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The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (Paperback, New edition)
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The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The MIT Press
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An exploration of transformations in the nature of the art object
and artistic authorship in the last four decades. In this book,
Martha Buskirk addresses the interesting fact that since the early
1960s, almost anything can and has been called art. Among other
practices, contemporary artists have employed mass-produced
elements, impermanent materials, and appropriated imagery, have
incorporated performance and video, and have created works through
instructions carried out by others. Furthermore, works of art that
lack traditional signs of authenticity or permanence have been
embraced by institutions long devoted to the original and the
permanent. Buskirk begins with questions of authorship raised by
minimalists' use of industrial materials and methods, including
competing claims of ownership and artistic authorship evident in
conflicts over the right to fabricate artists' works. Examining
recent examples of appropriation, she finds precedents in pop art
and the early twentieth-century readymade and explores the
intersection of contemporary artistic copying and the system of
copyrights, trademarks, and brand names characteristic of other
forms of commodity production. She also investigates the ways that
connections between work and context have transformed art and
institutional conventions, the impact of new materials on
definitions of medium, the role of the document as both primary and
secondary object, and the significance of conceptually oriented
performance work for the intersection of photography and the human
body in contemporary art. Buskirk explores how artists active in
the 1980s and 1990s have recombined strategies of the art of the
1960s and 1970s. She also shows how the mechanisms through which
art is presented shape not only readings of the work but the work
itself. She uses her discussion of the readymade and conceptual art
to explore broader issues of authorship, reproduction, context, and
temporality.
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