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Visual cultures as seriousness by Gavin Butt, Irit Rogoff is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Visual cultures as seriousness about?

The contemporary art world has become more inhospitable to serious intellectual activity in recent years. Critical discourse has been increasingly instrumentalized in the service of neoliberal art markets and institutions, and artists are pressurized by the demands of popularity and funding bodies. Set against this context, Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff raise the question of seriousness in art and culture. What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures? Butt and Rogoff reflect on such questions through historical and theoretical lenses, and explore whether or not it might be possible to pursue knowledge and value in contemporary culture without recourse to high-brow gravitas. Can certain art formssuch as performance artsuggest ways in which we might be intelligent without being serious? And can one be serious in the art world without returning to established assumptions about the high-mindedness of the public intellectual? Copublished with Goldsmiths, University of London

Who reads Visual cultures as seriousness?

Author

Gavin Butt, Irit Rogoff

Publisher

Goldsmiths, University of London ; Sternberg Press, [2013]

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9783943365399

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Arts