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Conversations before the end of time / Suzi Gablik.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1995Description: 477 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0500016739
  • 9780500016732
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.103
LOC classification:
  • NX456.5.P66 G3 1995
  • N72.S6 G23 1995
Contents:
Introduction -- What Is Art For? -- Doin' Dirt Time -- Making Art About Centipedes -- No Art in the Lifeboats -- Ten Thousand Artists, Not One Master -- Creating the Space for a Miracle -- When You're Healed, Send Me a Postcard -- You Don't Have to Have a Penis to Be a Genius -- Viewing the World as Process -- Breaking Out of the White Cube -- Searching For the Essence of Art -- Removing the Frame -- Two Undiscovered Aborigines Dancing on the Wound of History -- A Few Beautifully Made Things -- Our Students Need the City -- The Liminal Zones of Soul -- The Aesthetics of Everyday Life -- Adrift on the Fickle Seas of the Art World -- A Farewell to Modernism -- Selected Bibliography.
Summary: When "the end of time" seems close at hand, what meaning or purpose can art possibly have? In this challenging series of dialogues with nineteen artists, writers, philosophers and critics, art critic Suzi Gablik addresses these and other central questions about the meaning and future of art in an age of accelerating social change and spiritual uncertainty. In conversations that are by turns intense, personal, philosophical, intimate and poignant, Hilton Kramer and Leo.Summary: Castelli staunchly defend modernism's traditional isolation of art from political and social issues; sculptors Rachel Dutton and Rob Olds and performance artist Coco Fusco explore new kinds of art-making in an attempt to reconnect with the contemporary world; and Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and archetypal psychologist James Hillman show how art's present crisis of meaning is tied to the broader context of our contemporary social and spiritual crises.Summary: Conversations Before the End of Time combines the incisive analysis of Suzi Gablik's previous criticism with the interactive creativity of the meeting of seminal minds; For anyone seriously concerned about the future of contemporary art and culture, it is both a sourcebook and an inspiration.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-477).

Introduction -- What Is Art For? -- Doin' Dirt Time -- Making Art About Centipedes -- No Art in the Lifeboats -- Ten Thousand Artists, Not One Master -- Creating the Space for a Miracle -- When You're Healed, Send Me a Postcard -- You Don't Have to Have a Penis to Be a Genius -- Viewing the World as Process -- Breaking Out of the White Cube -- Searching For the Essence of Art -- Removing the Frame -- Two Undiscovered Aborigines Dancing on the Wound of History -- A Few Beautifully Made Things -- Our Students Need the City -- The Liminal Zones of Soul -- The Aesthetics of Everyday Life -- Adrift on the Fickle Seas of the Art World -- A Farewell to Modernism -- Selected Bibliography.

When "the end of time" seems close at hand, what meaning or purpose can art possibly have? In this challenging series of dialogues with nineteen artists, writers, philosophers and critics, art critic Suzi Gablik addresses these and other central questions about the meaning and future of art in an age of accelerating social change and spiritual uncertainty. In conversations that are by turns intense, personal, philosophical, intimate and poignant, Hilton Kramer and Leo.

Castelli staunchly defend modernism's traditional isolation of art from political and social issues; sculptors Rachel Dutton and Rob Olds and performance artist Coco Fusco explore new kinds of art-making in an attempt to reconnect with the contemporary world; and Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and archetypal psychologist James Hillman show how art's present crisis of meaning is tied to the broader context of our contemporary social and spiritual crises.

Conversations Before the End of Time combines the incisive analysis of Suzi Gablik's previous criticism with the interactive creativity of the meeting of seminal minds; For anyone seriously concerned about the future of contemporary art and culture, it is both a sourcebook and an inspiration.

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