Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art Volume 4

by Kaira M. Cabanas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520356225
• ISBN13: 9780520356221
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"