Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvKatherine Guinness,Charlotte Kent,USA) Kent, Charlotte (Montclair State University

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Some have called this an age of absurdity, and as such Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art presents the contributions of artists, theorists, and scholars whose words and works investigate the absurd as a condition of, a tactic for, and a subject in the contemporary.The absurd is a lens on the disturbances of our moment and a challenge to the propositions about and solutions for the world. The absurd shakes off the paralysis that what we know must be the only thing we (re)produce. Those willing to recognize that and confront it, rather than flee from it, are thereby introduced to the political writ large.This edited collection adopts ideas and practices associated with the absurd to explain how the contemporary moment is absurd and how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary.Critical art allows the absurd a space within which audiences can observe their own tendencies and assumptions. The absurd in art reveals our inculcation into hegemonic belief structures and the necessity to question the systems to which we subscribe. Today we see the absurd in memes, performative politics, and art, expressing theconfusion and disorientation wrought by the endless, emerging crises of our 24/7 relations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-10-07
Mått170 x 244 x 22 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor284
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781789389067

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List of Figures Introduction 1. Anatomical Bitransversal Symmetry Axiswerks: Inter-orificial Economics of Evolutionary Body Plan DevelopmentAdam Zaretsky2. Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape: Revised and Redacted Andy Holden3. Landscape Fictions and Future RealitiesAroussiak Gabrielian4. Why I Should Learn From Our Masters!Bager Akbay5. The Absurd Isn’t It Ironic? A Vestigial Tale : ‘Vestigial Tale’ About 6740 Google ResultsCarla Gannis6. The Absurd and an Agonistic OpportunityCharlotte Kent7. Eight Variants of Tactical Absurdity in (Post)Conceptual Art: An Overperformance of Typological ExactitudeDave Ball8. The Weird and the AbsurdGraham Harman9. Absurd TemporalitiesGrant Bollmer10. Reflections on Camus’ AbsurdJennifer Lyn Morone11. Feeling is FunnyKatherine Guinness12. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Amy Coney Barrett Cross-Examined Absurdly by the Medusan French Feminist Philosopher Hélène CixousMaggie Hennefeld13. From Planetary Core to the High SeasMary Mattingly14. Exulting in the Ab-surd: Artaud to ArpMary Ann Caws Appendix: The Janks Collective Archives