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Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of stealing images and forms from other makers. Convergences of art and dance, 19601975, reveals historical. Moving image whitechapel documents of contemporary art. Dance and memory the whitechapel gallery launches two new titles. Among the diverse, often contestatory strategies included under the heading appropriation are the readymade, detournement, pastiche, rephotography, recombination, simulation and parody. Documents of contemporary art written by andr lepecki from our library. Nature whitechapel documents of contemporary art video. Investigations into the wide array of artistic relationships to memory, repetition and reappearance, and forgetting, in artworks from the late 1940s to the present. Dance because of its ephemerality, corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativity is arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in contemporary culture.
A political critique volume 45 issue 3 alexandra kolb skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Documents of contemporary art, london and cambridge, ma. Dancebecause of its ephemerality, corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativityis arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in contemporary culture. Neanderthal lucy and andy neanderthal the object whitechapel. This anthology investigates the turn in art not only towards archives and histories, the relics of modernities past, but toward the phenomena, in themselves, of haunting and the activation of memory. Shaw amassed a large collection of amateur art from second hand shops.
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