Contemporary art is a very different kind of art from anything that
has ever been practiced in the past. It is an art that takes place
after the age of metaphysics, when all the imaginary significations
that once used to anchor art in traditional meaning systems have
disintegrated. Today's artist, consequently, is left with a rubble
heap of broken meaning systems, discarded signifiers and semiotic
vacancies that must be sifted through in a quest for new meanings
appropriate to an age that has been reshaped by globalization.
Through discussions of the works of artists such as Damien Hirst,
Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski and many others,
John David Ebert attempts to fathom the nature of what it means to
be an artist in a post-metaphysical age in which all certainties of
meaning have collapsed.
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