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Informationen zum Autor Zoya Kocur is an independent scholar based in New York. She has taught at New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is the former Associate Curator of Education at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Her publications include Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology (2011) and, as co-editor, Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (1996). Simon Leung is an artist based in New York and Los Angeles, and Professor of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine, where he heads the New Genres area. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, and the Guangzhou Triennial. Klappentext Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and art reproductions to capture the vibrancy and dissonance that define today's art scene.* Incorporates new and updated topics that have become central to art theory and practice over the past decade* New and updated chapters cover such topics as: international biennials, historicizing of the term "contemporary art", aesthetics, art and politics, feminism and pornography, ecology and art, the Middle East and conflict studies, Eastern European art and politics, gender and war, and technology* Features a thematic reconfiguration of sections and new introductions to make readings user-friendly* Extensively illustrated throughout with an expanded color-plate section* New contributions to this edition include those by Alexander Alberro, Claire Bishop, T.J. Demos, Anthony Downey, Liam Gillick, Marina Gr?iniæ, Mary Kelly, Chantal Mouffe, Beatriz Preciado, Jacques Ranciere, Blake Stimson, and Chin-Tao Wu. Zusammenfassung An updated edition of the hugely successful original anthology that captures the essence and the edge of the contemporary art scene. Inhaltsverzeichnis Text, Figure, and Plate Credits viii How To Use this Book xvi Notes on Contributors xix Introduction 1 Part I The Field of Contemporary Art 7 1 The Intellectual Field: A World Apart (1990) 13 Pierre Bourdieu 2 When Form Has Become Attitude - And Beyond (1994) 21 Thierry de Duve 3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997) 34 Miwon Kwon 4 Biennials without Borders? (2009) 56 Chin-Tao Wu 5 Periodising Contemporary Art (2009) 64 Alexander Alberro 6 Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics (2009) 72 Jacques Rancière Part II Practices and Models/Rethinking Form and Medium 87 7 A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 (1989) 94 Benjamin H. D. Buchloh 8 Notes on Surface: Toward a Genealogy of Flatness (2000) 102 David Joselit 9 Informe without Conclusion (1996) 118 Rosalind Krauss 10 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens 131 Liz Kotz 11 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994) 146 Andrea Fraser 12 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art (2003) 153 Grant Kester 13 Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics (2004) 166 Claire Bishop Part III Culture/Identities/Political Agency 195 14 The War on Culture (1990) 203 Carole S. Vance 15 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (2002) 211 Douglas Crimp 16 Architecture of the Evicted (1990) 220 Rosalyn Deutsche 17 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (1993) 235 Judith Butler 18 Looking for Trouble (1993) 252 Kobena Mercer 19 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar...
