Particular Cases

Groys, Boris

ISBN 10: 3956792211 / ISBN 13: 9783956792212

Published by Sternber Pr, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Particular Cases
• Publisher: Sternber Pr
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3956792211
• ISBN 13: 9783956792212
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This collection of essays does not aim to illustrate a prefabricated theory of art, but rather follows the impulses given by artworks themselves. Philosopher and art critic Boris Groys writes about significant works and artists over the last century that have pushed his thinking in new directions. His compelling arguments do not try to replace the singular content or message of an artwork. Instead, his writings are inspired by art as a mind-changing practice—as if contemporary artists, completely secularized, can still produce a kind of conversion within the spectator. Particular Cases is an original exploration of pivotal concerns related to the development of contemporary art—originality and repetition, the valuation of artworks, materiality and production, historical and personal archives, and the language of power.

Featuring essays on Pawel Althamer, Francis Alÿs, Yael Bartana, Paul Chan, Olga Chernysheva, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Martin Honert, Rebecca Horn, IRWIN, Wassily Kandinsky, Piero Manzoni, Anri Sala, Thomas Schütte, Mladen Stilinovic, Inga Svala Thorsdottir and Wu Shanzhuan, Jeff Wall, Andy Warhol

About the Author

Penseur, écrivain, théoricien des médias et critique d'art allemand, Boris Groys (né en 1947 à Berlin Est) enseigne à la Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung de Karlsruhe. Ses travaux orientés vers l'art moderne et l'art contemporain développent une réflexion sur la modernité, la postmodernité et la question du sujet.