260 Pages
53 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
260 Pages
53 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.
Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van... Read more
Introduction 1. Art as Historiography 2. Ready for History: The Explosion of the Documentary 3. The Crux of Authorship 4. Archiving, Recording 5. Showing, Telling, Picturing 6. Performing 7. Counterfactual History, Parafiction, and the Critical Ends of Utopia 8. Testing Truth: Tribunal, Script, Trial 9. Anachronism and Anachrony 10. No End of History: Art and History in the Anthropocene
Biography
Eva Kernbauer is Chair of Art History at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
"Kernbauer’s book is an important intervention into (artistic) historiography and global art history methodology. ...Kernbauer’s conceptual history of art’s relation to history, her theoretical reflections on history, history writing and time offer invaluable new insights into the historiographical concepts and challenges that are discussed in contemporary artistic historiographies."--Journal of Art Historiography
