Art and subjecthood : the return of the human figure in semiocapitalism /
editors Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2011.
"This book is based on the conference 'Art and subjecthood: the return of the human figure in semiocapitalism' ... organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik on July 1, 2011, at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste/Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main"--P. 6.
Philosophical toys and psychoanalytic travesties : anthropomorphic avatars in Dada and at the Bauhaus / Response to Hal Foster / Body doubles / Response to Caroline Busta / Contemporary art, daily / Response to Michael Sanchez / Media animism : Rachel Harrison's living images / Response to Ina Blom / Mad garland / Hal Foster -- Stefan Deines -- Caroline Busta -- Stefanie Heraeus -- Michael Sanchez -- Magdalena Nieslony -- Ina Blom -- Oliver Brokel -- Jutta Koether.
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?
9781934105757
Human figure in art--21st century--Congresses.
Anthropomorphism in art--21st century--Congresses.
Minimal art--21st century--Congresses.
Art and anthropology--21st century--Congresses.
Art and society--21st century--Congresses.
Art--Historiography--21st century--Congresses.
700 / GRA 2011
"This book is based on the conference 'Art and subjecthood: the return of the human figure in semiocapitalism' ... organized by the Institut für Kunstkritik on July 1, 2011, at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste/Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main"--P. 6.
Philosophical toys and psychoanalytic travesties : anthropomorphic avatars in Dada and at the Bauhaus / Response to Hal Foster / Body doubles / Response to Caroline Busta / Contemporary art, daily / Response to Michael Sanchez / Media animism : Rachel Harrison's living images / Response to Ina Blom / Mad garland / Hal Foster -- Stefan Deines -- Caroline Busta -- Stefanie Heraeus -- Michael Sanchez -- Magdalena Nieslony -- Ina Blom -- Oliver Brokel -- Jutta Koether.
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?
9781934105757
Human figure in art--21st century--Congresses.
Anthropomorphism in art--21st century--Congresses.
Minimal art--21st century--Congresses.
Art and anthropology--21st century--Congresses.
Art and society--21st century--Congresses.
Art--Historiography--21st century--Congresses.
700 / GRA 2011
