Disordered Attention
How We Look at Art and Performance Today
Published on 11. June 2024
272 pages
978-1-80429-290-7 (ISBN)
Description
The reception of art and performance is changing. Smartphones and social media have troubled the old model of individual appreciation and close looking, giving rise to new forms of mediated perception, such as sampling, skimming and scrolling. Charting recent trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - leading art critic Claire Bishop challenges the assumption that fully focused attention is automatically good and distraction necessarily bad.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
46 integrated black & white images
ISBN-13
978-1-80429-290-7 (9781804292907)
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06/2024
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Person
Claire Bishop is a Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Installation Art: A Critical History and the award winning, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: OS XXI, Disordering Attention
- 1. Information Overload: Research-Based Art
- 2. Black Box, White Cube, Grey Zone: Performance Exhibitions and Hybrid Spectatorship
- 3. Seizing the Moment: Interventions
- 4. Déjà Vu: Invoking Modernist Architecture and Design
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index
