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Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today

By (author) Claire Bishop

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The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty venues. There are endless artworks about mid-century architecture and design. How are we expected to engage with today's diverse practise? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling? Across four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice - research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture - and their challenges to traditional modes of attention. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.

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Publisher | Verso Books
Published date | 11 Jun 2024
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 272
Dimensions | 210 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 353g
ISBN | 978-1-8042-9288-4
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BISAC | art / art & politics


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