Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art

Introduction: Beside Ourselves



(Cristina Albu and Dawna Schuld)



Part I: Phenomenal Worlds



1. Michael Fried, Robert Morris, and the Early and Late Writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty



(Robert Hobbs)



2.Art World, Life World. Robert Irwin and the Aesthetic Influence of Alfred Schutz



(James Merle Thomas)



3. Wave of the Future? Reconsidering the Neuroscientific Turn in Art History



(Kate Mondloch)



Part II: Disruption in Transmission: Staging Spontaneity



4. Perceptual Contrast and Social Tension in Allan Kaprow's Push and Pull - A Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann



(Emily Ruth Capper)



5. Analogue Exchanges: Communication Technologies, Surveillance and Selfhood in Roy Ascott's Pedagogy



(Kate Sloan)



6. Indexical Proof: Post-studio Intersections of Earthrise and John Baldessari's California Map Project



(Ginger Elliott Smith)



Part III: Double Vision: Multi-Focal Lenses



7. Seeing in Stereo: Robert Smithson's Enantiomorphic Chambers



(Sienna Brown)



8. Double Looking: The Point of View and the Political Sublime in Contemporary Art



(Kit Messham-Muir)



9. Global and Local Multistability in Contemporary Art



(Gregory Minissale)



Part IV: The Aesthetics of Social Space



10. National Vision: Venezuelan Cinetismo and the Phenomenal Framework of Democracy



(Juan Ledezma)



11. Gerard Fromanger's Souffles and the Politics of Phenomenal Art



(Sami Siegelbaum)



12. There's No Accounting for Taste: Eating, Thinking and Debating in Contemporary Art



(Sabine Flach)



Part V: The Accretion of Attention

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