Description: Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art
If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, “it is the function of artistic form … to make historical content into a philosophical truth” then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Contemporary art makes this work more difficult than ever. Today’s art is a point of condensation for a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms, and technologies of image production. Contemporary art, Osborne maintains, expresses this condition through its distinctively postconceptual form. These essays—extending the scope and arguments of Osborne’s Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art—move from a philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the changing shape of art institutions, to interpretation and analysis of particular works by Akram Zaatari, Xavier Le Roy and Ilya Kabakov, and the postconceptual situation of a crisis-ridden New Music.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Postconceptual Condition : Critical Essays
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Topic: Conceptual, Criticism & Theory, Criticism, Movements / Critical Theory, History / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2018
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Philosophy
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Author: Peter Osborne
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
