Nature, as both subject and object, has been repeatedly rejected and reclaimed byartists over the last half century. With the dislocation of disciplinary boundaries in visualculture, art that is engag
In the late 1950s, experiments such as the cybernetic sculptures of Nicolas Schoffer or the programmatic music compositions of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis transposed systems theory from the sciences
The boundary of a contemporary art object or project is no longer something that exists only in physical space; it also exists in social, political, and ethical space. Art has opened up to transnation
After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at D
The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads."Practice" is one of the key words of contemporary
A secret history of craft told through lost and overlooked texts that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.“Craft” is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through wh
Historically, "queer" was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, "queer" was reappropriated and embr
The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s began a cultural shift from themodernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures andcircuits of the networ
Artists increasingly refer to "post-object-based" work while theoristsengage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on "object-based" learning treatsobjects as vectors for dialogue across discipl
Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter -- considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity
This anthology examines the expanded field of the moving image in recent art, tracing the genealogies of contemporary moving image work in performance, body art, experimental film, installation, and s
This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories,the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of "haunting" andthe activation of memory.
Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failure has become a central subject ofinvestigation in recent art. Celebrating failed promises and myths of the avant-garde, or settingout to realize seemi
This anthology reconsiders crucial aspects of abstraction's resurgence in contemporary art, exploring three equally significant strategies explored in current practice: formal abstraction, economic ab
This book will be an original and indispensable resource for all who believe in theimportance of art in the wider educational realm. Framing the recent "educational turn" inthe arts within a broad his
The "ruins" of the modern era are the landmarks of recent art's turn towardsite and situation, history and memory. The abiding interest of artists in ruination and decay hasled in particular to the co
It has been argued, most notably in psychoanalytic and modernist art discourse, thatthe production of works of art is fundamentally driven by sexual desire. It has been further argued,particularly sin
This anthology provides a multivocal critique of the exhibition of contemporary art,bringing together the writings of artists, curators, and theorists. Collectively these diverseperspectives are unite
Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialization, mass politics, and consumerism. From Manet o
The multiple platforms of the digital era have not diminished the role of the magazine for artists as an alternative medium and experimental space. Whether printed on paper or electronically generated
