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Les conceptions dominantes de l'esthétique occidentale contemporaine se montrent tantôt accrochées à l'idée d'un "grand récit", cher aux modernes, tels que vus par les post-modernes, tantôt chevillées à celle d'un émiettement. Elles tendent, de diverses façons, à soumettre les œuvres et leurs propriétés - langage, médium, lieu d'accueil - à des idées ou des systèmes a priori. Parlant de Mallarmé, entre autres, il a été question d'une "révolution du langage poétique" (Kristeva) ou d'une " dissémination" des marques (Derrida). Le présent ouvrage propose, lui, le récit d'un renversement partant de Mallarmé : celui qui, ayant consisté à déduire les œuvres de leur support et de leurs propriétés, continue de se manifester dans les domaines artistiques les plus divers : poésie, roman, arts plastiques, musique, architecture, cinéma. Guy Lelong y montre ainsi, au plus près des œuvres et de leur perception, qu'il est possible d'établir, entre ces différents domaines, une sorte de continuum.
Aesthetics --- Art, Modern --- Art, Modern
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An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism Artists Remake the World introduces readers to the political ambitions of contemporary art in the early twenty-first century and puts forward a new, wide-ranging account of art's political potential. Surveying such innovations as evidence-driven art, socially engaged art, and ecological art, the book explores how artists have attempted to offer bold solutions to the world's problems. Vid Simoniti offers original perspectives on contemporary art and its capacity as a force for political and social change. At its best, he argues, contemporary art allows us to imagine utopias and presents us with hard truths, which mainstream political discourse cannot yet articulate. Covering subjects such as climate change, social justice, and global inequality, Simoniti introduces the reader to a host of visionary contemporary artists from across the globe, including Ai Weiwei, Olafur Eliasson, Wangechi Mutu, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, and Hito Steyerl. Offering a philosophy of contemporary art as an experimental branch of politics, the book equips the reader with a new critical apparatus for thinking about political art today.
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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
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Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.
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L'art contemporain, de par son esthétique spécifique, renvoie notamment à l'art minimaliste et à l'art conceptuel, ainsi qu'à leurs formes respectives d'installations et d'art performance. Usant entre autres de matériaux traditionnels revisités, voire déclassés, il est quelquefois associé à un « anartisme » promu par un « État culturel » et/ou sous l'emprise d'un « art business ». Or ce procès apparaît inapproprié à définir le tout de cet art, dont on ne peut douter à la fois de la vitalité, de la créativité, ainsi que de la beauté. Car, pour peu que l'on fasse référence à l'histoire de l'esthétique, le beau artistique ne se définirait pas comme simple représentation de belles choses, mais davantage comme produit de l'esprit. L'histoire de l'art pourrait alors se targuer de n'avoir pas dit son dernier mot avec l'apparition des arts plastiques et de leur vision élargie des modes, voire des finalités artistiques, dont cet ouvrage a l'ambition de rendre compte.
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"What does 'Art' Mean Now? asks, and answers, fundamental questions about the nature of aesthetic experience and role of the arts in contemporary society. The Modern Age, Romanticism and beyond. viewed art as something transcending and separated from life, and usually something encountered in museums or classrooms. Nowadays, however, art tends to be defined not by a commonly agreed-upon standard of 'quality' or by its forms, such as painting and sculpture, but instead by political and ideological criteria. So how do we connect with the works in museums whose point was precisely they stood apart from such considerations? Can we and should we be educated to "appreciate" art-and what does it do for us anyway? What are we to make of the so-different newer works-installations, performances, excerpts from the world-held to be art that increasingly make it into museums? Adopting a subjectivist approach, this book argues that in the absence of a universal judgement or standard of taste, the experience of art is one of freedom. The arts and literature give us the means to conceptualize our lives, showing us ourselves as we are and as we might wish-or not wish-to be, as well as where we have been and where we are going. It will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, museum studies, and art history, and to anyone interested in, or puzzled by, museums or college courses and their presentation of art today"--
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"Using five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalism. This book considers five artists who exemplify contemporary art practice: Seth Price; Liam Gillick; Martin Creed; Hito Steyerl and Theaster Gates. Given the diversity of materials used in art today, once-traditional artistic mediums and practices have become obsolete in describing what artists do today. Francis Halsall argues that, in the face of this obsolescence, the ideas of system and dispersion become very useful in understanding contemporary art. That is, practitioners now can be seen to be using whatever systems of distribution and display are available to them as their creative mediums. The two central arguments are first that any understanding of what art is will always be underwritten by a related view of what a human being is; and second that these both have a particular character in late capitalism or, as is named here, the Age of Dispersion. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working in art history, contemporary art, studio art, and theories of systems and networks"--
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Le détournement dans le domaine artistique est l'une des modalités de l'appropriation. Objets, images, uvres, références, matériaux, situations, etc., tout peut être détourné. Le détournement peut avoir de multiples déclinaisons et relever par exemple du ludique, de l'ironie, de la critique, du symbolique, du politique. Il peut arriver qu'il apparaisse comme étant de l'ordre de la désacralisation, de la provocation, de la transgression, de la subversion. L'histoire de l'art en fournit de nombreux exemples, en particulier au cours des XXe et XXIe siècles. Les artistes modernes puis contemporains ont exploré de nombreuses pratiques du détournement toutes plus insolites, audacieuses, surprenantes les unes que les autres, constituant autant d'éloges du détournement. Le détournement produit une modification de ce qui est, et propose un écart, un décalage, une nouveauté. Il résulte d'une créativité, d'une inventivité. Il entraîne un changement de l'usage, de la fonction, du contexte, du lieu, de la nature, de l'aspect. Il se manifeste au travers d'une manipulation par exemple d'images, de mots, de choses. Il permet de transformer le sens, de reconfigurer, transfigurer, transformer, changer de statut, opérer des rapprochements insolites, des connexions inattendues d'objets, d'images, de situations. Il ouvre sur de nouveaux horizons artistiques.
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In The Icon and the Square, Maria Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century through a shared interest in the Byzantine past, offering a counternarrative to prevailing notions of Russian modernism.Focusing on the works of four different artists-Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Tatlin-Taroutina shows how engagement with medieval pictorial traditions drove each artist to transform his own practice, pushing beyond the established boundaries of his respective artistic and intellectual milieu. She also contextualizes and complements her study of the work of these artists with an examination of the activities of a number of important cultural associations and institutions over the course of several decades. As a result, The Icon and the Square gives a more complete picture of Russian modernism: one that attends to the dialogue between generations of artists, curators, collectors, critics, and theorists.The Icon and the Square retrieves a neglected but vital history that was deliberately suppressed by the atheist Soviet regime and subsequently ignored in favor of the secular formalism of mainstream modernist criticism. Taroutina's timely study, which coincides with the centennial reassessments of Russian and Soviet modernism, is sure to invigorate conversation among scholars of art history, modernism, and Russian culture.
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