Description
Examining the relationship of art and the public today
What does "art as a public affair" mean? What is public? And not least what is the relationship between art and public? These are the three questions that this exhibition, and this book, aspire to explore, with a starting point in Boris Groys's essay Art in the Age of Democracy. The exhibition and book pivot on the four existential concerns of isolation/loneliness, meaninglessness, freedom and death, as well as their political instrumentalization. These four basic human conditions are examined through different psychological mechanisms, political agendas and existential issues in the light of such concepts as the welfare state, national identity, solidarity, birth, death, totalitarianisms, migration, mass movements, iconoclasms, psychosis, intimacy, embarrassment and shame.
Examining the relationship of art and the public today
About the Author
Claus Carstensen (b. 1954) is an artist, curator and author.
Book Information
ISBN 9783775758918
Author Per Aage Brandt
Format Paperback
Page Count 316
Imprint Hatje Cantz
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Weight(grams) 1540g
What does "art as a public affair" mean? What is public? And not least what is the relationship between art and public? These are the three questions that this exhibition, and this book, aspire to explore, with a starting point in Boris Groys's essay Art in the Age of Democracy. The exhibition and book pivot on the four existential concerns of isolation/loneliness, meaninglessness, freedom and death, as well as their political instrumentalization. These four basic human conditions are examined through different psychological mechanisms, political agendas and existential issues in the light of such concepts as the welfare state, national identity, solidarity, birth, death, totalitarianisms, migration, mass movements, iconoclasms, psychosis, intimacy, embarrassment and shame.
Examining the relationship of art and the public today
About the Author
Claus Carstensen (b. 1954) is an artist, curator and author.
Book Information
ISBN 9783775758918
Author Per Aage Brandt
Format Paperback
Page Count 316
Imprint Hatje Cantz
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Weight(grams) 1540g
