After the Event: New Perspectives on Art History (Rethinking Art's Histories) - Hardcover

Charles Merewether; Peter Osborne; Boris Groys

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719081734 ISBN 13: 9780719081736

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2010

Synopsis

A new approach to art history from an inter-disciplinary and global perspective with a focus on the event and its repercussions.

About this title

About the Authors

John Potts is Associate Professor in Media, Music and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Charles Merewether is an art historian and curator

From the Back Cover

The event occurs in and over time; the aftermath concerns the traces, which are frozen into images, objects, re-presentations. Traditionally, art history is written in the aftermath as representational. A different perspective on the visual arts is opened up when scholars insist on exploring the status of the event itself, allowing temporality to remain in place. By focusing on the event, recognition of the complex character of the traces becomes all the more evident, challenging the singularity of representation itself.

This book opens up debates on art history and theory to a broad range of perspectives, offering fresh approaches to art history and media culture alongside diverse investigations into cross-cultural and non-Western art practices. The essays draw together a wide and regionally diverse range of scholars from numerous areas, including film and documentary studies, philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, media theory and performance studies, as well as art history and theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719081734
• ISBN 13: 9780719081736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Charles Merewether, John Potts