Crisis as form / Peter Osborne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osborne, Peter, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.

Art, Modern.

Art, Modern--21st century--Philosophy.

Art criticism.

art criticism.

Art, Modern--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2022.

Summary:

"Contemporary art criticism is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, subterranean terms of art-judgement are largely neglected on both sides of the debate. These essays combine a re-examination of the terms of judgment used in contemporary art with critical interpretations of individual works and exhibitions, touching on Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp, Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof, and Cady Noland"-- Provided by publisher.

Contemporary art criticism is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, subterranean terms of art-judgement are largely neglected on both sides of the debate. These essays combine a re-examination of the terms of judgement used in contemporary art with critical interpretations of individual works and exhibitions by Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp, Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof and Cady Noland. The book moves from philosophical issues, via the lingering shadows of medium-specificity and the changing state of museums, to analysing the peculiar ways that works of art relate to time. To give artistic form to crisis, it is suggested, one needs to understand contemporary art's own constitutive crisis of form--back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I History as a Project of Crisis

1. Working the Contemporary: History as a Project of Crisis Today

2. Crisis as Form

pt. II Mediality and Mediations

3. Stilling the Flow? Temporality and Digitality in the Photographic Image

4. Musical Negations, Negations of Music

5. The Agent of a Secret Discontent: Discourses of Art, Discourses of the World

pt. III Museums of Art

6. Illusions of Totality: Global Contemporaneity and the Condition of the Museum

7. Contemporizing the Classical/Classicizing the Contemporary

pt. IV Suspending Time

8. Occasionalism: Marias Faldbakken, Shocked into Abstraction

9. Happy Anachronism: Luis Camnitzer, Conceptual Art and Politics

10. The Obviousness and Opaqueness of the `80s: Cady Noland's Dirty Minimalism, Squeaky Clean

11. Objects, Signs and Time: Marcel Duchamp and the Temporalization and Detemporalization of Objects as Art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Osborne, Peter, 1958- Crisis as form

ISBN:

9781839763625

1839763620

OCLC:

1291310253