Discourses – Conversations in Postmodern Art & Culture (Paper): Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art) - Softcover

Ferguson, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262560631 ISBN 13: 9780262560634

Publisher: MIT Press, 1992

Synopsis

This anthology of interviews and discussions documents the polemical positions and strategies of contemporary critical thought in the making. Engaging nearly 100 artists, theorists, and critics from a variety of fields, these conversations focus on the most contested areas within contemporary critical debate: the relationship between theory and artistic production, the role of art in the community, the meaning of postmodernism, the effects of representation on racial and sexual stereotypes, the relationship between high art and popular culture, and the responsibilities of art institutions. Reflecting the breadth of the postmodern debate, "Discourses" includes the voices of filmmakers, artists who work outside traditional art contexts, social activists, novelists, drag performers, architects and musicians. Participants in the discussions include Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Griel Marcus, Vito Russo, Edmund White, M.C. Lyte, Roland Barthes, Kate Millett, Malcolm McLaren, Richard Hell, Philip Johnson, and Laurie Anderson.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0262560631
• ISBN 13: 9780262560634
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480