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Anywhere or Not at All

Philosophy of Contemporary Art

Philosophy of Contemporary Art

By Peter Osborne

By Peter Osborne

By Peter Osborne

By Peter Osborne

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Category: Art | Philosophy

Category: Art | Philosophy

Paperback $29.95

Jun 04, 2013 | ISBN 9781781680940

Ebook $9.99

Jun 04, 2013 | ISBN 9781781683354

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    About Anywhere or Not at All

    A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time

    Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Developing the position that “contemporary art is postconceptual art,” the book progresses through a dual series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of particular works to assess the art from a number of perspectives: contemporaneity and its global context; art against aesthetic; the Romantic pre-history of conceptual art; the multiplicity of modernisms; transcategoriality; conceptual abstraction; photographic ontology; digitalization; and the institutional and existential complexities of art-space and art-time. Anywhere or Not at All maps out the conceptual space for an art that is both critical and contemporary in the era of global capitalism.

    Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA)

    About Anywhere or Not at All

    A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of Time

    Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Developing the position that “contemporary art is postconceptual art,” the book progresses through a dual series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of particular works to assess the art from a number of perspectives: contemporaneity and its global context; art against aesthetic; the Romantic pre-history of conceptual art; the multiplicity of modernisms; transcategoriality; conceptual abstraction; photographic ontology; digitalization; and the institutional and existential complexities of art-space and art-time. Anywhere or Not at All maps out the conceptual space for an art that is both critical and contemporary in the era of global capitalism.

    Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA)

    Also by Peter Osborne

    Crisis as Form
    The Postconceptual Condition
    The Politics of Time
    See all books by Peter Osborne

    Also by Peter Osborne

    Crisis as Form
    The Postconceptual Condition
    The Politics of Time
    See all books by Peter Osborne

    Product Details

    Category: Art | Philosophy

    Paperback | $29.95
    Published by Verso
    Jun 04, 2013 | 256 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781781680940

    Category: Art | Philosophy

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Jun 04, 2013 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781781683354
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