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Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art / edited by Katherine Guinness and Charlotte Kent.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Absurd (Philosophy) in art.
- Art, Modern--21st century.
- Art, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (986 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2024]
- Summary:
- An edited collection consisting of essays and artworks by distinguished and emerging theorists, artists, and scholars. It explains how our contemporary moment is absurd and how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary.35 b&w illus.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Anatomical Bitransversal Symmetry Axiswerks: Inter-orificial Economics of Evolutionary Body Plan Development
- 2. Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape: Revised and Redacted
- 3. Landscape Fictions and Future Realities
- 4. Why I Should Learn From Our Masters!
- 5. The Absurd Isn’t It Ironic? A Vestigial Tale: ‘Vestigial Tale’ About 6740 Google results
- 6. The Absurd and an Agonistic Opportunity
- 7. Eight Variants of Tactical Absurdity in (Post)Conceptual Art: An Overperformance of Typological Exactitude
- 8. The Weird and the Absurd
- 9. Absurd Temporalities
- 10. Reflections on Camus’s Absurd
- 11. Feeling is Funny
- 12. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Amy Coney Barrett Cross-Examined Absurdly by the Medusan French Feminist Philosopher Hélène Cixous
- 13. From Planetary Core to the High Seas
- 14. Exulting in the Ab-surd: Artaud to Arp
- Appendix: The Janks Archive
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover Generated by AI.
- Notes:
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- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781789389081
- 1789389089
- 9781789389074
- 1789389070
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