The Object

Discussions of the object as a key to understanding central aspects of modern and contemporary art.

Artists increasingly refer to "post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on "object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262525763
• ISBN13: 9780262525763
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher