From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0271037032 ISBN 13 : 9780271037035

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Games and play occupied a central, if misunderstood, role in modern art in the twentieth century. Many art-historical narratives have downplayed the ways in which artists returned to play and to games as analogues to art practice, as metaphors for creativity, or as models for art criticism. The essays collected in this volume investigate the fundamental importance of supposedly nonserious activity and attend to the ways in which artists used play and games in order to reconsider their practice and to expand their critical strategies. With subjects ranging from early twentieth-century manifestations of games and play in Surrealism, Duchamp, Picasso, and Bauhaus photography to their repercussions in Fluxus, performance, public practice, and new media, these essays establish the diversity and potential of games and play and point toward an alternate trajectory in the development of modern art.

Aside from the editor, the contributors are Florencia Bazzano-Nelson, Jon Cates, Mary Ann Caws, Susan Laxton, Claudia Mesch, Kevin Moore, Gavin Parkinson, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Owen F. Smith, Ellen Handler Spitz, Stephanie L. Taylor, and Debra Wacks.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David J. Getsy is Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Chair in Art History and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271037032
• ISBN 13: 9780271037035
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Getsy David J.
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