Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art

Greaney, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0816687382 / ISBN 13: 9780816687381

Editore: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014

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• Titolo: Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art
• Editore: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0816687382
• ISBN 13: 9780816687381
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Literature and art have always depended on imitation, and in the past few decades quotation and appropriation have become dominant aesthetic practices. But critical methods have not kept pace with this development. Patrick Greaney reopens the debate about quotation and appropriation, shifting away from naïve claims about the death of the author. In interpretations of art and literature from the 1960s to the present, Quotational Practices shows how artists and writers use quotation not to undermine authorship and originality, but to answer questions at the heart of twentieth-century philosophies of history.

Greaney argues that quotation is a technique employed by art and philosophy to build ties to the past and to possible futures. By exploring quotation’s links to gender, identity, and history, he offers new approaches to works by some of the most influential modern and contemporary artists, writers, and philosophers, including Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, Marcel Broodthaers, Glenn Ligon, Sharon Hayes, and Vanessa Place.

Ultimately, Quotational Practices reveals innovative perspectives on canonical philosophical texts as well as art and literature in a wide range of genres and mediums—from concrete poetry and the artist’s book to performance, painting, and video art.

Informazioni sull?autore

Patrick Greaney is associate professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is author of Untimely Beggar: Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin (Minnesota, 2008).