{"product_id":"9781501347184","title":"Beyond Critique : Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice, and Instruction","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBeyond Critique\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritique has long been a central concept within art practice and theory. Since the emergence of Conceptual Art, artists have been expected by critics, curators, and art school faculty to focus their work on exposing and debunking ideologies of power and domination. Recently, however, the effectiveness of cultural critique has come into question. The appearance of concepts such as the \"speculative,\" the \"reparative,\" and the \"constructive\" suggests an emerging postcritical paradigm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Critique\u003c\/i\u003e takes stock of the current discourse around this issue. With some calling for a renewed criticality and others rejecting the model entirely, the book's contributors explore a variety of new and recently reclaimed criteria for contemporary art and its pedagogy. Some propose turning toward affect and affirmation; others seek to reclaim such allegedly discredited concepts as intimacy, tenderness, and spirituality. With contributions from artists, critics, curators and historians, this book provides new ways of thinking about the historical role of critique while also exploring a wide range of alternative methods and aspirations. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Critique\u003c\/i\u003e will be a crucial tool for students and instructors who are seeking to think and work beyond the critical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The anthology is most valuable as a taking stock of the waning appeal of ‘autonomous criticality’ as a criterion of value, and, as such, offers a tentative first step in the circumvention of cul-de-sac critique.” - \u003ci\u003eASAP Journal\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeyond Critique \u003c\/i\u003erepresents new scholarship that addresses the thesis that critical theory, or 'critique,' has become a master narrative, is complicit in its domination of aesthetic discourses, and is deserving of critical analysis. A much-needed, wide-ranging, intellectually informative discussion, the volume provides alternative approaches to thinking about art in history, theory, practice, and instruction.” —\u003ci\u003eKristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History \u0026amp; Visual Studies, Duke University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Navigating through postmodern pluralisms, neoliberal coercions of institutional critique, socially exclusive networks and market ideologies, this collection provides concrete analyses not only of the academic, ethical, socioeconomic and geopolitical obstacles that lay claim to the illusory capacities of critique in contemporary art, but alternatives for an art that is overwhelmed at its own upheaval of visible organization. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Critique\u003c\/i\u003e welcomes the reader into empirical approaches to past projects (such as Coco Fusco's 'Thoughts on \"Two Undiscovered Amerindians,” 20 Years Later'), and utilizes some of the most prominent thinkers of the 21st century to negotiate and reformulate the dissipation of critique today.” —\u003ci\u003eAnton Vidokle, artist and director of e-flux\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Articulating an urgent and formidable challenge to the institutionalized authority of suspicious and symptomatic reading,\u003ci\u003e Beyond Critique\u003c\/i\u003e offers compelling arguments for a more inclusive range of affective styles and modes of post-critical interpretation. As a timely follow-up to Rita Felski's \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Critique, \u003c\/i\u003ethis text is sure to further the long-awaited critical turn within the field of interpretation while impacting our awareness of contemporary critical analysis both inside and outside of the academy.” —\u003ci\u003eMichelle Grabner, Crown Family Professor of Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Critique enjoys an unassailable position atop the academic hierarchy, whether in the visual, performing, musical arts, or the academic systems used to make sense of them. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Critique: Contemporary Art in Theory, Practice, and Instruction\u003c\/i\u003e explores in groundbreaking fashion critique's habitually neglected other side in the transformative experiences that make culture a fundamental human experience and right. In this particular political moment, when political systems and aesthetic systems seem to be simultaneously imploding under the weight of unbridled critique, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Critique\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling and wide-ranging collection of models for thinking through the dialectics of art and politics today.” —\u003ci\u003eHannah Higgins, Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and author of Fluxus Experience and The Grid Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501347184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40678672138446,"sku":"9781501347184","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_38bd9bb6-d7e9-41ee-85d9-03f93f69f80b.jpg?v=1640060397","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501347184","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}