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Overview"Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all--as much as we may want to consider it otherwise--is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane Blocker's ""Becoming Past."" The important point is not whether there is--or should be--contemporary art history, Blocker argues, but how.Focusing on a significant aspect of current art practice?in which artists have engaged with historical subject matter, methods, and inquiry?Blocker asks how the creation of the artist implicates and interrogates that of the art historian. She moves from art history to theater, to performance, and to literature as she investigates a series of works, including performances by the collaborative group Goat Island, the film ""Deadpan"" by Steve McQueen, the philosophies of science fiction writer Samuel Delany and documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee, the film"" Amos Fortune Road ""by Matthew Buckingham, and sculptures by Dario Robleto.Many books have sought to understand the key directions of contemporary art. In contrast, ""Becoming Past"" is concerned with the application of art history in the pursuit of such trends. Setting the idea of temporality decisively in the realm of art, Blocker's work is crucial for artists, art historians, curators, critics, and scholars of performance and cultural studies interested in the role of history in the practice of art." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane BlockerPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780816696987ISBN 10: 0816696985 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 20 December 2015 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: History as Prosthesis 1. Wooden Legs: Goat Island's Acts of Repair 2. Houses Falling Down: Archival Violence in Steve McQueen's Deadpan 3. Incorrect and Incomplete: Ross McElwee's Fictions and Samuel Delany's Lies 4. The Empty Stage: A Story About the Past by Matthew Buckingham 5. Stupid Birds: Temporal Dissidence in The Lastmaker 6. Transitional Objects: Dario Robleto's Spools Conclusion. Wooden Feet: Francis Alÿs and Syncopated Time Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA timely intervention into ongoing debates about temporal dimension of performance and art, Becoming Past is an engaged critical work that takes historiography as an innovative way of approaching contemporary art. --Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford University Becoming Past is about contemporary art's engagement in a special kind of history making--one that unsettles the linearity of the historical narrative, as well as history's apparent mastery and neat conclusions over what it seeks to document. In this intelligent, deeply insightful and elegantly written book, Jane Blocker pushes this engagement even further by asking: What would it mean to take contemporary artistic practices 'seriously as history rather than simply as art'? --Christine Ross, author of The Past Is the Present; It's the Future Too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art A timely intervention into ongoing debates about temporal dimension of performance and art, Becoming Past is an engaged critical work that takes historiography as an innovative way of approaching contemporary art. Branislav Jakovljevic, Stanford University Becoming Past is about contemporary art s engagement in a special kind of history making one that unsettles the linearity of the historical narrative, as well as history s apparent mastery and neat conclusions over what it seeks to document. In this intelligent, deeply insightful and elegantly written book, Jane Blocker pushes this engagement even further by asking: What would it mean to take contemporary artistic practices seriously as history rather than simply as art ? Christine Ross, author of The Past Is the Present; It s the Future Too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art Author InformationJane Blocker is professor of art history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Seeing Witness:Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony and What the Body Cost: Desire, History, and Performance (both from Minnesota), as well as Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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