Time to play : action and interaction in contempororary art / Katarzyna Zimna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimna, Katarzyna, author.

Series:

International library of modern and contemporary art.

International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modern art.

Play.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I. B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

'Play art' or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing them active participation. The work of 'play' artists - from Carsten Höller's 'Test Site' at the Tate Modern to Gabriel Orozco's 'Ping Pond Table' - must be touched, influenced and experienced; the gallery-goer is no longer a spectator but a co-creator. Time to Play explores the role of play as a central but neglected concept in aesthetics and a model for ground-breaking modern and postmodern experiments which have tended to blur the boundary between art and life. Moving freely between disciplines, Katarzyna Zimna links the theory and history of 20th and 21st century art with ideas developed within play, game and leisure studies, and the philosophical theories of Kant, Gadamer and Derrida, to critically engage with current discussion on the role of the artist, viewers, curators and their spaces of encounter.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Modern Perspectives on Play

2. Play is a Movement in between the Opposites

3. Play : From Modern Strategy to Post-modern Tactic

4. The Turn to Play

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780755603473

0755603478

9780857728456

0857728458

9780857736253

0857736256

OCLC:

1128158203