1st Edition
Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures Tainted Goods
By Dan Adler
Copyright 2019
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials – often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine – and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic models... Read more
Introduction 1. Rachel Harrison: "Consider the Lobster" 2. Isa Genzken: "OIL" 3. Geoffrey Farmer: "Me into Many" 4. Liz Magor: "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" Conclusion
Biography
Dan Adler is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at York University in Toronto.
"This book is an argument for paying more attention to the material conditions of sculpture—not as a return to formalism, but as a powerful and necessary tool to cut through the lingo of installation art and the capaciousness of digital culture."
- Gloria Sutton, Northeastern University Art
