TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hudek,Antony
TI  - The object
T2  - Documents of contemporary art
SN  - 0262525763
AV  - BH301.O24 O245 2014
U1  - 111.85 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London, Cambridge, Massachesetts
PB  - Whitechapel Gallery, The MIT Press
KW  - Object (Aesthetics)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; Subject, object, thing --; Everyday objects, useful objects --; Found objects, lost objects, non-objects --; Discursive objects, affective objects --; Event, object, performance --; Biographical notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgements
N2  - "Artists increasingly refer to "post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on "object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the "objectness" of production, with art as its focus. Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the object's transition from inert mass to tool or artifact; and the meanings of the everyday in the found object, repetition in the replicated or multiple object, loss in the absent object, and abjection in the formless or degraded object. It also explores artistic positions that are anti-object; theories of the experimental, liminal or mental object; and the role of objects in performance. The object becomes a prism through which to reread contemporary art and better understand its recent past." -- Publisher's description
ER  -