Retroactivity and Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2018
224 pages
978-1-350-00999-8 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered. Through specific case studies of artists who strategically work with historical moments, this book examines how art from the last two decades has sought to mobilize these particular histories, and to what effect, against the backdrop of Modernism.
Drawing on the art theory of Rosalind Krauss and the philosophies of Paul Ricoeur, Gerhard Richter, and Pierre Nora, Retroactivity and Contemporary Art interprets those works that foreground some aspect of retroactivity - whether re-enacting, commemorating, or re-imagining - as key artistic strategies.
This book is striking philosophical reflection on time within art and art within time, and an indispensable read for those attempting to understand the artistic significance of history, materiality, and memory.
Drawing on the art theory of Rosalind Krauss and the philosophies of Paul Ricoeur, Gerhard Richter, and Pierre Nora, Retroactivity and Contemporary Art interprets those works that foreground some aspect of retroactivity - whether re-enacting, commemorating, or re-imagining - as key artistic strategies.
This book is striking philosophical reflection on time within art and art within time, and an indispensable read for those attempting to understand the artistic significance of history, materiality, and memory.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-00999-8 (9781350009998)
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Craig Staff
Retroactivity and Contemporary Art
Book
10/2019
Bloomsbury Academic
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Craig Staff is Reader in Fine Art at The University of Northampton, UK. He is the author of Modernist Painting and Materiality (2011), After Modernist Painting: The History of a Contemporary Practice (2013) and Monochrome: Darkness and Light in Contemporary Art (2015).
Content
Introduction
Part 1
1 Modernism in Ruins
Part 2
2 Index (Tracing)
3 The Reality of Ends
Part 3
4 When, Even If
5 Still There, Waiting (Retracing)
Bibliography
Index
Part 1
1 Modernism in Ruins
Part 2
2 Index (Tracing)
3 The Reality of Ends
Part 3
4 When, Even If
5 Still There, Waiting (Retracing)
Bibliography
Index
