Intelligent Action
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Intelligent Action

A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia

  1. 185 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Intelligent Action

A History of Artistic Research, Aesthetic Experience, and Artists in Academia

About this book

Through archival research and analysis of artworks by Gyorgy Kepes, Allan Kaprow, Mel Bochner, and Suzanne Lacy, among others, Intelligent Action examines how these artists brought alternatives to dominant conceptions of research and knowledge production. The book is organized around specific institutional formations—artistic research centers, proposals, exhibitions on college campuses, and the establishment of new schools or pedagogic programs. Formal and social analysis demonstrate how artists responded to ideas of research, knowledge production, information, and pedagogy. Works discussed were produced between 1958 and 1975, a moment when boundaries between media were breaking down in response to technological, cultural, and generational change. In the context of academia, these artistic practices have taken up the look, feel, or language of various research and teaching practices. In some cases, artists bent to the demands of the cold war research university, while in others, artists developed new modes of practice and pedagogy. Reading these works through their institutional histories, author Tim Ridlen shows how artistic research practices and artistic subjectivity developed in the long 1960s within and alongside academia, transforming the role of artists in the process.

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Information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781978837706
9781978837713
eBook ISBN
9781978837720
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The New Academic: Artistic Research at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies
  8. 2. Aesthetic Experience: Allan Kaprow, Robert Watts, and George Brecht at Rutgers University
  9. 3. Decentering Aesthetic Experience: Art in Process at Finch College
  10. 4. The Artist as Researcher: John Baldessari, the Feminist Art Program, and Allan Kaprow at CalArts
  11. Epilogue
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Notes
  14. Index
  15. About the Author

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