Intangibilities of Form - Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade

Informationen zum Autor John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday ; The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech), Philosophizing the Everyday , and The Necessity of Errors . He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy , Oxford Art Journal , Historical Materialism , Third Text , and Cabinet magazine. He lives in London. Klappentext A rich and groundbreaking study of conceptual art, from Duchamp to Warhol, and its relationship to capitalism. Zusammenfassung Many people who look at art decry it for the lack of craft skill in its production! whether it be painting! photography or sculpture. This work sheds light on this obsolescence of traditional craft skills in contemporary art! exploring the technological and social developments that gave rise to those postmodern theories.

Product details

• Authors: John Roberts
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2007
• EAN: 9781844671670
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-167-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, 20th Century, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960