Abstraction & Economy : : Myths of Growth / / ed. by Eva Maria Stadler, Jenni Tischer.

• MitwirkendeR: Apprich, Clemens,; Bhandar, Brenna,; Braun, Christina von,; Buchmann, Sabeth,; Císař, Karel,; Ferreira da Silva, Denise,; Grzonka, Patricia,; Jutz, Gabriele,; Kernbauer, Eva,; Kirschner, Blaise,; La Berge, Leigh Claire,; Lütticken, Sven,; Panos, David,; Quaytman, R. H.,; Scherrer, Christian,; Stadler, Eva Maria,; Tischer, Jenni,; Vishmidt, Marina,; Weber, Beat,; Wissen, Markus,
• HerausgeberIn: Stadler, Eva Maria,; Tischer, Jenni,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Angewandte ,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Opposing a regime of accumulation and abstraction This anthology explores the tension between abstraction and economics from the perspectives of art, art theory, art history, as well as law, sociology, philosophy, and economics. It poses questions about the current challenges of a global capitalist economy with claims to expansive growth in relation to aesthetics, technology, and democracy. The relationship between abstraction and economics is discussed in a series of theoretical and artistic contributions. The main focus is on the role of art in mediating between the concrete and the abstract, on formalist approaches to art theory, and on the social and economic cues that help us trace the aesthetic regime of capitalism. Ultimately, this book asks, “how can artistic-aesthetic practices counteract the regime of accumulation and abstraction?” The visual arts in a socioeconomic context Reflecting on the relationship between abstraction and economics from capitalist-critical, decolonial, ecological, and queer-feminist perspectives Contributions by Brenna Bhandar, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sven Lütticken, R. H. Quaytman, Marina Vishmidt, and others

Wider das Regime der Akkumulation und Abstraktion Die Anthologie untersucht das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Abstraktion und Ökonomie aus Perspektiven der Kunst, Kunsttheorie, Kunstgeschichte sowie Recht, Soziologie, Philosophie und Ökonomie. Sie stellt Fragen zu aktuellen Herausforderungen einer globalen kapitalistischen Wirtschaft mit Anspruch auf expansives Wachstum im Verhältnis zu Ästhetik, Technologie und Demokratie. In theoretischen und künstlerischen Beiträgen wird das Verhältnis von Abstraktion und Ökonomie diskutiert. Im Fokus stehen die Frage nach der Rolle der Kunst zwischen Konkretion und Abstraktion, formalistische Ansätze der Kunsttheorie sowie soziale und ökonomische Aspekte, um dem ästhetischen Regime des Kapitalismus auf die Spur zu kommen. Wie können künstlerisch-ästhetische Praktiken dem Regime der Akkumulation und Abstraktion entgegenwirken? Bildende Kunst im sozioökonomischen Kontext Reflexion der Beziehung von Abstraktion und Ökonomie aus kapitalismuskritischer, dekolonialer, ökologischer und queer-feministischer Perspektive Beiträge von Brenna Bhandar, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sven Lütticken, R. H. Quaytman, Marina Vishmidt u. a.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glossary in Quotes -- Exhibition on Sixteen Pages: Introduction -- Exhibition on Sixteen Pages -- MONEY Setting of Values -- Introduction -- Abstraction as Critique of Abstraction -- Digitizing Art, Money, and Man -- Sell Everything, Buy Everything, Kill Everything -- There Is No More Abstraction -- What’s the Matter with Money? On the Relation between Abstraction and Economic Value -- 17,000 Iron Bolts Don’t Lie: On Economy, Abstraction, and Truth in Otto Wagner’s Postsparkasse -- “Who Paints Abstractly?” A Socioeconomic History of Art after Alexandre Kojève -- PROPERTY and DEBT Questions of Rededications -- Introduction -- Legal Abstractions: Violence and Vulnerability -- Concrete Abstraction – Our Common World -- From “Second-Order Formalism” toward “Political Geometry”: The Work of Florian Pumhösl -- Blacklight -- GRID A Symbolic Form -- Introduction -- Off the Grid: Skipping Rope in between the Abstract and the Concrete, Touching Its Material (Pre)Conditions, (Pre)Attitudes, and Anticipations -- Again(st) the Progression Rule: Reflections on the Nexus of Abstraction and Economy in Brazilian Art of the 1960s and 70s and Its Reception -- Abstract Painter -- Grids, Interfering: Queer Relationality in Works by Lorna Simpson, Andy Warhol, and Sol LeWitt -- Always Be Filtering -- NATURAL CAPITAL The Fiction of Post-Season -- Introduction -- Core Absence -- Systemic Externalities: On the Socioecological Costs of the Capitalist Mode of Production -- Absolut Konkret: Technical and Material Aspects of Early Abstract Film -- Image Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Imprint