Overview
In Asking theAudience, Adair Rounthwaite analyzes the rising popularity of audienceparticipation in American art during the 1980s. From artists and audiences toinstitutions, funders, and critics, Rounthwaite traces the networks thatparticipatory art creates between various agents, demonstrating how, since the1980s, leftist political engagement has become a cornerstone of theinstitutionalized consumption of contemporary art.
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Author: Adair Rounthwaite
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.599kg
ISBN: 9780816698738
ISBN 10: 0816698732
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 February 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<i>Asking the Audience</i> provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the emergence of institutionalized social art practice over the past fifteen years. Adair Rounthwaite's detailed discussion of the role of pedagogy and education also provides important grounding of these projects in broader intellectual trends during the 1980s and early 90s. --Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego</p>
Asking the Audience provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the emergence of institutionalized social art practice over the past fifteen years. Adair Rounthwaite's detailed discussion of the role of pedagogy and education also provides important grounding of these projects in broader intellectual trends during the 1980s and early 90s. -Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego As a high-definition snapshot of what cultural participation looked like toward the close of the twentieth century, Asking the Audience ultimately invites a deeper consideration of what it means today, at the dawn of the twenty-first. -Panorama In her commitment to pursuing archival traces of audience responses, Rounthwaite produces a textured account of a carefully selected set of works. -Postmodern Culture
<i>Asking the Audience</i> provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the emergence of institutionalized social art practice over the past fifteen years. Adair Rounthwaite's detailed discussion of the role of pedagogy and education also provides important grounding of these projects in broader intellectual trends during the 1980s and early 90s. Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego</p>
Asking the Audience provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the emergence of institutionalized social art practice over the past fifteen years. Adair Rounthwaite's detailed discussion of the role of pedagogy and education also provides important grounding of these projects in broader intellectual trends during the 1980s and early 90s.-Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego
As a high-definition snapshot of what cultural participation looked like toward the close of the twentieth century, Asking the Audience ultimately invites a deeper consideration of what it means today, at the dawn of the twenty-first. -Panorama Asking the Audience provides an invaluable foundation for understanding the emergence of institutionalized social art practice over the past fifteen years. Adair Rounthwaite's detailed discussion of the role of pedagogy and education also provides important grounding of these projects in broader intellectual trends during the 1980s and early 90s. -Grant Kester, University of California, San Diego
Author Information
Adair Rounthwaite is assistant professor of art history at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has published essays on a range of topics in contemporary global art history in journals such as Representations, Camera Obscura, Art Journal, and Third Text.
