How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art's Performativity
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- Synopsis
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Art has never been as culturally and economically prominent as it is today. How can artists themselves shape the social relevance and impact of their work?
In How to Do Things with Art, German art historian Dorothea von Hantelmann uses four case study artists--Daniel Buren, James Coleman, Jeff Koons and Tino Sehgal--to examine how an artwork acts upon and within social conventions, particularly through the performing of exhibitions. The book's title is a play on J.L. Austin's seminal text, How to Do Things with Words, which describes language's reality-producing properties and demonstrates that in saying there is always a doing--a linguistic counterpart to the dynamics envisioned by Von Hantelmann for art, in which showing is a kind of doing.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 208 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9783037643709
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783037643693, 9782840663614
- Publisher:
- JRP|Rinigier & Les Presses du Réel
- Date of Addition:
- 08/31/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Dorothea Von Hantelmann
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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