The 'Do-It-Yourself' Artwork: Participation from Fluxus to New Media (Rethinking Art's Histories) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719081440 ISBN 13: 9780719081446

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2010

Synopsis

As artists since the 1950s have increasingly sought to involve viewers more actively in their artworks, this critical anthology sheds light on the nature of these new forms of participation and their historical, social and political significance.

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About the Author

Anna Dezeuze is an Honorary Research Fellow in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester

From the Back Cover

Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new forms of participation? In what ways does active participation affect the viewer's experience and the status of the artwork? Spanning a range of practices including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you - the viewer - are invited to 'do it yourself.'

Rather than a specialist topic in the history of twentieth- and twenty-first century art, the 'do-it-yourself' artwork raises broader issues concerning the role of the viewer in art, the status of the artwork and the socio-political relations between art and its contexts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719081440
• ISBN 13: 9780719081446
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Dezeuze Anna