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This work includes essays by Roland Barthes, Joseph Beuys, Nicolas Bourriaud, Peter Burger, Graciela Carnevale, Lygia Clark, Collective Actions, Eda Cufer, Guy Debord, Jeremy Deller, Umberto Eco, Hal Foster, Edouard Glissant, Group Material, Felix Guattari, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Holler, Allan Kaprow, Lars Bang Larsen, Jean-Luc Nancy, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Helio Oiticica, Adrian Piper, Jacques Ranciere, Dirk Schwarze, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of 20th century art. Published in the "Documents of Contemporary Art" series, this title collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context including essays by Umberto Eco, Roland Barthes, Peter Burger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Edouard Glissant, Felix Guattari and Jacques Ranciere. The book also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Adrian Piper, Thomas Hirschhorn and Rirkrit Tiravanija, and features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
GREAT BOOK, ALL YOU NEED TO READ WITH REGARDS TO PARTICIPATION IN CONTEMPORARY ART (THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK, ARTISTIC ACTIVITY THROUGH ARTISTS' WRITINGS, CRITICAL ESSAYS)
ALL IN ALL, IT PROVIDES A SOUND THEORICAL-MAINLY- BACKROUND FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
MY PROPOSAL TO READ IT ALOND WITH "INSTALLATION ART" BY SAME AUTHOR (CLAIRE BISHOP)
VIVIAN
ALL IN ALL, IT PROVIDES A SOUND THEORICAL-MAINLY- BACKROUND FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION.
MY PROPOSAL TO READ IT ALOND WITH "INSTALLATION ART" BY SAME AUTHOR (CLAIRE BISHOP)
VIVIAN
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing
29 Jan 2010
Format:Paperback
This edited collection of short readings is part of a series jointly published by Whitechapel gallery and MIT press. They are all based around topical themes in modern and contemporary art: participation, the archive, utopia, appropriation and so forth. This one on participation is not very well structured, the selected texts are often very abbreviated, and the logic of the selection is hard to follow.
For anyone seriously interested in the topic of participation in art this book will disappoint. A better book would be Grant Kester's Conversation Pieces or the recent exhibition catalogue (The Art of Participation 1950 to Now), or Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics. If you don't know anything at all about participation in art and want a few pointers on the topic, it's OK but not great.
Having bought this one and flicked through others in the series in bookshops I wouldn't buy another one.
I can't work out who the publishers are aiming at in terms of audience, maybe undergraduates?
For anyone seriously interested in the topic of participation in art this book will disappoint. A better book would be Grant Kester's Conversation Pieces or the recent exhibition catalogue (The Art of Participation 1950 to Now), or Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics. If you don't know anything at all about participation in art and want a few pointers on the topic, it's OK but not great.
Having bought this one and flicked through others in the series in bookshops I wouldn't buy another one.
I can't work out who the publishers are aiming at in terms of audience, maybe undergraduates?
17 of 44 people found the following review helpful
a must for all art afficiados
3 April 2007
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Until I read this book I could not give myself permission to have my own ideas about some of the world's greatest art pieces and give my educated opinion about them. Umberto Eco's 1st essay is a wonder!
1 of 51 people found the following review helpful
very good
27 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
This book arrived on time. The book was new as described by seller and had a good price.
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