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Discussions of the object as a key to understanding central aspects of modern and contemporary art. 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.

art criticism --- performance art --- assemblages [sculpture] --- found objects --- theme --- philosophy of art --- kunstbeschouwing --- sculpture [visual work] --- thema's in de kunst --- Art --- Object (Aesthetics) --- kunst --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Wurm Erwin --- Watier Eric --- Tuerlinckx Joëlle --- Szapocznikow Alina --- Strau Josef --- Song Dong --- Snelson Kenneth --- Schneider Gregor --- Samb Issa --- Pisano Falke --- Piper Adrian --- Palmer Katrina --- Orozco Gabriel --- Oiticica Hélio --- Metzger Gustav --- McCollum Allan --- Levine Sherrie --- Latham John --- Kelley Mike --- Hesse Eva --- Gruppe Geflecht --- Genzken Isa --- General idea --- Weiss David --- Fischli Peter --- Durham Jimmie --- Collier Brian D. --- 7.038/039 --- 7.01 --- Closky Claude --- Clark Lygia --- Broodthaers Marcel --- Bourgeois Louise --- Baxter Iain --- Art in ruins --- Absalon --- objecten --- objet trouvé --- kunsttheorie --- Aesthetics, European --- Art, theory --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- sculpture [visual works] --- Kunsttheorie ; kunst en object --- Objectkunst --- Objet trouvé --- Appropriaton Art --- Object (Aesthetics). --- Collier Brian D --- Aesthetic object --- Aesthetics --- Iconographie --- Art contemporain --- Processus de création --- Création artistique --- Objet usuel --- Objet d'art --- Objet symbolique --- Performance --- Kunst --- beeldhouwwerken [beeldmateriaal] --- assemblages [beeldhouwwerken] --- performances [live] --- kunstkritiek --- thema --- kunstfilosofie --- Art conceptuel --- Rythme --- Simulation --- Processus de conception --- Modélisation