Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art

by Claire Cloninger

What if all works of art were better understood as functioning apparatuses, entangling their human audiences in experiences of becoming? What if certain works of art were even able to throw the brakes on becoming altogether, making nothings rather than somethings? What would be the ethical value of making nothing, of stalling becoming; and how might such nothings even be made?Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art borrows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195303537X
• ISBN13: 9781953035370
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"