Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032290455 ISBN 13: 9781032290454

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today.

This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, media studies, performance, museum/curatorial studies, and theater.

About this title

About the Author

Jennie Hirsh is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Georgia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032290455
• ISBN 13: 9781032290454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Hirsh Jennie, Wallace Isabelle Loring