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- ISBN 9781526164278
- Weight: 813g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms. The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take seriously?
James Fox is Director of Studies in History of Art at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Vid Simoniti is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool
