Artwork as social model : a manual of questions and propositions / Stephen Willats.

Forming models about art -- The artwork as a product of society -- Pluralism in the function of art -- The social containment of art practice -- The mythology of creativity -- The stylism of the contemporary avant garde -- The formation of beliefs and attitudes about art -- The appropriation of art practice -- Universal meaning and transmissional networks -- The reality of relativity in meaning -- Inside the museum: the artwork as emulative icon -- Rethinking the iconography of art -- Proposing a social model of art practice -- The totally connected artwork -- Making the audience the rationale -- The contextualisation of art strategies -- Transforming the role of the art museum -- The artwork as a structure of events through time -- Artwork as the dynamic simulation of a social model -- The audience as participants -- Problem solving as a creator of insight -- Secret language -- The experience of determinism -- The expression of counter consciousness -- Representation of polemics -- Speculation and experience -- The diagram as a modelling tool -- Person to person people to people -- A social method of work -- Meeting of minds -- From marginal diversity -- Transformation and open networks.

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