Industry and intelligence : contemporary art since 1820 / Liam Gillick.

Author
Gillick, Liam, 1964- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Description
xv, 140 pages, 50 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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    Series
    Bampton lectures in America [More in this series]
    Summary note
    In this book, the author writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events.--From the publisher.
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: creative disruption in the age of soft revolutions
    • Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place
    • Projection and parallelism
    • art as a pile: split and fragmented simultaneously
    • 1820: Erasmus and upheaval
    • ASAP futures, not infinite future
    • 1948: B. F. Skinner and counter-revolutio
    • Abstract
    • 1963: Herman Kahn and projection
    • The complete curator
    • Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three?
    • The return of the border
    • 1974: Volvo and the mise-en-scène
    • The experimental factory
    • Nostalgia for the group
    • Why work?.
    ISBN
    • 9780231170208 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0231170203 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0231540965
    • 9780231540964
    LCCN
    2015020970
    OCLC
    913829497
    Doi
    • 10.7312/gill17020
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