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Destruction

Sven Spieker,  Iwona Blazwick

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English
MIT Press
11 August 2017
The Arts: General & Reference; Art & design styles: Postmodernism
Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
"Essays explore contemporary artists' engagement with destruction, and how it has disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions.

The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art's fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent ""open work."" This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art. Artists surveyed include

Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Alexander Brener, Stuart Brisley, Douglas Gordon, Huang Yong Ping, Enrique Jezik, Milan Knizak, Paul McCarthy, Piero Manzoni, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Otto M hl, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Petr Pavlensky, William Pope.L, Walid Raad, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Song Dong, Jean Tinguely, Wolf Vostell Writers include

Alain Badiou, Walter Benjamin, Horst Bredekamp, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Medina Cuauthemoc, Dario Gamboni, Richard Galpin, Caleb Kelly, Bruno Latour, Sven L tticken, Antonio Negri, Sophie O'Brien, Kristine Stiles, Jennifer Walden"
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 211mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   561g
ISBN:   9780262534345
ISBN 10:   0262534347
Series:   Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sven Spieker is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of ARTmargins. His books include The Big Archive- Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press).

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