How We Look at Art and Performance Today
Edición de la obra Disordered Attention
| Autor | Claire Bishop |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Verso Books |
| Fecha de publicación | 2024 |
| Lugar | London, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 265 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9781804292884 |
| OCLC | 1506912600 |
| LCCN | 2024000521 |
| Número de Cutter | B622d |
The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty venues. There are endless artworks about mid-century architecture and design. How are we expected to engage with today's diverse practise? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling? Across four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - and their challenges to traditional modes of attention. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.