Abstract Resistance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935640959 ISBN 13: 9780935640953

Verlag: Walker Postscript/Walker Art Center, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Abstract Resistance considers the metaphor of resistance as a political and compositional force defining the art of the past half-century. Starting with Michel Foucault's assertion that "where there is power, there is resistance," it explores art made since World War II that has been shaped by traumatic historical events in complex ways. Rather than creating an explicit art of social protest, artists have responded to violence and upheaval with art that rejects the comfort of moral certainty. Such art withholds information and evades identification. Exhibition curator Yasmil Raymond provides an overview of the exhibition's themes and artworks; art historian Simon Baier traces the origins and development of nonobjective art through the writings of critics such as Charles Baudelaire and Meyer Schapiro; and philosopher Marcus Steinweg draws on the ideas of Theodor Adorno and others to provide a theoretical framework for artistic resistance.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Walker Postscript/Walker Art Center
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0935640959
• ISBN 13: 9780935640953
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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