Joshua Decter,John Miller
In this volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts and reviews, spanning 1986-2012, Joshua Decter examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts. The book encompasses seven chapters: -Institutional Critique(R) and its Discontents-; -Aporia (art as politics, the politics of art)-; -Everything is Social-; -Convoluted Cities-; -The (Un)De-definition of Art-; -What Do We Want from Exhibitions?-; and -On the Curatorial Road.- The author unpacks art's paradoxical condition: art problematizes, and is intrinsically a problem. From this standpoint, he analyzes art's definitions, functions, ethical entanglements, societal aspirations and cultural contradictions.
Art,Art History
Art Is a Problem: Selected Criticism, Essays, Interviews and Curatorial Projects (1986-2012)