Disordered Attention - How We Look at Art and Performance

The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty venues. There are endless artworks about mid-century architecture and design. How are we expected to engage with today's diverse practise? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling? Across four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - and their challenges to traditional modes of attention. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	8 June 2024
Authors:	Claire Bishop
Dimensions:	210 x 140mm (L x W)
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-80429-288-4
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-80429-288-5
Barcode:	9781804292884

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