches; and raises new questions. Presumably, it's intended for people who make or write about art, but you certainly don't have to be an artist to appreciate new ways of thinking about failure and, not coincidentally, success. As artist Chris Burden says when describing a performance piece gone awry: "I'm sure the people who organized the event were disappointed, but I was quite elated. I'd been so wrong in my expectations." (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Lisa Le Feuvre is Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England.