Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures - Tainted Goods

List of contents

Introduction 1. Rachel Harrison: "Consider the Lobster" 2. Isa Genzken: "OIL" 3. Geoffrey Farmer: "Me into Many" 4. Liz Magor: "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" Conclusion

About the author

Dan Adler is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at York University in Toronto.

Summary

In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials – often things left on the side of the road – and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity.

Additional text

"This bookis an argument for paying more attention to the material conditions of sculpture—not as a return to formalism, but as a powerful and necessary tool to cut through the lingo of installation art and the capaciousness of digital culture."

- Gloria Sutton, Northeastern University Art

Product details

• Authors: Asst Prof. Daniel (York University) Adler, Dan Adler, Dan (York University) Adler, Daniel Adler, Adler Dan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138479623
• ISBN: 978-1-138-47962-3
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies; Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; ART / General, ART / History / General, ART / Museum Studies, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, ART / Business Aspects, ART / Techniques / Sculpting, sculpture, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies