Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art -

Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art

Buch | Hardcover
284 Seiten
2024
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-906-7 (ISBN)
137,10 inkl. MwSt
An edited collection consisting of essays and artworks by distinguished and emerging theorists, artists, and scholars. It explains how our contemporary moment is absurd and how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary.35 b&w illus.
Some have called this an age of absurdity, and as such Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art presents the contributions of artists, theorists, and scholars whose words and works investigate the absurd as a condition of, a tactic for, and a subject in the contemporary.



The absurd is a lens on the disturbances of our moment and a challenge to the propositions about and solutions for the world. The absurd shakes off the paralysis that what we know must be the only thing we (re)produce. Those willing to recognize that and confront it, rather than flee from it, are thereby introduced to the political writ large.



This edited collection adopts ideas and practices associated with the absurd to explain how the contemporary moment is absurd and how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary.

Critical art allows the absurd a space within which audiences can observe their own tendencies and assumptions. The absurd in art reveals our inculcation into hegemonic belief structures and the necessity to question the systems to which we subscribe. Today we see the absurd in memes, performative politics, and art, expressing the

confusion and disorientation wrought by the endless, emerging crises of our 24/7 relations.

Katherine Guinness is assistant professor of critical studies in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Charlotte Kent is associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University, editor-at large for The Brooklyn Rail, and an arts writer.

List of Figures 



Introduction 



 



1. Anatomical Bitransversal Symmetry Axiswerks: Inter-orificial Economics of Evolutionary Body Plan Development

Adam Zaretsky



2. Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape: Revised and Redacted

Andy Holden



3. Landscape Fictions and Future Realities

Aroussiak Gabrielian



4. Why I Should Learn From Our Masters!

Bager Akbay



5. The Absurd Isn’t It Ironic? A Vestigial Tale : ‘Vestigial Tale’ About 6740 Google Results

Carla Gannis



6. The Absurd and an Agonistic Opportunity

Charlotte Kent



7. Eight Variants of Tactical Absurdity in (Post)Conceptual Art: An Overperformance of Typological Exactitude

Dave Ball



8. The Weird and the Absurd

Graham Harman



9. Absurd Temporalities

Grant Bollmer



10. Reflections on Camus’ Absurd

Jennifer Lyn Morone



11. Feeling is Funny

Katherine Guinness



12. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Amy Coney Barrett Cross-Examined Absurdly by the Medusan French Feminist Philosopher Hélène Cixous

Maggie Hennefeld



13. From Planetary Core to the High Seas

Mary Mattingly



14. Exulting in the Ab-surd: Artaud to Arp

Mary Ann Caws



 



Appendix: The Janks Collective Archives

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 35 Halftones, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-78938-906-2 / 1789389062
ISBN-13 978-1-78938-906-7 / 9781789389067
Zustand Neuware
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