Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance - How We Look at Art and Performance
Verlag | Durnell Marston |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 288 |
Format | 15,0 x 2,1 x 22,0 cm |
Gewicht | 351 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781804292884 |
Bestell-Nr | 80429288UA |
How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art
Klappentext:
The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty venues. There are endless artworks about mid-century architecture and design. How are we expected to engage with today's diverse practise? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling? Across four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - and their challenges to traditional modes of attention. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.