Larry Shiner: The Invention of Art: a Cultural History (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1700s, 1800s, aesthetics, art, art history, history
“With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.”
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2001
ISBN 0226753425, 9780226753423
xix+362 pages
Interview (Platypus Review, 2014)
Review: Mitch Avila (JAAC 2003).
Commentary: Luis Puelles Romero (Contrastes ES 2005), David Clowney (Contemporary Aesthetics 2008).
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Comment (0)Stephen Wright: Toward a Lexicon of Usership (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, language, theory, usership
“Toward a Lexicon of Usership serves as a toolkit for naming a new form of both artistic and political subjectivity – that of usership. Divided into words that Wright feels ‘should be retired’ such as expert culture, ownership and the disinterested spectator alongside ‘emergent concepts’ like 1:1 scale, loopholes and museum 3.0, Wright introduces ‘modes of usership’ that are becoming ever more prevalent and pertinent today: hacking, gaming and the final term of the lexicon – usership, to name just three.”
Published on the occasion of Museum of Arte Útil.
Publisher Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Dutch License
ISBN 9789490757144
68 pages
PDF, PDF
Excerpt from Polish edition
&&& Journal, 0: Tachophobia // Tachomania (2015)
Filed under journal | Tags: · accelerationism, aesthetics, art, philosophy, speed
“Issue 000 accentuates and renders visible the divergences and unexpected overlaps between “tachophobia” (fear of speed) and “tachomania” (obsession with speed), in the ongoing debates over accelerationism that have followed the publication of Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ “#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics”.”
With texts by Benjamin Noys, Ivan Niccolai, Tom McGlynn, Sam Sackeroff, and Chris Shambaugh.
Edited by Jason Adams, Mohammad Salemy, and Tony Yanick
Publisher &&& Publishing, Spring 2015