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The postconceptual condition : critical essays, Peter Osborne

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  • "Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form
  • "If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form ... to make historical content into a philosophical truth," then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Never has this been more necessary or more difficult than with respect to contemporary art. Contemporary art is a point of condensation of a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms and technologies of image production. Contemporary art expresses this condition, Osborne maintains, through its distinctively postconceptual form. These essays--extending the scope and arguments of Osborne's Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art--move from philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the changing shape of art institutions, to interpretation and analysis of particular works by Akram Zataari, Xavier Le Roy and Ilya Kabakov, and the postconceptual situation of a crisis-ridden New Music"--
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xi, 223 pages
Contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. Time of the present. The postconceptual condition: Or, the cultural logic of high capitalism today
  • Global modernity and the contemporary: Two categories of the philosophy of historical time
  • Temporalization as transcendental aesthetics: Avant-garde, modern, contemporary
  • Part II. Art and politics. Theorem 4. Autonomy: Can it be true of art and politics at the same time?
  • Disguised as a dog: Cynical occupy?
  • Part III. Institutions. October and the problem of formalism
  • Existential urgency: Contemporaneity, biennials and social form
  • Archive as afterlife and life of art
  • Part IV. Art and image. The distributed image
  • Information, story, image: Akram Zaatari's historical constructivism
  • Dialectical ontology of art: Xavier Le Roy's Retrospective in/as contemporary art
  • The Kabakov effect: 'Moscow conceptualism' in the history of contemporary art
  • The terminology is in crisis: Postconceptual art and new music
  • The image is the subject: Once more on the temporalities of image and act
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9781786634207
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The postconceptual condition : critical essays
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The postconceptual condition
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critical essays
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Peter Osborne
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form
  • "If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form ... to make historical content into a philosophical truth," then it is the function of criticism to recover and to complete that truth. Never has this been more necessary or more difficult than with respect to contemporary art. Contemporary art is a point of condensation of a vast array of social and historical forces, economic and political forms and technologies of image production. Contemporary art expresses this condition, Osborne maintains, through its distinctively postconceptual form. These essays--extending the scope and arguments of Osborne's Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art--move from philosophical consideration of the changing temporal conditions of capitalist modernity, via problems of formalism, the politics of art and the changing shape of art institutions, to interpretation and analysis of particular works by Akram Zataari, Xavier Le Roy and Ilya Kabakov, and the postconceptual situation of a crisis-ridden New Music"--
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Osborne, Peter
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non fiction
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  • Art, Modern
  • Art, Modern
  • Conceptual art
  • ART / Conceptual
  • PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
  • Art, Modern
  • Conceptual art
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The postconceptual condition : critical essays, Peter Osborne
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
Preface -- Part I. Time of the present. The postconceptual condition: Or, the cultural logic of high capitalism today -- Global modernity and the contemporary: Two categories of the philosophy of historical time -- Temporalization as transcendental aesthetics: Avant-garde, modern, contemporary -- Part II. Art and politics. Theorem 4. Autonomy: Can it be true of art and politics at the same time? -- Disguised as a dog: Cynical occupy? -- Part III. Institutions. October and the problem of formalism -- Existential urgency: Contemporaneity, biennials and social form -- Archive as afterlife and life of art -- Part IV. Art and image. The distributed image -- Information, story, image: Akram Zaatari's historical constructivism -- Dialectical ontology of art: Xavier Le Roy's Retrospective in/as contemporary art -- The Kabakov effect: 'Moscow conceptualism' in the history of contemporary art -- The terminology is in crisis: Postconceptual art and new music -- The image is the subject: Once more on the temporalities of image and act
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987279063
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xi, 223 pages
Isbn
9781786634207
Lccn
2017050552
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
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  • n
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(OCoLC)987279063
Label
The postconceptual condition : critical essays, Peter Osborne
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Preface -- Part I. Time of the present. The postconceptual condition: Or, the cultural logic of high capitalism today -- Global modernity and the contemporary: Two categories of the philosophy of historical time -- Temporalization as transcendental aesthetics: Avant-garde, modern, contemporary -- Part II. Art and politics. Theorem 4. Autonomy: Can it be true of art and politics at the same time? -- Disguised as a dog: Cynical occupy? -- Part III. Institutions. October and the problem of formalism -- Existential urgency: Contemporaneity, biennials and social form -- Archive as afterlife and life of art -- Part IV. Art and image. The distributed image -- Information, story, image: Akram Zaatari's historical constructivism -- Dialectical ontology of art: Xavier Le Roy's Retrospective in/as contemporary art -- The Kabakov effect: 'Moscow conceptualism' in the history of contemporary art -- The terminology is in crisis: Postconceptual art and new music -- The image is the subject: Once more on the temporalities of image and act
Control code
987279063
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xi, 223 pages
Isbn
9781786634207
Lccn
2017050552
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)987279063

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