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Overview"Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. -from Social PracticesMixing biography, autobiography, fiction, criticism, and conversations among friends, with Social Practices Chris Kraus continues the anthropological exploration of artistic lives and the art world begun in 2004 with Video Green- Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness. Social Practices includes writings from and around the legendary ""Chance Event-Three Days in the Desert with Jean Baudrillard"" (1996), and ""Radical Localism,"" an exhibition of art and media from Puerto Nuevo's Mexicali Rose that Kraus co-organized with Marco Vera and Richard Birkett in 2012. Attuned to the odd and the anomalous, Kraus profiles Elias Fontes, an Imperial Valley hay merchant who has become an important collector of contemporary Mexican art, and chronicles the demise of a rural convenience store in northern Minnesota. She considers the work of such major contemporary artists as Jason Rhoades, Channa Horowitz, Simon Denny, Yayoi Kusama, Henry Taylor, Julie Becker, Ryan McGinley, and Leigh Ledare. Although Kraus casts a skeptical eye at the genre that's come to be known as ""social practice,"" her book is less a critique than a proposition as to how art might be read through desire and circumstance, delirium, gossip, coincidence, and revenge. All art, she implies, is a social practice." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chris Kraus , Sylvere LotringerPublisher: Semiotext (E) Imprint: Semiotext (E) Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9781635900392ISBN 10: 1635900395 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 14 September 2018 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsHer writing is conversational yet critical, engaged yet incisive, with elements of chance, memory, and travel animating each entry. -Brooklyn Rail Author InformationChris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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