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Relational Art: A Guided Tour

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Description for Relational Art: A Guided Tour hardcover. Taking place in the skies over London, the plazas of Rotterdam, and the hallways of museums worldwide, a new kind of art has emerged since the 1990s. Known as Relational Art, this controversial practice features audience participation in ways never before realised, often using new media and social networking. Series: International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 224 pages, 40 integrated bw. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. .

Taking place in the skies over London, the plazas of Rotterdam, and the hallways of museums worldwide, a new kind of art has emerged since the 1990s. Known as Relational Art, this conceptual practice features audience participation in ways never before realised, often using new media and social networking. In this book, academic and artist Craig Smith outlines a rigorous theory of Relational Art, explaining why audience interaction and collective art production has become so relevant.

Tracing the development of the movement, from its beginnings with the 1996 Traffic exhibition in Bordeaux and Nicolas Bourriaud's treatise Relational ... Read more, to the diverse and international scope of Relational Art today, this provocative book explores the foundational impact this movement has had on contemporary art and exhibition making.

Taking the reader through a range of case studies, such as Olafur Eliasson's iconic Weather Project at Tate Modern, and uniting ideas from artists, art critics, curators, philosophers and audience members, it reveals the practices integral to the movement and how these have affected aesthetic, theoretical and economic forces in the art world. Through a guided tour of thought-provoking and influential works, he demonstrates that Relational Art has permanently altered the nature of art and its global audiences.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780762555
SKU
V9781780762555
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Ref
99-50

About Craig Smith
Craig Smith is Associate Professor of Art at the College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, USA. His previous books include Training Manual for Relational Art (2009) and On the Subject of the Photographic (2007). He is also a media artist, using image, sound and text to explore the production of contemporary culture.

Reviews for Relational Art: A Guided Tour
A critically informed engagement with art that involves participation and interactivity, this book is a superb introduction to an increasingly important form of art practice, likely to become a key text for anyone interested in this kind of work.
Charlie Gere, Professor of Media Theory and History, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK
Smith provides ... Read more

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