Failure: (Documents of Contemporary Art) - Softcover

Le Feuvre, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0854881824 ISBN 13: 9780854881826

Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery, 2010

Synopsis

Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies .

Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged and risk considered a viable position. Between the poles of success and failure lies a productive space where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This anthology establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural production.

Artists surveyed include: Bas Jan Ader, Francis Al’s, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Phil Collins, Martin Creed, David Critchley, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Isa Genzken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Félix Gonzįlez-Torres, Wade Guyton, International Necronautical Society, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, Bruce Nauman, Simon Patterson, Janette Parris, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Allen Ruppersberg, Roman Signer, Annika Ström, Paul Thek and William Wegman.

Writers include: Giorgio Agamben, Samuel Beckett, Daniel Birnbaum, Bazon Brock, Johanna Burton, Emma Cocker, Gilles Deleuze, Russell Ferguson, Ann Goldstein, Jörg Heiser, Jennifer Higgie, Richard Hylton, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Lisa Lee, Stuart Morgan, Hans-Joachim Müller, Karl Popper, Edgar Schmitz and Coosje van Bruggen

About this title

Product Description

Rare Book

Review

"This brilliant collection puts paid to the notion that the creative act - the inscrutable conjuring of something from nothing - is the dominant mode through which art comes into being. Lisa Le Feuvre's revision lends substance to art's emergence from inarticulate and unforgiving conditions, in order to position failure as one of the crucial obligations of modernism." - Andrew Renton, Director of MFA Curating Programme, Goldsmiths College, London "...[T]he book does what this kind of project should: it introduces you to unfamiliar ideas, authors, and practices; offers new approaches; and raises new questions. Presumably, it's intended for people who make or write about art, but you certainly don't have to be an artist to appreciate new ways of thinking about failure and, not coincidentally, success." - Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0854881824
• ISBN 13: 9780854881826
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240