Art Is a Problem: Selected Criticism, Essays, Interviews and Curatorial Projects (1986–2012)

In this volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts and reviews, spanning 1986–2012, Joshua Decter examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts. The book encompasses seven chapters: “Institutional Critique and its Discontents”; “Aporia (art as politics, the politics of art)”; “Everything is Social”; “Convoluted Cities”; “The (Un)De-definition of Art”; “What Do We Want from Exhibitions?”; and “On the Curatorial Road.” The author unpacks art's paradoxical condition: art problematizes, and is intrinsically a problem. From this standpoint, he analyzes art's definitions, functions, ethical entanglements, societal aspirations and cultural contradictions.

Details

Type

Book

Series

Documents

Place of publication

Zürich

Publisher

JRP|Ringier

Year

2014

Number of pages

446 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9783037641958

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

No

UDC code and author sign

701.2 Dec

Volumes

1

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