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On contemporary art
- Title
- On contemporary art / César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver.
- Author
- Aira, César, 1949-
- Publication
- New York, New York : David Zwirner Books, 2018.
- New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P. ; London : Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson, Ltd.
- ©2018
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- Description
- 61 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- Translated into English for the first time, 'On Contemporary Art', a speech by the renowned novelist César Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Aira's dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under question--from reproducibility of artworks to the value of the written word itself. In the end, Aira leaves us stranded on the bridge between writing and art that he set out to construct in the first place, flailing as we try to make sense of where we stand. On Contemporary Art exemplifies what David Zwirner Books' ekphrasis series is dedicated to doing--exploring the space in which words give meaning to objects, and objects shape our words. Like the great writers Walter Benjamin and Hermann Broch before him, Aira operates in the space between fiction and essay writing, art and analysis. Pursuing questions about reproducibility, art making, and limits of language, Aira's unique voice adds new insights to the essential conversations that continue to inform our understanding of art. Translated by Katherine Silver.
- Series Statement
- Ekphrasis
- Uniform Title
- Sobre el arte contemporáneo. English
- Ekphrasis (New York, N.Y.)
- Alternative Title
- Sobre el arte contemporáneo.
- Subject
- Note
- "Translated from the Spanish Sobre el arte contemporáneo"--Colophon.
- Contents
- Foreword / Will Chancellor -- On contemporary art / César Aira -- Afterword / Alexandra Kleeman.
- ISBN
- 1941701868
- 9781941701867
- LCCN
- 99978321569
- OCLC
- on1028588497
- 1028588497
- SCSB-9737069
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries