Boredom

by MCDONOUGH TOM

Boredom in modern and contemporary art: as something to be struggled against, embraced as an experience, or explored as a potential site of resistance.

Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity. The current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialization, mass politics, and consumerism. From Manet onwards, when art represents the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are inevitable. And starting with modernism's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262533448
• ISBN13: 9780262533447
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher