Going Public

by Boris Groys ; ed. by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

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Author(s)

Boris Groys

Editor(s)

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Publication

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 210

Scope

168 Pages, illustrated, 18 cm.

ISBN

9781934105306

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If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. In Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.

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Keywords

art practice , art theory

Location

Cabinet 10 - 4: Kunst ; teksten

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references