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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Edition Angewandte ,
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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