{"title":"Series: Documents of Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eDocuments of Contemporary Art\u003c\/strong\u003e series explores the ideas that shape our world across a wide spectrum of subjects, from philosophy and psychology to business, finance, and technology. These titles invite readers to engage with critical concepts and debates that define modern thought and practice, offering fresh perspectives on everything from ethical investing to contemporary art theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find works that challenge conventional wisdom and encourage deeper reflection, whether delving into history, health, or travel. With a diverse range of topics, this collection is ideal for those seeking thoughtful, incisive explorations of the forces influencing today's cultural and intellectual landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"speculation-9780854882991","title":"Speculation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life, whose key instantiations are art and finance. Both are premised on the power of contingency, temporality, and experiment in the creation (and capitalisation) of possible worlds. Artistic autonomy, and the self-legislation of the space of art, was once and often still is seen as the freedom to speculate wildly on material and social possibilities, with the artist as a speculative subject seen as the paragon of creativity—the complete opposite of the bean-counter obsessed with balance sheets and value-added.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, once social reality becomes speculative and opaque in its own right, risky and algorithmic, overhauled by networked markets in everything, what becomes of the distinction between not just art and finance, but art and life?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis new anthology surveys material and social inventiveness from the ground up: speculating with constructs of the family, speculating with technologies, speculating with gender, and speculating with systems of logistics and co-ordination. An ecology of speculation is traced, as broken, specific, and enthralling as the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArtists surveyed include Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Ludwiński, Cameron Rowland, Salvage Art Institute, Andy Warhol, Mi You, PiraMMMida, and Sam Lewitt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriters include Lisa Adkins, Ramon Amaro, Brenna Bhandar, Octavia Butler, Cédric Durand, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sophie Lewis, Dougal Dixon, Stanislaw Lem, Isabelle Stengers and Phillip Pignarre, Steven Shaviro, Can Xue, and Daniel Spaulding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432623489260,"sku":"9780854882991","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780854882991.jpg?v=1774555197"},{"product_id":"the-cute-9780854882984","title":"The Cute","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cute\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw. From robots and cat videos to ice cream socials, \u003ci\u003eThe Cute\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ramifications of an aesthetic 'of' or 'about' minorness—or what is perceived to be diminutive, subordinate, and above all, unthreatening—on the shifting forms and contents of art today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis anthology is the first of its kind to show how contemporary artists have worked on and transformed the cute, and in ways that not only complexify its meaning, but also reshape their own artistic practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtists surveyed include:\u003c\/strong\u003e Peggy Ahwesh, Cosima Von Bonin, Nayland Blake, Paul Chan, Henry Darger, Adrian Howells, Juliana Huxtable, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Dean Kenning, Wyndham Lewis, Jeff Koons, Sean-Kierre Lyons, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Tala Madani, Annette Messager, Mariko Mori, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Rottenberg, Allen Ruppersberg, Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and Yoshitomo Nara.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWriters include Sasha Archibald, Roland Barthes, Leigh Claire La Berge, Ian Bogost, Lauren Berlant, Jennifer Doyle, Lee Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Bridget Minamore, Juliane Rebentisch, Frances Richard, John Roberts, Friedrich Schiller, Peter Schjeldahl, and Kanako Shiokawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455757730028,"sku":"9780854882984","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61n8dnbxUVL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774796962"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-documents-of-contemporary-art.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}