One and the Many Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

Name: One and the Many Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
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ISBN: 9780822349877

ISBN-10: 0822349876

ISBN-13: 9780822349877

Edition: 2011

Authors: Grant H. Kester

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Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the ManyGrant Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art world, such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Superflex, Francis Alÿs and Santiago Sierra, to the less publicized projects of groups such as Park Fiction in Hamburg, NICA in Myanmar, Ala Plastica in Argentina, Huit Facettes in Senegal, and Dialogue in central India. The work of these groups often overlaps with the activities of NGOs, activists, and urban planners. Kester argues that these parallels are…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 9/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.30" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Semantics of Collaboration



Art Practice and the Intellectual Baroque



Autonomy, Antagonism, and The Aesthetic



From Text to Action



Park Fiction, Ala Plastica, and Dialogue



Relational Antagonism



The Risk of Diversity



Programmatic Multiplicity



Art Theory and the Post-structuralist Canon



The Genius Of The Place



Lessons in Futility



Enclosure Acts



The Twelfth Seat and the Mirrored Ceiling



The Atelier as Workshop



Labor, Praxis, and Representation



The Divided and Incomplete Subject of Yesterday



Memories of Development



The Limits of Ethical Capitalism



The Art of the Locality



Eminent Domain: Art and Urban Space



Blindness and Insight



The Invention of the Public



The Boulevards of the Inner City



Park Fiction: Desire, Resistance, and Complicity



A Culture of Needles: Project Row Houses in Houston


Notes


References


Index