| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
After the Breakdown: Sixty Years of Systems Art -- Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott -- Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics -- Jack Burnham Redux: Reappraising Systems Aesthetics -- Luke Skrebowski -- The Artist as "Weatherman": Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology -- John Tyson -- Desalineacion: Open Systems as Social Transformation in Tucuma̹n Arde -- Christine Filippone -- Nervous Interfaces -- The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines -- Kris Cohen -- Light and Space as Institutional Critique -- Dawna Schuld -- One among Many: Experiencing Complexity in Participatory Art Systems -- Cristina Albu -- The Contemporary Art World Described as a System -- Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: Liam Gillick's Disappointing Systems -- Francis Halsall -- Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: Mel Chin's The Arctic Is . . . -- Amanda Boetzkes -- Mapping, SEA STATE, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore -- Brianne Cohen -- Toward Infrastructure Art: Containerization, Black Box Logistics, and New Distribution -- Complexes -- Jaimey Hamilton Faris |
| Summary |
"The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
systems aesthetics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Art -- Philosophy.
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Aesthetics.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Social aspects
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Political aspects
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Art criticism.
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art criticism.
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ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
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ART / Criticism & Theory.
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Aesthetics
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Art criticism
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Art, Modern
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Art, Modern -- Political aspects
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Art, Modern -- Social aspects
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Art -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gosse, Johanna, 1985- editor.
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Stott, Tim, 1975- editor.
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Rodenbeck, Judith F., writer of foreword.
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| LC no. |
2021014277 |
| ISBN |
1478022051 |
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9781478022053 |
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