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Contextual art. Artistic creation in an urban setting, in context, through intervention, and participation. Champs Arts Collection.
ARDENNE Paul.

Contextual art. Artistic creation in an urban setting, in context, through intervention, and participation. Champs Arts Collection.

Flammarion
€10,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25709
Format 11 x 17.5
Détails 256 p., illustrated, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2002
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782081225138
From the beginning of the 20th century , many artists abandoned the territory of idealism, rejected traditional forms of representation en masse and deserted institutional spaces to immerse themselves in the order of concrete things. Reality became a primary concern, with, as a consequence, a reshaping of the "art world", from the gallery to the museum, from the market to the concept of art itself. New artistic practices and forms then emerge: intervention art and committed art of an activist nature, art investing urban space or landscape, participatory or active aesthetics in the fields of economy, media, or entertainment. The artist becomes an involved social actor, often disruptive. As for the work of art, it adopts a resolutely new, problematic turn, more than ever in relation to the world as it is. It calls for the enhancement of raw reality, precisely to "context". Art becomes contextual. It is this inflection, characteristic of modern and then contemporary art, that the author discusses with us by delivering the first synthesis on the subject. He favors concrete examples but also the questions that these practices do not fail to raise.
From the beginning of the 20th century , many artists abandoned the territory of idealism, rejected traditional forms of representation en masse and deserted institutional spaces to immerse themselves in the order of concrete things. Reality became a primary concern, with, as a consequence, a reshaping of the "art world", from the gallery to the museum, from the market to the concept of art itself. New artistic practices and forms then emerge: intervention art and committed art of an activist nature, art investing urban space or landscape, participatory or active aesthetics in the fields of economy, media, or entertainment. The artist becomes an involved social actor, often disruptive. As for the work of art, it adopts a resolutely new, problematic turn, more than ever in relation to the world as it is. It calls for the enhancement of raw reality, precisely to "context". Art becomes contextual. It is this inflection, characteristic of modern and then contemporary art, that the author discusses with us by delivering the first synthesis on the subject. He favors concrete examples but also the questions that these practices do not fail to raise.