Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique
Year: 2009
Type: book
Abstract: Art and Contemporary Critical Practice Gerald Raunig and Gene Ray (eds) 'Institutional critique' is best known through the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who presented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system. Since then it has been pushed in new directions by new generations of artists registering and responding to the global transformations of contemporary life. The essays collected in this volume explore this legacy and develop the models of institutional critique in ways that go well beyond the fi eld of art. Interrogating the shifting relations between 'institutions' and 'critique', the contributors to this volume analyze the past and present of institutional critique and propose lines of future development. E ngaging with the work of philosophers and political theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno and others, these essays refl ect on the mutual enrichments between critical art practices and social movements and elaborate the conditions for politicized critical practice in the twenty-fi rst century.
Source: HAL
Authors: Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1510965067