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Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art) by Barthes, Roland is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art) about?
Art that seeks to produce situations in which relations are formed among viewers is placed in historical and theoretical context in key writings by critics and artists. The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships. Guy Debord's celebrated argument that capitalism fragments the social bond has become the premise for much relational art seeking to challenge and provide alternatives to the discontents of contemporary life. This publication collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context. Participation begins with writings that provide a theoretical framework for relational art, with essays by Umberto Eco, Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, Peter Bürger, Jen-Luc Nancy, Edoaurd Glissant, and Félix Guattari, as well as the first translation into English of Jacques Ra
Who reads Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barthes, Roland
- Publisher
- Whitechapel Gallery The MIT Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780854881475
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Art, History, Arts
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (240 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13