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An in-depth examination of the use of the car, the driver, and the road in a variety of forms of creative expression, ranging from works by Robert Rauschenberg and Martha Rosler to those of Dan Graham, John Cage, and Dennis Hopper.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Conceptual Car Art: Rethinking Conceptualism through Technology
  • Chapter 2. Mobile Perception and the Automotive Prosthetic: Photoconceptualism, the Car, and Urban Space
  • Chapter 3. The Nows of the Automotive Prosthetic: Moving Images, Time, and the Car
  • Chapter 4. Communication Space: Automotive Urbanism in Dan Graham's Work
  • Chapter 5. Hummer: The Cultural Militarism of Art Based on the SUV
  • Chapter 6. Richard Prince: The Fetish and Automotive Maleficium
  • Conclusion: The "Freedom" of Automotive Existence
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Automotive Prosthetic

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 15/01/2014
      ISBN13: 9781477302248, 978-1477302248
      ISBN10: 1477302247
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An in-depth examination of the use of the car, the driver, and the road in a variety of forms of creative expression, ranging from works by Robert Rauschenberg and Martha Rosler to those of Dan Graham, John Cage, and Dennis Hopper.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1. Conceptual Car Art: Rethinking Conceptualism through Technology
      • Chapter 2. Mobile Perception and the Automotive Prosthetic: Photoconceptualism, the Car, and Urban Space
      • Chapter 3. The Nows of the Automotive Prosthetic: Moving Images, Time, and the Car
      • Chapter 4. Communication Space: Automotive Urbanism in Dan Graham's Work
      • Chapter 5. Hummer: The Cultural Militarism of Art Based on the SUV
      • Chapter 6. Richard Prince: The Fetish and Automotive Maleficium
      • Conclusion: The "Freedom" of Automotive Existence
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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