Art and Contemporary Critical Practice by Hito Steyerl

Art and Contemporary Critical Practice by Hito Steyerl

Institutional critique is best known through the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who presented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system. Since then it has been pushed in new directions by new generations of artists registering and responding to the global transformations of contemporary life. The essays collected in this volume explore this legacy and develop the models of institutional critique in ways that go well beyond the field of art. Interrogating the shifting relations between institutions and critique, the contributors to this volume analyze the past and present of institutional critique and propose lines of future development. Engaging with the work of philosophers and political theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno and others, these essays reflect on the mutual enrichments between critical art practices and social movements and elaborate the conditions for politicized critical practice in the twenty-first century.

Raunig, Gerald: - Gerald Raunig is a philosopher and art theorist. He works at the Zü¾˜¶˜¼rich University of the Arts, Zü¾˜¶˜¼rich and the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies), Vienna. He is coeditor of the multilingual publishing platform Transversal Texts and the Austrian journal Kamion. He is the author of Art and Revolution, A Thousand Machines, and Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, all published by Semiotext[e].

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ISBN 13	9781906948023
ISBN 10	190694802X
Title	Art and Contemporary Critical Practice
Author	Hito Steyerl
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MayFly
Year published	2009-05-01
Number of pages	266
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