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Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820
Liam Gillick
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Description for Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820
Hardback. Series: Bampton Lectures in America. Num Pages: 192 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of contemporary art. In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to ... Read more
The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of contemporary art. In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Bampton Lectures in America
Condition
New
Weight
432g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231170208
SKU
V9780231170208
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About Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick is an artist based in New York. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including documenta and the Venice and Berlin Biennales, and he has been nominated for a Turner Prize and Vincent Award. He serves on the graduate committee of the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College and was a ... Read more
Reviews for Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820
In prose at once forthright and oblique, Liam Gillick attempts to extricate himself-and us, his readers-from the enveloping protoplasm known as 'contemporary art.' At the core of this book is a compelling alternative genealogy for our current condition, traced across four soft revolutions from 1820 to 1974. What that genealogy cumulatively reveals is a provocative diagnosis of the present as ... Read more