Falling for Gravity: Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art - Brossura

James, Catherine

 
9783034317269: Falling for Gravity: Invisible Forces in Contemporary Art
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ISBN 10: 3034317263 ISBN 13: 9783034317269
Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2017

Sinossi

This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing on material practices – chiefly sculpture, installation, performance, and film – this discussion takes account of how and why artists have used gravity and explores the similarities between their work and the popular cultural forms of circus, vaudeville, burlesque, and film.

Works by Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas, and Robert Smithson are mediated through ideas of Gnostic doubt, atomism, and new materialism. In other examples – by John Wood and Paul Harrison, Gordon Matta-Clark, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Trisha Brown, and Bas Jan Ader – mass and momentum, falling objects, and falling bodies are examined in relation to architecture, sculpture, and dance. In performances, projects and events curated by Bruce Nauman, Santiago Sierra, and Catherine Yass, gravity is resisted in Sisyphean ordeals and death-defying stunts.

This account of contemporary art and performance, read through the invisible membrane of gravity, exposes new and distinctive approaches to agency reduction, authorial doubt, and redemptive failure.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Catherine James is Lecturer in Academic Practice at University of the Arts London. Since completing her doctoral studies at the London Consortium in 2004, she served as Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art at Christie’s Education for many years and has contributed to a variety of conferences and journals related to her research on gravity in art and performance.

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Editore
Peter Lang Pub Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3034317263
ISBN 13 
9783034317269
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
222
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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