Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed

Elisabeth Schellekens is Chair Professor of Aesthetics at Uppsala University, Sweden.Davide Dal Sasso is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at Università di Torino, Italy.

• Introduction, Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Davide Dal Sasso (University of Turin, Italy)Statements, Martin Creed 1. Where in the (Art)World is Martin Creed?, David Davies (McGill University, Canada)2. Martin Creed’s ‘Workless’ Works of Art, Karen E. Gover (Harvard Law School, USA)3. S T U P I D A R T, Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick, UK)4. How Not to Be an Uncollectible Artist, Alessandra Donati (University of Milano-Bicocca and Nuova Accademia Belle Arti, Italy) and Anna Pirri Valentini (LUISS University and NABA-Nuova Accademia Belle Arti, Italy)5. An Expression of the Essential: Martin Creed and the Celebration of the Ordinary, Davide Dal Sasso (University of Turin, Italy)6. Martin Creed: Conceptual Art and More, Elisa Caldarola (University of Padova, Italy)7. The Logical and The Phenomenological in Martin Creed’s Chairs, Gregory Minissale (University of Auckland, New Zealand)8. Which ‘Martin Creed’? Or Switching from Insignificance to Significance, Clive Cazeaux (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK)9. Process Art as an Aesthetic Alternative: Martin Creed’s Glasgow Connection, Diego Mantoan (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)BibliographyIndex (name) Index (topics)

From the room filled with balloons to a crumpled piece of paper, Martin Creed’s art has both intrigued and infuriated his audiences. This thought-provoking volume peers beyond the controversy. The essays masterfully reveal the dilemmas at the centre of Creed’s art, and demonstrate what philosophically informed art criticism is today.