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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262372855
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 28 February 2023
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14639.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262372855
Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics. In this original work of aesthetic theory, James Voorhies argues that we live in the shadow of old ways of thinking about art that emphasize the immediate visual experience of an autonomous art object. But theory must change as artistic and curatorial production has changed. It should encompass the full range of activities through which we encounter art and exhibitions, in which reading and thinking are central to the aesthetic experience. Voorhies advances the theoretical framework of a “postsensual aesthetics,” which does not mean we are beyond a sensual engagement with objects, but rather embraces the cognitive connections with ideas that unite art and knowledge production. Cognitive engagements with art often begin with publications conceived as integral to exhibitions, conveying the knowledge and research artists and curators produce, and continuing in time and space beyond traditional curatorial frames. The idea, and not just visual immediacy, is now art's defining moment. Voorhies reframes aesthetic criteria to account for the liminal, cognitive spaces inside and outside of the exhibition. Surveying a wide range of artists, curators, exhibitions, and related publications, he repositions the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, and draws inspiration from Rosalind Krauss and Fredric Jameson, to describe a contemporary “logic of the curatorial.” He demonstrates how, even as we increasingly expect to learn from contemporary art, we must avoid an instrumentalist and reductive view of art as a mere source of information. As Voorhies shows through an analysis of two major global exhibitions, dOCUMENTA (13) (artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev) and Documenta11 (artistic director Okwui Enwezor), and of Ute Meta Bauer's curatorial work at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, it is imperative for artistic research to retain its unique role in the production of knowledge.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262371612
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 November 2022
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/14551.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262371612
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