Choice Reviews Online· 2012
The one and the many: contemporary collaborative art in a global context
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Short summary
This book explores how contemporary collaborative art practices challenge traditional notions of artistic authorship and engagement within a globalized world.
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Key points
- Contemporary collaborative art shifts focus from individual artistic genius to collective creation and engagement.
- Practices like Park Fiction and Project Row Houses demonstrate art's role in addressing urban space and social issues.
- The book analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of collaboration, including post-structuralist thought and the concept of relational antagonism.
- Collaborative art redefines the 'public' and the nature of aesthetic experience in a global context.
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Abstract
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Semantics of Collaboration 2. Art Practice and the Intellectual Baroque Chapter 1: Autonomy, Antagonism, and the Aesthetic 19 1. From Text to Action 2. Park Fiction, Ala Plastica, and Dialogue 3. Relational Antagonism 4. The Risk of Diversity 5. Programmatic Multiplicity 6. Art Theory and the Post-structuralist Canon Chapter Two: The Genius of the Place 67 1. Lessons in Futility 2. Enclosure Acts 3. The Twelfth Seat and the Mirrored Ceiling 4. The Atelier as Workshop 5. Labor, Praxis, and Representation 6. The Divided and Incomplete Subject of Yesterday 7. Memories of Development 8. The Limits of Ethical Capitalism 9. The Art of the Locality Chapter Three: Eminent Domain: Art and Urban Space 155 1. Blindness and Insight 2. The Invention of the Public 3. The Boulevards of the Inner City 4. Park Fiction: Desire, Resistance, and Complicity 5. A Culture of Needles: Project Row Houses in Houston Notes 229 References 281 Index 295
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Field: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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