The Synthetic Proposition by Nizan Shaked
Traces two intersecting trajectories in American art. It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c'). -- .-
After-affects | after-images
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Otherwise
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The 'do-it-yourself' artwork
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Performance Art and Revolution
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Engendering an Avant-Garde
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Colouring the Caribbean
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Art + Archive
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Performance art in Eastern Europe since 1960
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I am Jugoslovenka!
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The Matter of Miracles
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Art, Museums and Touch
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Multiple and One
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Transcultural things and the spectre of Orientalism in early modern Poland-Lithuania
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Counter-realism
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Caribbean eco-aesthetics
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Contemporary art and ecological transformation in East and Southeast Asia
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Marks she made
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Abnormal peripheries
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Lesbian bones
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Walking with the enemy
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Photographic afterlives
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Taking place
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Feminist substances
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The art of decolonisation
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Above Sea
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Vertiginous Mirrors
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Women, the Arts and Globalization
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Productive Failure
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Bound Together
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Architecture and Ekphrasis
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There is No Soundtrack
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Staging Art and Chineseness
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The Ecological Eye
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The Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth-Century England
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Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil
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Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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The Face of Medicine
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Gender, Artwork and the Global Imperative
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Flesh Cinema
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Horizontal Together
‘Nizan Shaked's approach to Conceptual art is original, eloquent and informed by a quality of thought and scholarship that will set a new standard of excellence for work on this subjectHer grasp of the field is both capacious in its breadth and erudite in its depth and attention to artistic and historical detail. It is full of original insights – all delivered to the reader in unusually graceful prose. This book promises to be a ground-breaker.’
Adrian Piper
‘The premise of The Synthetic Proposition takes some of its cues from Joseph Kosuth’s ideas on art and philosophy. This coupled with an historical lens focusing specifically on marginalized groups such as the Black Panthers and the Gay Rights Movement beginning during the American Civil Rights era to help support the parallel trajectory of art during this period. A large component of Shaked’s proposition is if Conceptual Art is a 1960s entity, then conceptualism is the natural offspring resulting from identity politics and early forms of feminist intersectionality paired with artistic practice. Shaked carefully lays out the distinctions and argues for another way of historicizing late 1960s to 1990s art practices, besides the more common dichotomy of those practicing art for art’s sake and so-called political art.’
Jasper Lastoria, ARLIS/NA (January 2018)
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784992750 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784992755 |
| Title | The Synthetic Proposition |
| Author | Nizan Shaked |
| Series | Rethinking Art's Histories |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2017-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 31st annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art (2019) 2019 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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