In the Flow - Couverture rigide

Groys, Boris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1784783501 ISBN 13 : 9781784783501

Editeur : Verso Books, 2016

Synopsis

In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit, as works of art as sacred object was decried and they would be understood as merely things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as the traditional preservative mission of the museum. Acclaimed art theorist Boris Gorys argues this led to the development of direct realism: an art that would not produce objects, but practices (from performance art to relational aesthetics) that would not survive. But for more than a century now, every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving arts distinction. In this major new work, Groys charts the paradoxes produced by this tension, and explores art in the age of the thingless medium, the internet. Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Boris Groys is Professor of Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, and since 2005, the Global Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU. He has published numerous books including On the New, Introduction to Antiphilosophy, The Total Art of Stalinism, and The Communist Postscript.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784783501
• ISBN 13: 9781784783501
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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