Research Catalog

Title

The present of the future / Susanne Witzgall and Kerstin Stakemeier (eds.).

Publication

• Zurich : Diaphanes, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Stakemeier, Kerstin, 1975-
• Witzgall, Susanne,

Description

221 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.

Summary

"The current outlook into the future seems to be largely informed by resignation and anxiety. The understandable scepticism which utopian visions of the future are met with today and the crisis ridden present give rise to nostalgic resorts to seemingly reliable ideas. The book 'The Present of the Future' investigates our present relation to the future and asks which means and strategies artists and scholars pursue today, to gain a new scope of action for shaping alternative futures. How do they create potentials for change and for the imagination of possible futures beyond modernistic idealisms and romanticist projections into remote times? 'The Present of the Future' is the result of the third annual theme of the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Publication series of the CX Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich

Uniform Title

• Gegenwart der Zukunft. English.
• Schriftenreihe des cx centrum für interdisziplinäre studien der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. English.

Subjects

• Art moderne > Thèmes, motifs
• Futurisme (art) > dans l'art
• Civilisation moderne
• Future, The
• Future in art
• Civilization, Modern
• Arts, Modern > Themes, motives

Note

• "The current outlook into the future seems to be largely informed by resignation and anxiety. The understandable scepticism which utopian visions of the future are met with today and the crisis ridden present give rise to nostalgic resorts to seemingly reliable ideas. The book 'The Present of the Future' investigates our present relation to the future and asks which means and strategies artists and scholars pursue today, to gain a new scope of action for shaping alternative futures. How do they create potentials for change and for the imagination of possible futures beyond modernistic idealisms and romanticist projections into remote times? 'The Present of the Future' is the result of the third annual theme of the cx centre for interdisciplinary studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich"--Back cover.
• Many contributions are in the form of interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Most contributions translated from German.

Call Number

CB430

ISBN

• 9783037349861
• 3037349867

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries