If you attend a contemporary art exhibition today, you’re unlikely
to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today
are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions
about particular media—such as painting, or woodcuts—and instead
focus on collisions between them, and the new forms and ideas that
those collisions generate. Garrett Stewart in Transmedium dubs this
new approach Conceptualism 2.0, an allusion in part to the computer
images that are so often addressed by these works. A successor to
1960s Conceptualism, which posited that a material medium was
unnecessary to the making of art, Conceptualism 2.0 features artworks
that are transmedial, that place the aesthetic experience itself
deliberately at the boundary between often incommensurable media. The
result, Stewart shows, is art whose forced convergences break open new
possibilities that are wholly surprising, intellectually enlightening,
and often uncanny.
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Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780226501062
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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