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Author Behar, Katherine.

Title And Another Thing : Nonanthropocentrism and Art / Katherine Behar.

Imprint [Place of publication not identified] : Punctum Books, 2016.

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Summary Annotation In And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art, Katherine Behar and Emmy Mikelson explore how artists engage with nonanthropocentrism, one of the primary tenets shared by recent speculative realist and new materialist philosophies. Extending their investigations in And Another Thing, an exhibition which the authors curated in 2011, this volume documents both that exhibition and expands on two of its curatorial aims: prioritizing art historical contexts for contemporary philosophy (rather than the other way around), and apprehending artworks as historically specific objects of philosophy.The book is organized in three sections. In the first section, Behar and Mikelson provide long-form essays that chart the evolution of nonanthropocentrism and art, spanning eighteenth-century architectural drawing, performance, minimalist sculpture, and contemporary postminimalism. These essays raise the stakes for art and speculative realism, showing how artists have figured and prefigured nonanthropocentric ideas strikingly similar to those expounded in various "new" realist, materialist, and speculativist philosophies. Literally occupying the center of the volume, in section two, the exhibition is represented by full-color plates of eleven works by Carl Andre, Laura Carton, Valie Export, Regina José Galindo, Tom Kotik, Mary Lucking, Bruce Nauman, Grit Ruhland, Anthony Titus, Ruslan Trusewych, and Zimoun. Artworks by these emerging and canonical figures lay bare the networks of alliances underlying the exhibition. The book concludes with three short meditations on the relation between nonanthropocentrism and art, and what that relation might portend for future thought. These essays, by Bill Brown, Patricia Ticineto Clough, and Robert Jackson, are speculative in the sense that they perceive potentials for theory arising from nonanthropocentrism's manifestations in art.
Language English.
Contents Space for things: art, objects, and speculation / Emmy Mikelson -- Arbitrary objects: minimalism and nonanthropocentrism / Katherine Behar -- Curatorial statement / Katherine Behar and Emmy Mikelson -- Carl Andre -- Laura Carton -- Valie Export -- Regina Jose Galindo -- Tom Kotik -- Mary Lucking -- Bruce Nauman -- Grit Ruhland -- Anthony Titus -- Ruslan Trusewych -- Zimoun -- The recentness of things / Bill Brown -- Demonstration and description / Robert Jackson -- Trauma expanded/aesthetics expanded / Patricia Ticineto Clough.
Subject Art and morals.
Art, Modern.
Exhibition catalogs.
Art et morale.
Catalogues d'exposition.
exhibition catalogs.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Philosophy / Aesthetics.
Art and morals
Art, Modern
Exhibition catalogs
Indexed Term aesthetics, cultural theory, thing theory, posthumanism, anthropocene
Added Author Mikelson, Emmy.
Other Form: Print version: 0692652663
ISBN 9780692652664 (paperback)
0692652663 (paperback)
Standard No. 9780692652664
10.21983/P3.0144.1.00 doi
AU@ 000069189333

 
    
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