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Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art
Jane Blocker
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Description for Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all-as much as we may want to consider it otherwise-is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane Blocker's Becoming Past. The important point is not whether there is-or should be-contemporary art history, Blocker argues, but how. Focusing on a significant aspect of current art practice?in which artists have engaged with historical subject matter, methods, and inquiry?Blocker asks how the creation of the artist implicates and interrogates that of the ... Read more
Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all-as much as we may want to consider it otherwise-is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane Blocker's Becoming Past. The important point is not whether there is-or should be-contemporary art history, Blocker argues, but how. Focusing on a significant aspect of current art practice?in which artists have engaged with historical subject matter, methods, and inquiry?Blocker asks how the creation of the artist implicates and interrogates that of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
301g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816696987
SKU
V9780816696987
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About Jane Blocker
Jane Blocker is professor of art history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Seeing Witness:Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony and What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (both from Minnesota), as well as Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile.
Reviews for Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art
A timely intervention into ongoing debates about temporal dimension of performance and art, Becoming Past is an engaged critical work that takes historiography as an innovative way of approaching contemporary art. -Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford University Becoming Past is about contemporary art's engagement in a special kind of history making-one that unsettles the linearity of the historical ... Read more