| Description |
477 pages ; 19 cm |
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What Is Art For? / Ellen Dissanayake -- Doin' Dirt Time / Rachel Dutton and Rob Olds -- Making Art About Centipedes / Christopher Manes -- No Art in the Lifeboats / Hilton Kramer -- Ten Thousand Artists, Not One Master / Satish Kumar -- Creating the Space for a Miracle / David Plante -- When You're Healed, Send Me a Postcard / James Hillman -- You Don't Have to Have a Penis to Be a Genius / Guerrilla Girls -- Viewing the World as Process / Carolyn Merchant -- Breaking Out of the White Cube / Richard Shusterman -- Searching For the Essence of Art / Arthur C. Danto -- Removing the Frame / Mary Jane Jacob -- Two Undiscovered Aborigines Dancing on the Wound of History / Coco Fusco -- A Few Beautifully Made Things / Theodore Roszak -- Our Students Need the City / Carol Becker -- The Liminal Zones of Soul / Thomas Moore -- The Aesthetics of Everyday Life / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Adrift on the Fickle Seas of the Art World / Laurie Zuckerman |
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A Farewell to Modernism / Leo Castelli |
| Summary |
Castelli staunchly defend modernism's traditional isolation of art from political and social issues; sculptors Rachel Dutton and Rob Olds and performance artist Coco Fusco explore new kinds of art-making in an attempt to reconnect with the contemporary world; and Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and archetypal psychologist James Hillman show how art's present crisis of meaning is tied to the broader context of our contemporary social and spiritual crises |
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Conversations Before the End of Time combines the incisive analysis of Suzi Gablik's previous criticism with the interactive creativity of the meeting of seminal minds; For anyone seriously concerned about the future of contemporary art and culture, it is both a sourcebook and an inspiration |
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When "the end of time" seems close at hand, what meaning or purpose can art possibly have? In this challenging series of dialogues with nineteen artists, writers, philosophers and critics, art critic Suzi Gablik addresses these and other central questions about the meaning and future of art in an age of accelerating social change and spiritual uncertainty. In conversations that are by turns intense, personal, philosophical, intimate and poignant, Hilton Kramer and Leo |
| Analysis |
Arts Aesthetics |
| Notes |
First paperback edition 1997 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Artists -- Interviews.
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Arts and society -- History -- 20th century.
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Arts and society.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Interviews.
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Intellectual life.
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Postmodernism.
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| Genre/Form |
Art criticism.
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| LC no. |
95060205 |
| ISBN |
0500016739 |
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0500278385 (paperback) |
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