Retroactivity and Contemporary Art / Craig Staff.

By:

Staff, Craig [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781350009998
1350009997
1350009970
9781350009974

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

709.05 23

LOC classification:

N6497 .S73 2018eb

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Introduction -- Modernism in ruins -- Index (tracing) -- The reality of ends -- When, even if -- Still there, waiting (retracing).

Summary: Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered. Through specific case studies of artists who strategically work with historical moments, this book examines how art from the last two decades has sought to mobilize these particular histories, and to what effect, against the backdrop of Modernism. Drawing on the art theory of Rosalind Krauss and the philosophies of Walter Benjamin, Gerhard Richter, and Giorgio Agamben, 'Retroactivity and Contemporary Art' interprets those works that foreground some aspect of retroactivity - whether re-enacting, commemorating, or re-imagining - as key artistic strategies.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-184) and index.

Introduction -- Modernism in ruins -- Index (tracing) -- The reality of ends -- When, even if -- Still there, waiting (retracing).

Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered. Through specific case studies of artists who strategically work with historical moments, this book examines how art from the last two decades has sought to mobilize these particular histories, and to what effect, against the backdrop of Modernism. Drawing on the art theory of Rosalind Krauss and the philosophies of Walter Benjamin, Gerhard Richter, and Giorgio Agamben, 'Retroactivity and Contemporary Art' interprets those works that foreground some aspect of retroactivity - whether re-enacting, commemorating, or re-imagining - as key artistic strategies.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.