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Author:   Johanna Gosse ,  Timothy Stott
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.544kg
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9781478013822

ISBN 10:   1478013826
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   11 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword / Judith Rodenbeck  vii Acknowledgments  ix After the Breakdown: Sixty Years of Systems Art / Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott  1 Section I: Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics 1. Jack Burnham Redux: Reappraising System Aesthetics / Luke Skrebowski  31 2. The Artist as ""Weatherman"": Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology / John Tyson  55 3. Desalineación: Open Systems as Social Transformation in Tucumán Arde / Christine Filippone  78 Section II: Nervous Interfaces 4. The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines / Kris Cohen  103 5. Light and Space as Institutional Critique / Dawna Schuld  125 6. One among Many: Experiencing Complexity in Participatory Art Systems / Cristina Albu  148 Section III: The Contemporary Art World Described as a System 7. Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: Liam Gillick's Disappointing Systems / Francis Halsall  173 8. Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: Mel Chin's The Arctic Is . . . / Amanda Boetzkes  192 9. Mapping, SEA STATE, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore / Brianne Cohen  213 10. Toward Infrastructure Art: Containerization, Black Box Logistics, and New Distribution Complexes / Jaimey Hamilton Faris  235 Selected Bibliography  261 Contributors  277 Index 281

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A vital and much-needed contribution to the literature on art and systems discourse. If the history of art has largely treated systems theory in terms of its technocratic implications in the 1960s, Nervous Systems expands the field to postwar and contemporary art, addressing race, gender, ecology, and global networks as among its most urgent questions. -- Pamela M. Lee, author of * Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present * Nervous Systems is one of the most impressive and conceptually-nuanced collections of art historical essays that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. A model of what contemporary arts scholarship can look like, this volume is both eminently readable and, most of all, teachable. -- Jonathan Eburne, author of * Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas *

“A vital and much-needed contribution to the literature on art and systems discourse. If the history of art has largely treated systems theory in terms of its technocratic implications in the 1960s, Nervous Systems expands the field to postwar and contemporary art, addressing race, gender, ecology, and global networks as among its most urgent questions.” -- Pamela M. Lee, author of * Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present * “Nervous Systems is one of the most impressive and conceptually nuanced collections of art historical essays that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. A model of what contemporary arts scholarship can look like, this volume is eminently readable and, most of all, teachable.” -- Jonathan Eburne, author of * Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas *

Author Information

Johanna Gosse is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Idaho. Timothy Stott is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, and author of Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices. 

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