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Systems we have loved : conceptual art, affect, and the antihumanist turn /

By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meltzer, Eve (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approach to art making. Examining the ways in which artists shared the structuralist devotion to systems of many sorts, Systems We Have Loved shows that even as structuralism encouraged the advent of conceptual art, it also raised intractable problems that artists were forced to confront.>
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations (some color
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:022600791X
9780226007915
1299737641
9781299737648