Art, history, and anachronic interventions since 1990 / Eva Kernbauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kernbauer, Eva, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in art historiography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and history.

History in art.

Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Themes, motives.

Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

x, 249 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history. Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Walid Raad, Dierk Schmidt, Erika Tan, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions since 1990 undertakes a thorough methodological reexamination of the contribution of art to history writing and to its theoretical foundations. The analytical instrument of anachrony comes to the fore as an experimental method, as will (para)fiction, counterfactual history, testimonies, ghosts and spectres of the past, utopia, and the "juridification" of history. Eva Kernbauer argues that contemporary art-developing its own conceptual approaches to temporality and to historical research-offers fruitful strategies for creating historical consciousness and perspectives for political agency. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, historiography, and contemporary art"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Art and History in a Time out of Joint

The Historiographic Turn in Contemporary Art

Shared Contemporaneity in the Global Present

1. Art As Historiography

Depicting History

Understanding History

Performing History

Creating History

2. Ready for History: The Explosion of the Documentary

History, Now: Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Videograms of a Revolution (1992)

3. The Crux of Authorship

The "I" in History: Tacita Dean

History by Proxy: Erika Tan and/or Halimah

Geography, History, Language: Dialogue and Diglossia in Bouchra Khalili's Foreign Office (2015)

4. Archiving, Recording

Nothing to See Here: Walid Raad and the Negative Documents of The Atlas Group

The Archive in Excess: Matthew Buckingham

At the Bottom of History: Dierk Schmidt, SIEV-X

-On a Case of Intensified Refugee Politics (2001

2005)

5. Showing, Telling, Picturing

Gathering Evidence: Amar Kanwar, The Lightning Testimonies (2007)

I Will Always Be Here: Zarina Bhimji's Out of Blue (2002) and Yellow Patch (2011)

Trapped in Narration: Omer Fast, Nostalgia (2009)

6. Performing

History on Stage: Wendelien van Oldenborgh's Maurits Script (2006), Instruction (2009), and Cinema Olanda (2017)

The Medium Film: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Primitive (2009)

7. Counterfactual History, Parafiction, and the Critical Ends of Utopia

Sensing Possibility, Sensing Probability: Michael Blum's A Tribute to Safiye Behar (2005)

History in Reverse: Yael Bartana's And Europe Will Be Stunned (2007-11)

8. Testing Truth: Tribunal, Script, Trial

History as Trial: Andrea Geyer, Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb (2009)

History as Script: Philippe Parreno and Liam Gillick, The Trial of Pol Pot (1998)

Truth Distorted in Perspective: Hiwa K, View from Above (2017)

9. Anachronism and Anachrony

Real and Existing Anachronism: Deimantas Narkevicius's His-story (1998), Once in the XX Century (2004), The Head (2007), and Into the Unknown (2009)

Kader Attia, The Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures (2012)

10. No End of History: Art and History in the Anthropocene.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Kernbauer, Eva. Art, history, and anachronic interventions since 1990

ISBN:

9780367763251

0367763257

9780367763268

0367763265

OCLC:

1250431468