Art Is a Problem: Selected Criticism, Essays, Interviews and Curatorial Projects (1986-2012)

Author/Contributor(s):	Decter, Joshua
Publisher:	Jrpeditions
Date:	03/31/2014
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts and reviews, spanning 1986-2012, Joshua Decter examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts. The book encompasses seven chapters: Institutional Critique(R) and its Discontents; Aporia (art as politics, the politics of art); Everything is Social; Convoluted Cities; The (Un)De-definition of Art; What Do We Want from Exhibitions?; and On the Curatorial Road. The author unpacks art's paradoxical condition: art problematizes, and is intrinsically a problem. From this standpoint, he analyzes art's definitions, functions, ethical entanglements, societal aspirations and cultural contradictions.