Barry Schwabsky

The Perpetual Guest (eBook, ePUB)

Art in the Unfinished Present

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary art sometimes pretends to have made a clean break with history. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of art's present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past.

Surveying the art world of recent decades, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer faces-among them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei, Chris Ofili, and Lorna Simpson-but their forebears as well, both near (Jeff Wall, Nancy Spero, Dan Graham, Cindy Sherman) and more distant (Vel¿zquez, Manet, Matisse, and the portraitists of the Renaissance).

Schwabsky's rich and subtle contributions illuminate art's present moment in all its complexity: shot through with determinations produced by centuries of interwoven traditions, but no less open-ended for it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784783266
• Artikelnr.: 50029109

Autorenporträt

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for the Nation and coeditor of international reviews for Artforum and has contributed to many publications including theLondon Review of Books and New Left Review. His previous books includeWords for Art: History, Criticism, Theory, Practice, a collection of essays on art writing and art writers, as well as several volumes of poetry. He lives in New York.

Rezensionen

Like many of the best critics, Schwabsky has the ability to describe things so precisely that no explicit evaluation is necessary. Every time an idea is introduced, it is allowed to hold the reader's attention for the time it takes to ground a judgment, and no longer. Malcolm Bull, author of Anti-Nietzsche and University Lecturer in Fine Art at Oxford University