les presses du réel

Art and SubjecthoodThe Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism

 - Art and Subjecthood
Revival du vocabulaire minimaliste et retour à la figuration humaine dans l'art contemporain, à la lumière de la théorie du sémiocapitalisme de Franco Berardi.
Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This book brings together contributions from the eponymous conference, all of which seek to speculate on the reasons as to why, since the turn of the millennium, we have encountered so many artworks that tend to reconcile Minimalism with suggestions of the human figure. It proposes that this new artistic convention becomes rather questionable when discussed in the light of Franco Berardi's theory of semiocapitalism—a power technology that aims squarely at our human resources. The participants of this conference were asked to offer possible explanations for this wide acceptance of anthropomorphism—could it be that this is a manifestation of the increasingly desperate desire for art to have agency?
Publié suite à la conférence éponyme organisée à l'Institut für Kunstkritik de Frankfort en 2011.
Edité par Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum et Nikolaus Hirsch.
Textes de Ina Blom, Oliver Brokel, Caroline Busta, Stefan Deines, Hal Foster, Stefanie Heraeus, Jutta Koether, Magdalena Nieslony, Michael Sanchez.
 
paru en mars 2012
édition anglaise
12 x 19 cm (broché, sous jaquette)
98 pages (11 ill. n&b)
 
15.00
 
ISBN : 978-1-934105-75-7
EAN : 9781934105757
 
en stock
 
dossier de presse


 haut de page