Visual Cultures as Seriousness

by Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff ; introduction by Jorella Andrews

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Author(s)

Gavin Butt, Irit Rogoff

Publication

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2013

Scope

88 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.

ISBN

9783943365399

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The contemporary art world has become more inhospitable to “serious” intellectual activity in recent years. Critical discourse has been increasingly instrumentalized in the service of neoliberal art markets and institutions, and artists are pressurized by the demands of popularity and funding bodies. Set against this context, Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff raise the question of “seriousness” in art and culture.

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Keywords

art theory , visual culture , art market , artistic research

Location

Cabinet 9 - 4: Kunst stromingen en thema's

Remarks

Incl. notes, Bibliographical References