Objections: Forms of Abstraction (1) - Softcover

Lutticken, Sven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 395679530X ISBN 13: 9783956795305

Verlag: Sternberg Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

The object as obstacle or obstruction, and of the artwork as an aesthetic and political objection.

Forms of Abstraction engages with abstraction not as a formal option in art, or as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has redesigned our world, and continues to do so. What Alfred Sohn-Rethel has called the “real abstraction” of value-form molds the world, and does so in conjunction with the real abstractions of the law and of technoscience.

In this first volume, Objections, Sven Lütticken takes his cue from the Latin root of object, obiectum—which refers to something put before the subject, something thrown in one's way—pursuing this sense of the object as obstacle or obstruction, and of the artwork as an aesthetic and political objection. Lütticken sees artists engaging with materiality and value, with subatomic particles and radiation as well as with the objectification of human and nonhuman organisms. Along the way, we encounter theoretical objects such as the fetish, the plaster cast, the patented bacteria, the buried radioactive container, and the contemporary artwork itself. Lütticken analyzes contemporary art as a set of aesthetic practices revolving around problematic and questionable objects that can act as productive objections.

Among the artists discussed are Agency, Kader Attia, Stanley Brouwn, Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki, Andrea Fraser, Hans Haacke, Carsten Höller and Rosemarie Trockel, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Sean Snyder, and Jonas Staal.

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Sven Lütticken, an art historian and critic, teaches at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is the author of Cultural Revolution: Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy (Sternberg Press) and other books.

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• Verlag: Sternberg Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 395679530X
• ISBN 13: 9783956795305
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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