Cabanas Kaira M. - Immanent Vitalities Meaning And Materiality In Modern And Contemporary Art - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous inanimate form and more as an active material agent. In this book Kaira M. Caba as describes how such a shift in conceptions of art's materiality came to occur exploring key artistic practices in Venezuela Brazil and Western Europe from the mid - twentieth century to the present. Immanent Vitalities expands the discourse of new materialisms by charting how artists ranging from Gego to Laura Lima distance themselves from dualisms such as mind - matter culture - nature human - nonhuman and even Western non - Western in order to impact our understanding of what is animate. Tracing migrations of people objects and ideas between South America and Europe Caba as historicizes changing perceptions about art's agency while prompting readers to remain attentive to the ethical dimensions of materiality and of social difference and lived experience.
Title: Immanent Vitalities Meaning And Materiality In Modern And Contemporary Art
Author(s): Cabanas Kaira M.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520356221
Pages: 240 Pages, 70 Color Illustrations, 27 B-W Illustrations
Publication Date: 4/6/2021
Series: Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art
Category: History Of The Americas