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Art and knowledge after 1900
Interactions between modern art and thought
- 352 pages
- English
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About this book
This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms. The authors argue that art's incursion into other intellectual disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take seriously?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Modern art and spiritual knowledge
- 2 Twentieth-century revolutions in art and science
- 3 Psychoanalysis and art: a new theory of objects
- 4 Before the visual turn: twentieth-century historians and the uses of art
- 5 Knowledge, truth, history: contemporary art and the problem of art-historical periodisation
- 6 Art/Economics
- 7 Art and cybernetics: a new ontology for art
- 8 Art into society: organised labour, workplace sociology, and artmaking in 1970s Britain
- 9 Knowledge, nation, and colour in documentary photography
- 10 Art and biotechnology: on the limits and potential of interdisciplinary arts
- 11 Ethnic futurisms and contemporary art
- 12 The politics and aesthetics of climate emergency
- 13 Art and witnessing: the poetics and politics of testifying to environmental violence
- Index
- Plates