Almost nothing : observations on precarious practices in contemporary art / Anna Dezeuze.
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- Author/Creator:
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- Series:
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This title presents a short history of artworks at risk of passing unnoticed because they look like trash, or are little more than commonplace objects and fleeting gestures that disappear into the fabric of everyday life.
- Contents:
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- Introduction : almost nothing
- Junk aesthetics in a throwaway age
- 'At the point of imperceptibility'
- 'Good-for-nothing'
- Joins in the age of 'liquid modernity'
- Futility and precarity
- Postscript : on the humanism of precarious works.
- Notes:
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- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dezeuze, Anna. Almost nothing.
- ISBN:
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- 1-5261-2071-2
- 1-5261-2349-5
- OCLC:
- 1085642808
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