Boredom
$46.79
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2017
Summary
Boredom in modern and contemporary art- as something to be struggled against, embraced as an experience, or explored as a potential site of resistance.Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity. The current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialization, mass politics, and consumerism. From Manet onwards, when art represents the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are inevitable. And starting with modernism’s retreat into abstraction through subsequent de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533447 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262533448 |
| Author: | Tom McDonough |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 152mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art |
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About The Author
Tom McDonough
Tom McDonough is Associate Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of “The Beautiful Language of My Century”- Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 (MIT Press).
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