Midnight : the tempest essays / Molly Nesbit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nesbit, Molly, 1952- author.

Series:

Nesbit, Molly, 1952- . Pre-occupations ; 2.

Pre-occupations ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

295 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

New York, NY : Distributed by Artbook D.A.P.

Other Title:

Tempest essays

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Inventory Press, [2017]

Summary:

Midnight: The Tempest Essays, the second book in Molly Nesbit's 'Pre-Occupations' series, returns the question of pragmatism to the everyday critical practice of the art historian working in the late 20th century. These essays take their cues from the work of specific artists and writers, beginning in the late 1960s, a time when critical commentary found itself in a political and philosophical crisis. Illustrated case studies on Eugène Atget, Marcel Duchamp, Jean-Luc Godard, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Rachel Whiteread, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Nancy Spero, Rem Koolhaas, Martha Rosler, Gerhard Richter, Matthew Barney and Richard Serra, among others, continue the legacy of a pragmatism that has endured while debates over postmodernism and French philosophy raged.

Contents:

What was an author?

The copy

In the absence of the Parisienne

History without object

Without walls

The immigrant

The tempest

The port of calls.

ISBN:

9781941753149

1941753140

OCLC:

964506052