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Boredom (Documents of Contemporary Art)
Tom Mcdonough
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Description for Boredom (Documents of Contemporary Art)
Paperback. Part of the acclaimed series of anthologies which document major themes and ideas in contemporary art. Series: Documents of Contemporary Art. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 210 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialisation, mass politics and consumerism. From Manet onwards, when art represents the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are inevitable. And from modernism's retreat into abstraction to subsequent demands placed on audiences, from the late 1960s to the present, the viewer's endurance of repetition, slowness or other forms of monotony has become an anticipated feature of gallery-going. In contemporary art, boredom is no longer viewed as a singular experience; rather, it is contingent on diverse social identifications and cultural positions, and extends from ... Read more
Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialisation, mass politics and consumerism. From Manet onwards, when art represents the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are inevitable. And from modernism's retreat into abstraction to subsequent demands placed on audiences, from the late 1960s to the present, the viewer's endurance of repetition, slowness or other forms of monotony has become an anticipated feature of gallery-going. In contemporary art, boredom is no longer viewed as a singular experience; rather, it is contingent on diverse social identifications and cultural positions, and extends from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Whitechapel Gallery
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Documents of Contemporary Art
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780854882526
SKU
V9780854882526
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About Tom Mcdonough
Tom McDonough is Associate Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His books include'The Beautiful Language of My Century': Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 (2007).
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