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Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures

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Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures by Dan Adler explores recent trends in contemporary assemblage sculpture, focusing on artworks that incorporate tainted, discarded materials linked to capitalist progress. The book offers aesthetic models to understand these sculptures' critical functions, with each chapter analysing a major exhibition, including Isa Genzken's "OIL" at the Venice Biennale and Rachel Harrison's "Consider the Lobster" at CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, sculpture, and critical theory, particularly those seeking deeper understanding of materiality and display in modern assemblage art.

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In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials – often things left on the side of the road – and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity.

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In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials—often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine—and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity.

Adler develops a range of aesthetic models through which these practices can be understood to function critically. Each chapter focuses on a single exhibition: Isa Genzken’s OIL (German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007), Geoffrey Farmer’s midcareer survey (Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, 2008), Rachel Harrison’s Consider the Lobster (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009), and Liz Magor’s The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2008).

Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies

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  • Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures
    In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials—often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine—and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic...
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Gloria Sutton, Northeastern University Art, praises the book as "an argument for paying more attention to the material conditions of sculpture—not as a return to formalism, but as a powerful and necessary tool to cut through the lingo of installation art and the capaciousness of digital culture."

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ISBN: 9781138479623

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 August 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 130

About the Author

Dan Adler is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at York University in Toronto.

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