Theory in contemporary art : from 1985 to the present / edited by Zoya Kocur & Simon Leung.
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TextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.Description: 512 p. : illISBN: - 0631228675(pbk.)
- 9780631228677(pbk.)
- 709.04 KOC
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 709.04 KOC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100377705 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 is a groundbreaking anthology that captures the essence and the edge of the contemporary art scene.
Provides the first truly comprehensive and international anthology of theory in contemporary art of the last two decades.
Brings together a broad selection of important contributions to the fields of contemporary art, theory, and culture from established and emergent art voices, including scholars, curators, critics, and artists from around the globe.
Focuses on key theoretical and aesthetic issues in contemporary art, such as cultural/multicultural theory, identity politics, AIDS, post-colonialism, globalization, and spectatorship.
Includes editorial material and 44 illustrations.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Photo Credits
- How To Use This Book
- Introduction
- Part I Contemporary Art Practices and Models
- 1 The Intellectual Field: a world apart
- 2 When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond
- 3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity
- 4 The Curator's Moment
- 5 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction
- 6 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially Engaged Art
- 7 'yBa' as Critique: The Socio-Political Inferences of the Mediated
- 8 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens
- Part II Culture/Identities/Political Fields
- 9 The War on Culture
- 10 Feminist Fundamentalism: Women against Images
- 11 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism
- 12 Architecture of the Evicted
- 13 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion
- 14 Cornered: A Video Installation Project
- 15 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney
- 16 Haunted TV
- Part III Post-colonial Critiques
- 17 The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism
- 18 In the 'Heart of Darkness'
- 19 The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism
- 20 Authenticity, Reflexivity & Spectacle: or, the rise of New Asia is not the End of the World
- 21 All-Owning Spectatorship
- Part IV Rethinking Aesthetics
- 22 A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977
- 23 Notes on Surface: toward a genealogy of flatness
- 24 Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern
- 25 Function and Field
- 26 1989
- Part V Theories after Postmodernism
- 27 Postmodernism and Periphery
- 28 Looking for Trouble
- 29 Repossessing Popular Culture
- 30 The Lightness of Theory
- 31 Informe Without Conclusion
- 32 The Database
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Zoya Kocur is an independent scholar and adjunct faculty member of the Department of Art and Art Professions at New York University. She co-edited Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (1996) and has published articles on art pedagogy and museum education.Simon Leung is an artist and assistant professor in the Department of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2003) and the Whitney Biennial (1993).