The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
  • critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 21 cm.
  • 317 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262025396

The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art

Martha Buskirk

The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art

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Critical theory by Martha Buskirk a Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism at Montserrat College of Art. "Buskirk explores how artists active in the 1980s and 1990s have recombined strategies of the art of the 1960s and 1970s. She also shows how the mechanisms through which art is presented shape not only readings of the work but the work itself. She uses her discussion of the readymade and conceptual art to explore broader issues of authorship, reproduction, context, and temporality." -- from publisher's notes. Chapters in the book are "Authorship and Authority"; "Original Copies"; "Medium and Materiality"; "Context as Subject" and "Contingent Objects." Also includes a selected bibliography.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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