Crisis As Form

Criticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely neglected on both sides. These essays combine a re-examination of the terms of judgement of contemporary art with critical interpretations of individual works and exhibitions by Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp, Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof and Cady Noland. The book moves from philosophical issues, via the lingering shadows of medium-specificity (in photography and art music), and the changing states of museums, to analyses of the peculiar ways that works of art relate to time.To give artistic form to crisis, it is suggested, one needs to understand contemporary art's own constitutive crisis of form.

About the author

Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. He is a long-serving member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time, Philosophy in Cultural Theory, Conceptual Art and Marx.

Summary

How does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of form

Report

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Product details

• Authors: Peter Osborne
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781839763625
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-362-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Art & Politics, ART / Popular Culture, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism