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Dystopian And Utopian Impulses In Art Making : The World We Want
Hardback Edition: 1
An exploration of diverse art practices that attempt to offer new ways of understanding and being in the world.
This collection of written and visual essays includes artistic responses to various crisesincluding the climate emergency, global and local inequalities, and the COVID-19 pandemicand suggests new forms of collectivity and collaboration within artistic practice. It surveys a wide variety of practices, oriented from the perspective of Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. Art making has always responded to the world; the essays in this collection explore how artists are adapting to a world in crisis. The contributions to this book are arranged in four sections: artistic responses; critical reflections, new curatorial approaches, and the art school reimagined. Alongside the written chapters, three photographic essays provide specific examples of new visual forms in artistic practice under crisis conditions.
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Publication date : 2023-02-10
Pages : 408
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the USA, Art/design/film, Art & Artists, The Arts: General Issues