Contingent Object of Contemporary Art

Name: Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
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ISBN: 9780262524421

ISBN-10: 0262524422

ISBN-13: 9780262524421

Edition: 2005

Authors: Martha Buskirk

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In this book, Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early 1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other practices, contemporary artists have employed mass-produced elements, impermanent materials, and appropriated imagery, have incorporated performance and video, and have created works through instructions carried out by others. Furthermore, works of art that lack traditional signs of authenticity or permanence have been embraced by institutions long devoted to the original and the permanent. Buskirk begins with questions of authorship raised by minimalists' use of industrial materials and methods, including competing claims of ownership and…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 8.03" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Martha Buskirk is Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism at Montserrat College of Art.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Authorship and Authority



Original Copies



Medium and Materiality



Context as Subject



Contingent Objects


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index