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A01=Boris Groys
Author_Boris Groys
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-AB
COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
HMM=210
IMPN=Verso Books
ISBN13=9781784783501
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20160216
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Verso Books
Subject=The Arts: General Issues
WG=567
WMM=140

In the Flow

Hardback | English

By (author): Boris Groys

In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit, as works of art as sacred object was decried and they would be understood as merely things. This meant an attack on realism, as well as the traditional preservative mission of the museum. Acclaimed art theorist Boris Gorys argues this led to the development of direct realism : an art that would not produce objects, but practices (from performance art to relational aesthetics) that would not survive. But for more than a century now, every advance in this direction has been quickly followed by new means of preserving art''s distinction. In this major new work, Groys charts the paradoxes produced by this tension, and explores art in the age of the thingless medium, the internet. Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 567g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Feb 2016
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784783501
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