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Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and art reproductions to capture the vibrancy and dissonance that define today's art scene.

  • Incorporates new and updated topics that have become central to art theory and practice over the past decade
  • New and updated chapters cover such topics as: international biennials, historicizing of the term contemporary art, aesthetics, art and politics, feminism and pornography, ecology and art, the Middle East and conflict studies, Eastern European art and politics, gender and war, and technology
  • Features a thematic reconfiguration of sections and new introductions to make readings userfriendly
  • Extensively illustrated throughout with an expanded color-plate section
  • New contributions

    Table of Contents

    Text, Figure, and Plate Credits viii

    How To Use this Book xvi

    Notes on Contributors xix

    Introduction 1

    Part I The Field of Contemporary Art 7

    1 The Intellectual Field: A World Apart (1990) 13
    Pierre Bourdieu

    2 When Form Has Become Attitude – And Beyond (1994) 21
    Thierry de Duve

    3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997) 34
    Miwon Kwon

    4 Biennials without Borders? (2009) 56
    Chin-Tao Wu

    5 Periodising Contemporary Art (2009) 64
    Alexander Alberro

    6 Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics (2009) 72
    Jacques Rancière

    Part II Practices and Models/Rethinking Form and Medium 87

    7 A Note on Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 (1989) 94
    Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

    8 Notes on Surface: Toward a Genealogy of Flatness (2000) 102
    David Joselit

    9 Informe without Conclusion (1996) 118
    Rosalind Krauss

    10 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens 131
    Liz Kotz

    11 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994) 146
    Andrea Fraser

    12 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art (2003) 153
    Grant Kester

    13 Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics (2004) 166
    Claire Bishop

    Part III Culture/Identities/Political Agency 195

    14 The War on Culture (1990) 203
    Carole S. Vance

    15 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (2002) 211
    Douglas Crimp

    16 Architecture of the Evicted (1990) 220
    Rosalyn Deutsche

    17 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (1993) 235
    Judith Butler

    18 Looking for Trouble (1993) 252
    Kobena Mercer

    19 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993) 263
    Charles A. Wright, Jr

    20 Haunted TV (1992) 280
    Avital Ronell

    21 The Architecture of Porn: Museum, Urban Detritus, and Cinematic Stag-rooms (2012) 289
    Beatriz Preciado

    22 Cultural Workers as Organic Intellectuals (2008) 299
    Chantal Mouffe

    Part IV Postcolonial Critiques 309

    23 The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism (1993) 314
    Gerardo Mosquera

    24 In the “Heart of Darkness” (1993) 322
    Olu Oguibe

    25 The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism (1996) 329
    Jean Fisher

    26 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle: Or, the Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World (2004) 338
    Lee Weng Choy

    27 All-Owning Spectatorship (1991) 354
    Trinh T. Minh-Ha

    28 Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern (1998) 371
    Wu Hung

    Part V Art Subjects/Historical Subjects 381

    29 Re-politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology (2008) 388
    Marina Gržinić

    30 Miming the Master: Boy-Things, Bad Girls, and Femmes Vitales (1996) 395
    Mary Kelly

    31 Zones of Indistinction: Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Bare Life’ and the Politics of Aesthetics (2009) 416
    Anthony Downey

    32 The Database (2001) 435
    Lev Manovich

    33 For the Love of Abstraction (2008) 455
    Blake Stimson

    34 The Politics of Sustainability: Art and Ecology (2009) 466
    T. J. Demos

    Appendix: Letters and Responses Contingent Factors: A Response to Claire Bishop’s “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” 486
    Liam Gillick

    Index 498

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 10/08/2012
      ISBN13: 9781444338577, 978-1444338577
      ISBN10: 1444338579
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and art reproductions to capture the vibrancy and dissonance that define today's art scene.

      • Incorporates new and updated topics that have become central to art theory and practice over the past decade
      • New and updated chapters cover such topics as: international biennials, historicizing of the term contemporary art, aesthetics, art and politics, feminism and pornography, ecology and art, the Middle East and conflict studies, Eastern European art and politics, gender and war, and technology
      • Features a thematic reconfiguration of sections and new introductions to make readings userfriendly
      • Extensively illustrated throughout with an expanded color-plate section
      • New contributions

        Table of Contents

        Text, Figure, and Plate Credits viii

        How To Use this Book xvi

        Notes on Contributors xix

        Introduction 1

        Part I The Field of Contemporary Art 7

        1 The Intellectual Field: A World Apart (1990) 13
        Pierre Bourdieu

        2 When Form Has Become Attitude – And Beyond (1994) 21
        Thierry de Duve

        3 One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity (1997) 34
        Miwon Kwon

        4 Biennials without Borders? (2009) 56
        Chin-Tao Wu

        5 Periodising Contemporary Art (2009) 64
        Alexander Alberro

        6 Contemporary Art and the Politics of Aesthetics (2009) 72
        Jacques Rancière

        Part II Practices and Models/Rethinking Form and Medium 87

        7 A Note on Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 (1989) 94
        Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

        8 Notes on Surface: Toward a Genealogy of Flatness (2000) 102
        David Joselit

        9 Informe without Conclusion (1996) 118
        Rosalind Krauss

        10 Video Projection: The Space Between Screens 131
        Liz Kotz

        11 How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994) 146
        Andrea Fraser

        12 Conversation Pieces: The Role of Dialogue in Socially-Engaged Art (2003) 153
        Grant Kester

        13 Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics (2004) 166
        Claire Bishop

        Part III Culture/Identities/Political Agency 195

        14 The War on Culture (1990) 203
        Carole S. Vance

        15 AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism (2002) 211
        Douglas Crimp

        16 Architecture of the Evicted (1990) 220
        Rosalyn Deutsche

        17 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (1993) 235
        Judith Butler

        18 Looking for Trouble (1993) 252
        Kobena Mercer

        19 The Mythology of Difference: Vulgar Identity Politics at the Whitney Biennial (1993) 263
        Charles A. Wright, Jr

        20 Haunted TV (1992) 280
        Avital Ronell

        21 The Architecture of Porn: Museum, Urban Detritus, and Cinematic Stag-rooms (2012) 289
        Beatriz Preciado

        22 Cultural Workers as Organic Intellectuals (2008) 299
        Chantal Mouffe

        Part IV Postcolonial Critiques 309

        23 The Marco Polo Syndrome: Some Problems around Art and Eurocentrism (1993) 314
        Gerardo Mosquera

        24 In the “Heart of Darkness” (1993) 322
        Olu Oguibe

        25 The Syncretic Turn: Cross-Cultural Practices in the Age of Multiculturalism (1996) 329
        Jean Fisher

        26 Authenticity, Reflexivity, and Spectacle: Or, the Rise of New Asia is not the End of the World (2004) 338
        Lee Weng Choy

        27 All-Owning Spectatorship (1991) 354
        Trinh T. Minh-Ha

        28 Ruins, Fragmentation, and the Chinese Modern/Postmodern (1998) 371
        Wu Hung

        Part V Art Subjects/Historical Subjects 381

        29 Re-politicizing Art, Theory, Representation and New Media Technology (2008) 388
        Marina Gržinić

        30 Miming the Master: Boy-Things, Bad Girls, and Femmes Vitales (1996) 395
        Mary Kelly

        31 Zones of Indistinction: Giorgio Agamben’s ‘Bare Life’ and the Politics of Aesthetics (2009) 416
        Anthony Downey

        32 The Database (2001) 435
        Lev Manovich

        33 For the Love of Abstraction (2008) 455
        Blake Stimson

        34 The Politics of Sustainability: Art and Ecology (2009) 466
        T. J. Demos

        Appendix: Letters and Responses Contingent Factors: A Response to Claire Bishop’s “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” 486
        Liam Gillick

        Index 498

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