From Diversion to Subversion

Informationen zum Autor David J. Getsy is Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Chair in Art History and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Klappentext Games and play occupied a central, if misunderstood, role in modern art in the twentieth century. Many art-historical narratives have downplayed the ways in which artists returned to play and to games as analogues to art practice, as metaphors for creativity, or as models for art criticism. The essays collected in this volume investigate the fundamental importance of supposedly nonserious activity and attend to the ways in which artists used play and games in order to reconsider their practice and to expand their critical strategies. With subjects ranging from early-twentieth-century manifestations of games and play in Surrealism, Duchamp, Picasso, and Bauhaus photography to their repercussions in Fluxus, performance, public practice, and new media, these essays establish the diversity and potential of games and play and point toward an alternate trajectory in the development of modern art. Zusammenfassung Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century.

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• Authors: David J Getsy, David J. Getsy
• Assisted by: David J. Getsy (Editor), David J. (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Getsy (Editor), Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History David J (Art Institute of Chicago) Getsy (Editor), Getsy David J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780271037035
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03703-5
• Series: Refiguring Modernism; Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art