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Title:
Relational aesthetics / Nicolas Bourriaud ; translated by Simon Pleasance & Fronza Woods with the participation of Mathieu Copeland.
Author:
Bourriaud, Nicolas.
Publication Information:
[Dijon] : Les Presses du réel, c2002.
Call Number:
N6490 .B643313 2002
ISBN:
9782840660606
Series:
Collection Documents sur l'art

Collection Documents sur l'art.
Physical Description:
125 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Relational form. Contemporary artistic practice and its cultural plan ; Artwork as social interstice ; Relational aesthetics and random materialism ; Form and others' gaze -- Art of the 1990s. Participation and transitivity ; Typology ; Connections and meetings ; Convivialities and encounters ; Collaborations and contracts ; Professional relations : clienteles ; How to occupy a gallery -- Space-time exchange factors. Artworks and exchanges ; The subject of the artwork ; Space-time factors in 1990s' art -- Joint presence and availability : the theoretical legacy of Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Homosexuality as a paradigm of cohabitation ; Contemporary forms of the monument ; The criterion of co-existence (works and individuals) ; The aura of artworks has shifted towards their public ; Beauty as a solution? -- Screen relations. Today's art and its technological models ; Art and goods ; The law of relocation ; Technology as an ideological model (from trace to programme) ; The camera and the exhibition ; The exhibition-set ; Extras ; Post VCR art ; Rewind/play/fast forward ; Towards a democratisation of viewpoints? -- Towards a policy of forms. Cohabitations : notes on some possible extensions of a relational aesthetics ; Visual systems ; The image is a moment ; What artists show ; The boundaries of individual subjectivity ; The engineering of intersubjectivity ; An art with no effect? ; The political development of forms ; Rehabilitating experimentation ; Relational aesthetics and constructed situations ; The aesthetic paradigm (Félix Guattari and art) ; Subjectivity pursued and produced ; De-naturalising subjectivity ; Status and operation of subjectivity ; Subjectivization units ; The aesthetic paradigm ; The critique of scientistic paradigm ; Ritournelle, symptom and work ; The work of art as partial object ; For an artistic-ecosophical practice ; The behavioural economy of present-day art.
Uniform Title:
Esthétique relationnelle. English
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