Anywhere or not at all : philosophy of contemporary art / Peter Osborne.
2013
N6490 .O733 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Anywhere or not at all : philosophy of contemporary art / Peter Osborne.
Author
Osborne, Peter, 1958-
Edition
First edition, paperback.
ISBN
9781781680940 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
1781680949 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9781781681138 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1781681139 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1781680949 (paperback) (alkaline paper)
9781781681138 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1781681139 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
Published
London ; New York : Verso, 2013.
Language
English
Description
v, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
N6490 .O733 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.05/101
Summary
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. What kind of discourse can help us give it a critical sense? Anywhere or Not At All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Setting out the claim that "contemporary art is postconceptual art", the book elaborates a series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of works by Navjot Altaf, the Atlas Group, Amar Kanwar, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gerhard Richter and Robert Smithson, among others. It concludes with new accounts of the institutional and existential complexities of "art space" and "art time". Anywhere or Not At All maps out the conceptual coordinates for an art that is both critical and contemporary in the era of global capitalism. -- Publisher description.
"Setting out the claim that 'contemporary art is postconceptual art', the book elaborates a series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of works by Navjot Altaf, the Atlas Group, Amar Kanwar, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gerhard Richter and Robert Smithson, among others. It concludes with new accounts of the institutional and existential complexities of 'art space' and 'art time'."--Back cover.
"Setting out the claim that 'contemporary art is postconceptual art', the book elaborates a series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of works by Navjot Altaf, the Atlas Group, Amar Kanwar, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gerhard Richter and Robert Smithson, among others. It concludes with new accounts of the institutional and existential complexities of 'art space' and 'art time'."--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-270) and index.
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Table of Contents
The fiction of the contemporary
- Art beyond aesthetics
- Modernisms and mediations
- Transcategoriality: postconceptual art
- Photographic ontology, infinite exchange
- Art space
- Art time.
- Art beyond aesthetics
- Modernisms and mediations
- Transcategoriality: postconceptual art
- Photographic ontology, infinite exchange
- Art space
- Art time.