{"product_id":"crisis-as-form-paperback","title":"Crisis as Form - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Osborne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow does contemporary art best respond to social crisis? Through reflection on its own crisis of form\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCriticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art-judgment are largely neglected on both sides. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays combine a re-examination of the terms of judgement of contemporary art with critical interpretations of individual works and exhibitions by Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp, Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof and Cady Noland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book moves from philosophical issues, via the lingering shadows of medium-specificity (in photography and art music), and the changing states of museums, to analyses of the peculiar ways that works of art relate to time.To give artistic form to crisis, it is suggested, one needs to understand contemporary art's own constitutive crisis of form.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Postconceptual Condition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9.22 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766306898208,"sku":"9781839763625","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/502ca87a12d00a52f9452487b1375432.webp?v=1780289845","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/crisis-as-form-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}