A Show of Hands: Crafting Concepts in Contemporary Art - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3111018369 ISBN 13: 9783111018362

Casa editrice: De Gruyter, 2024

Riassunto

In contrast to the divide between conception and execution advocated by Anglo-American artists in the second half of the 1960s, this book reappraises conceptual art by examining it from the perspective of craft. The emphasis on craft shifts the focus from the Western art system to its margins, where creators were relegated to the status of mere artisans in the colonial context, on the pretext that attaining that of artists was beyond their reach. From this peripheral point of view, the book shows that work carried out with artisanal means can lead to conceptual practice. Moreover, this shift in perspective provides a new understanding of several positions within conceptualism, which ultimately appears as an ongoing reflection on the role of the hands, making, and craft.

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Ileana Parvu, Professorin für Kunstgeschichte und -theorie an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Genf (HEAD-Genève, HES-SO), Lehrbeauftragte an der Universität Basel. Zu ihren Forschungsgebieten gehören die Überschreitung der Grenzen zwischen den Kunstgattungen, der Begriff des Objekts in der Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, die osteuropäische Kunst der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre, die Untersuchung der Konzeptkunst, insbesondere unter dem Aspekt des Making .

Ileana Parvu, professor of history and theory of art at Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD–Genève, HES-SO), lecturer at the University of Basel. After researching the crossing of boundaries between artistic genres and the notion of the object in 20th- and 21st-century art, she embarked on a project examining the making of conceptual art. This endeavor resulted in the current book, A Show of Hands, among other publications. Her ongoing research delves into Romanian art of the 1970s.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: De Gruyter
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3111018369
• ISBN 13: 9783111018362
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Redattore: Parvu Ileana
• Contatto del produttore: De Gruyter; https://blog.degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Stra?e 13; Berlin; 10785; Germania