Materiality

Essays consider recent artistic and critical approaches to materiality, focusing on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes.

Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter--considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity--and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262528096
• ISBN13: 9780262528092
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher