Art and Posthumanism

Name: Art and Posthumanism
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9781517912826
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Essays, Encounters, Conversations

Autor: Cary Wolfe

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: University of Minnesota Press

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A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and respons...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Cary Wolfe

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2021

strony

248

EAN

9781517912826

ISBN

1517912822

Enbook ID

36975312

Wydawca

University of Minnesota Press

Waga

448

Wymiary

140 x 216 x 25

Pełny opis

A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the question of “life” that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of the relationship between the human and the planet upside down. Wolfe explores a wide range of contemporary artworks-from Sue Coe’s illustrations of animals in factory farms and Eduardo Kac’s bioart to the famous performance pieces of Joseph Bueys and the video installations of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, among others-examining how posthumanist theory can illuminate, and be illuminated by, artists’ engagement with the more-than-human world. Looking at biological and social systems, the question of the animal, and biopolitics, Art and Posthumanism explores how contemporary art rivets our attention on the empirically thick, emotionally charged questions of “life” and the “living” amid ecological catastrophe. One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Wolfe pushes that philosophy out of the realm of the purely theoretical to show how a posthumanist engagement with particular works and their conceptual underpinnings help to develop more potent ethical and political commitments.

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