{"title":"Peter Osborne","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Osborne’s works explore the dynamic intersections of philosophy, art, and contemporary culture, offering profound insights into how crises can shape cultural forms. His writing challenges readers to reconsider the frameworks through which we understand social and aesthetic experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles such as \u003cem\u003eCrisis as Form\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSpheres of Action\u003c\/em\u003e, Osborne invites a deep engagement with critical theory and cultural philosophy, making his collection essential for those interested in the evolving discourse of arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"spheres-of-action-by-peter-osborne-9781854379757","title":"Spheres of Action","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary art is increasingly part of a wider network of cultural practices, related through a common set of references in cultural theory. Within Europe, relations between national theoretical traditions have become more fluid and dynamic, generating an increasingly transnational space of European cultural and art theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpheres of Action\u003c\/em\u003e offers a snapshot of recent influential work in contemporary art and political theory in France, Italy, and Germany, in the form of original writings by major representatives of each of the three overlapping national traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn France, debates centre on the status and possibilities of the image. Eric Alliez, Georges Didi-Huberman, Elisabeth Lebovici, and Jacques Rancière each adopt a competing approach to the making, undoing, and remaking of aesthetic images in contemporary art and their political significance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Italy, Antonio Negri, Maurizio Lazzarato, Judith Revel, and Franco Berardi each address the 'immaterial' situation of contemporary art in a distinctive way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Germany, Peter Sloterdijk, Peter Weibel, and Boris Groys reassess the contemporary legacy of post-war art, demonstrating distinctive appropriations of vitalism, structuralism, and deconstruction, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487535644908,"sku":"9781854379757","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/aba0c24b694ff133dd712bf845d73189.jpg?v=1775774703"},{"product_id":"crisis-as-form-by-peter-osborne-9781839763625","title":"Crisis as Form","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriticism of contemporary art is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, more subterranean terms of art judgment are largely neglected on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese essays combine a re-examination of the terms of judgement of contemporary art with critical interpretations of individual works and exhibitions by Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp, Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof, and Cady Noland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrisis as Form\u003c\/em\u003e moves from philosophical issues, via the lingering shadows of medium-specificity (in photography and art music), and the changing states of museums, to analyses of the peculiar ways that works of art relate to time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo give artistic form to crisis, it is suggested, one needs to understand contemporary art’s own constitutive crisis of form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596069454060,"sku":"9781839763625","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c7388d72125dae52e1b2fbe2c13e6efd.jpg?v=1777936978"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/peter-osborne.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}