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Beschreibung
An upsurge in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution, and reception has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world but have long been understudied. In response, this book introduces the concept of infrastructure aesthetics into the study of culture.

The concept is drawn from infrastructure studies, media theory, and aesthetic theory. This volume develops it further, addressing:

  • the analytical challenge of working with works that blur the boundaries between art and infrastructure, both historically and in the present,
  • the aesthetic problem of assessing artistic forms that operate on an infrastructural level, and
  • the politics of artistic agency on a social level, beyond the work's content or message.

As the relation between artworks and their institutional and social settings becomes infrastructural in nature, we need to move beyond the reductive division of the study of artworks into production, articulation, and reception. This book provides its readers with an innovative conceptual toolbox designed for precisely this task, as well as a forceful set of exemplary case studies applying the concepts in theory and practice.

An upsurge in artworks negotiating the conditions of their own production, distribution, and reception has called attention to the infrastructural relations that shape the art world but have long been understudied. In response, this book introduces the concept of infrastructure aesthetics into the study of culture.

The concept is drawn from infrastructure studies, media theory, and aesthetic theory. This volume develops it further, addressing:

  • the analytical challenge of working with works that blur the boundaries between art and infrastructure, both historically and in the present,
  • the aesthetic problem of assessing artistic forms that operate on an infrastructural level, and
  • the politics of artistic agency on a social level, beyond the work's content or message.

As the relation between artworks and their institutional and social settings becomes infrastructural in nature, we need to move beyond the reductive division of the study of artworks into production, articulation, and reception. This book provides its readers with an innovative conceptual toolbox designed for precisely this task, as well as a forceful set of exemplary case studies applying the concepts in theory and practice.

Zusammenfassung
Solveig Daugaard, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Frederik Tygstrup, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: VII
418 S.
15 s/w Illustr.
15 b/w ill.
ISBN-13: 9783111349831
ISBN-10: 3111349837
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Solveig Daugaard
Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt
Frederik Tygstrup
Redaktion: Daugaard, Solveig
Schmidt, Cecilie Ullerup
Tygstrup, Frederik
Herausgeber: Solveig Daugaard/Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt/Frederik Tygstrup
Hersteller: De Gruyter
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Abbildungen: 15 b/w ill.
Maße: 230 x 155 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Solveig Daugaard (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,666 kg
Artikel-ID: 129308444