{"product_id":"nervous-systems-9781478013822","title":"Nervous Systems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eNervous Systems\u003c\/i\u003e reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A vital and much-needed contribution to the literature on art and systems discourse. If the history of art has largely treated systems theory in terms of its technocratic implications in the 1960s, \u003ci\u003eNervous Systems\u003c\/i\u003e expands the field to postwar and contemporary art, addressing race, gender, ecology, and global networks as among its most urgent questions.” -- Pamela M. Lee, author of * Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNervous Systems\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most impressive and conceptually nuanced collections of art historical essays that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. A model of what contemporary arts scholarship can look like, this volume is eminently readable and, most of all, teachable.” -- Jonathan Eburne, author of * Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ Judith Rodenbeck  vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e After the Breakdown: Sixty Years of Systems Art \/ Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott  1\u003cbr\u003e Section I: Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics\u003cbr\u003e 1. Jack Burnham Redux: Reappraising System Aesthetics \/ Luke Skrebowski  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Artist as \"Weatherman\": Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology \/ John Tyson  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Desalineación: Open Systems as Social Transformation in Tucumán Arde \/ Christine Filippone  78\u003cbr\u003e Section II: Nervous Interfaces\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines \/ Kris Cohen  103\u003cbr\u003e 5. Light and Space as Institutional Critique \/ Dawna Schuld  125\u003cbr\u003e 6. One among Many: Experiencing Complexity in Participatory Art Systems \/ Cristina Albu  148\u003cbr\u003e Section III: The Contemporary Art World Described as a System\u003cbr\u003e 7. Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: Liam Gillick's Disappointing Systems \/ Francis Halsall  173\u003cbr\u003e 8. Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: Mel Chin's The Arctic Is . . . \/ Amanda Boetzkes  192\u003cbr\u003e 9. Mapping, \u003ci\u003eSEA STATE\u003c\/i\u003e, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore \/ Brianne Cohen  213\u003cbr\u003e 10. Toward Infrastructure Art: Containerization, Black Box Logistics, and New Distribution Complexes \/ Jaimey Hamilton Faris  235\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography  261\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  277\u003cbr\u003e Index 281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408994345303,"sku":"9781478013822","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013822.jpg?v=1730505009","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nervous-systems-9781478013822","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}