Industry and Intelligence : : Contemporary Art Since 1820 / / Liam Gillick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Gillick, Liam,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Bampton Lectures in America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 50 b&w illustrations

The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of contemporary art.In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events. Taking a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, Gillick follows the response of artists to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology. The great innovations and dislocations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have their place in this timeline, but their traces are alternately amplified and diminished as Gillick moves through artistic reactions to liberalism, mass manufacturing, psychology, nuclear physics, automobiles, and a host of other advances. He intimately ties the origins of contemporary art to the social and technological adjustments of modern life, which artists struggled to incorporate truthfully into their works.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Creative Disruption in the Age of Soft Revolutions -- 1. Contemporary Art Does Not Account for That Which Is Taking Place -- 2. Projection and Parallelism -- 3. Art as a Pile: Split and Fragmented Simultaneously -- 4. 1820: Erasmus and Upheaval -- 5. ASAP Futures, Not Infinite Future -- 6. 1948: B. F. Skinner and Counter-Revolution -- 7. Abstract -- 8. 1963: Herman Kahn and Projection -- 9. The Complete Curator -- 10. Maybe It Would Be Better If We Worked in Groups of Three? -- 11. The Return of the Border -- 12. 1974: Volvo and the Mise-en-Scène -- 13. The Experimental Factory -- 14. Nostalgia for the Group -- 15. Why Work? -- Notes -- Index