Destruction
$46.67
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2017
Summary
Essays explore contemporary artists’ engagement with destruction, and how it has disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions.The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262534345 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262534347 |
| Author: | Sven Spieker |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 561g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 152mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art |
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About The Author
Sven Spieker
Sven Spieker is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of ARTmargins. His books include The Big Archive- Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press).
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