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Immanent vitalities : meaning and materiality in modern and contemporary art

Title

Immanent vitalities : meaning and materiality in modern and contemporary art / Kaira M. Cabañas.

Author

Cabañas, Kaira Marie, 1974-

Publication

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Description

xiv, 219 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.

Summary

"A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous, inanimate form and more as an active material agent. In this book, Kaira M. Cabañas describes how such a shift in conceptions of art's materiality came to occur, exploring key artistic practices in Venezuela, Brazil, and Western Europe from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. Immanent Vitalities expands the discourse of new materialisms by charting how artists, ranging from Gego to Laura Lima, distance themselves from dualisms such as mind-matter, culture-nature, human-nonhuman, and even western-nonwestern in order to impact our understanding of what is animate. Tracing migrations of people, objects, and ideas between South America and Europe, Cabañas historicizes changing perceptions about art's agency while prompting readers to remain attentive to the ethical dimensions of materiality and of social difference and lived experience"--

Series Statement

Studies on Latin American art ; 4

Uniform Title

Studies on Latin American art ; 4.

Subject

Genre/Form

Art criticism.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Color Is active life -- For the love of metal -- Painting's countenance -- Art without art -- Entangling the grid -- Apersonal rituals

ISBN

9780520356221
0520356225

LCCN

2020013469
99990578168
99989410012

OCLC

on1155487133
1155487133

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries