Failure

by Lisa Le Feuvre

Investigations of failure as a key concern--as theme, strategy, and world view--of recent art.

Amid the global uncertainties of our times, failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Celebrating failed promises and myths of the avant-garde, or setting out to realize seemingly impossible tasks, artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026251477X
• ISBN13: 9780262514774
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher