Gavin (Hrsg.) Butt

After Criticism

New Responses to Art and Performance

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It has recently become apparent that criticism has fallen on hard times. Either commodification is deemed to have killed it off, or it has become institutionally routine. This book explores contemporary approaches which have sought to renew criticism's energies in the wake of a 'theatrical turn' in recent visual arts practice, and the emergence of a 'performative' arts writing over the past decade or so. Issues addressed include the 'performing' of art's histories; the consequences for criticism of embracing boredom, distraction and other 'queer' forms of (in)attention; and the importance of exploring writerly process in responding to aesthet… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-631-23284-1
EAN: 9780631232841
Produktnummer: 9238427
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 232 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 332 g
Gewicht: 332
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Gavin Butt teaches in the Unit of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests encompass performance and performativity in the visual arts; queer theory; and queer cultures and their histories. He is the author of a book on gossip and homosexuality entitled Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the American Art World 1948--1963 (2005).