The Object

Anon. The Object. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; London, England: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2014.

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Abstract (English)

"Artists increasingly refer to “post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on “object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the “objectness" of production, with art as its focus. Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the object’s transition from inert mass to tool or artifact; and the meanings of the everyday in the found object, repetition in the replicated or multiple object, loss in the absent object, and abjection in the formless or degraded object. It also explores artistic positions that are anti-object; theories of the experimental, liminal or mental object; and the role of objects in performance. The object becomes a prism through which to reread contemporary art and better understand its recent past" -- Publisher's web site.

Types:	Anthologies, essays, collections
All Contributors:	Hudek, Anthony (Editor)
Dossier:	381 - GRANDE-BRETAGNE - WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY (Londres)
Collation:	239 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9780262525763
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; London, England: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Keywords:	OBJECT; EVERYDAY OBJECT; FOUND OBJECT; OBJECTHOOD; SCULPTURE
Copyright Statement:	Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited, the authors or the estates of the authors unless otherwise stated.
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Series Name:	Documents of Contemporary Art
Deposited by:	Users 6 not found.
Date Deposited:	02 May 2014 22:28
Last Modified:	14 May 2014 20:36
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/24678

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