Foucault on Painting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Soussloff
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Art Theory

Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Michel Foucault’s sustained engagement with European art history critically addresses present concerns about the mediated nature of the image in the digital age. She explores the meaning of painting for Foucault’s philosophy, and for contemporary art theory, proposing a new relevance for a Foucauldian view of ethics and the pleasures and predicaments of contemporary existence.

Artistic Creativity and Human Evolution – Art Theory and the Work of André Leroi-Gourhan

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Vassiliou
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Fourth Part ◽  
Artistic Theory ◽  
Analytical Tools

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht das Werk André Leroi-Gourhans und insbesondere seine zweibändige Monographie Le geste et la parole auf ihre kunsttheoretische Relevanz; so werden zentrale Debatten über künstlerische Kreativität behandelt und untersucht, inwiefern Leroi-Gourhan zu ihnen beitragen kann. Nach einer einführenden Darstellung einiger allgemeiner Prämissen von Leroi-Gourhan (I) wird in einem zweiten Teil (II) gezeigt, dass seine Theorie der »Rhythmen« wertvolle Einsichten in die Debatte um »Kunstwollen« und Materialismus bereithält. Der dritte Abschnitt (III) diskutiert Leroi-Gourhans Werk im Kontext der Debatte um Industrialisierung und audiovisuelle Kultur in ihrem Gegensatz zu handwerklicher Kreativität. Schließlich (IV) werden Leroi-Gourhans Schlussfolgerungen bezüglich Wahrnehung und Digitalität mit einigen Aspekten zeitgenössischer Kunsttheorie verbunden. Im Ganzen soll gezeigt werden, dass Leroi-Gourhans Werk ein flexibles analytisches Instrumentarium bereithält, um menschliche Evolution und Kunstgeschichte zusammenzudenken und Kreativität im Kontext der allgemeinen kulturellen und technologischen Verschiebungen nach der Moderne zu untersuchen.<br><br>This article relates the work of André Leroi-Gourhan and mostly his two-volume ok Le geste et la parole to art theory. More specifically, it is concerned with central debates on artistic creativity and examines how Leroi-Gourhan can contribute to them. After presenting some general premises of Leroi-Gourhan’s work (I), its second part (II) argues that his theory on ›rhythms‹ supplies valuable insights to the debate of Kunstwollen and materialism. The third part (III) discusses his work within the debate of industrialization and audiovisual culture as opposed to manual and artisanal creativity. The fourth part (IV) links Leroi-Gourhan’s conclusions on perception and digitality with some aspects of contemporary art theory. On the whole, this article argues that Leroi-Gourhans’s work provides flexible analytical tools in order to think art history and human evolution in conjunction, as well as a specifi c framework for examining creativity within the general cultural and technological shifts after the modern age. The conclusions of this essay shed some light on Leroi-Gourhan’s theories on art and offer some methodological perspectives to contemporary artistic theory.

scholarly journals THE IDENTITY AS AN ART PHENOMENON

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Zinenko
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
The Past

The research subject is the study of the Phenomenon of identity and its reflection in contemporary Ukrainian art. The purpose of the work is to investigate the specifics of the Phenomenon's reflection of identity in contemporary Ukrainian art. The work methodology is based on chronological and scientific comprehensiveness, art history, historical, philosophical, and culturological approaches, ontological, axiological, hermeneutic, phenomenological, cross-cultural, and method of art analysis. The work results allow us to understand the evolution of researchers' views in various fields on the Phenomenon of identity and its application in contemporary art approaches. The results' scope is today's artistic practices, history, art theory, and art criticism, teaching activities for students and graduate students of creative specialties. Findings. The Phenomenon of identity in contemporary art means that problem of its reflection in the art exists and begins to be understandable. Some conclusions about the correctness of the direction of practices and patterns to a new search identity approach can be made considering foreign experience. Simultaneously, a society that interacts with contemporary art in the latest cultural projects and what principles of such participation should be taken into account in organizational, design, exhibition, and interpretive activities. The proof that modern contemporary art in its various manifestations is deeply rooted in the socio-cultural process, and therefore has different forms of identity, is closely connected with the past and present of Ukraine. Appeal to the past in art - preserving memory, rethinks symbols and signs, gives new life to archaic images and techniques; art is turned to the present, reflecting on reality. Presenting society's moods and problems accumulate the achievements of Ukraine as an independent country.Keywords: contemporary art, identity, Ukraine, the beginning of XXI century. 

The Basic Paradigm Shift in Contemporary Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Social Politics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference

The difference between modern and contemporary art, which in the present enters the names of art museums, is based on the notions formed in art theory and art history: whereas modern art is tied to aesthetics, artistic autonomy, author, and the concept of stable and finished artwork, the more fluid and conceptual contemporary art foregrounds the links of the art with the social, politics, economy, everyday life, science, and media. This chapter aims to explore media-shaped contemporary art projects in terms of art services that are algorithmic, cognitive, and conceptual. The service presupposes a problem, a challenge, or an order to be solved or carried out. The artist as a service performer is always faced with a certain task, challenged to solve it in a sequence of steps, chosen as economically as possible. The service therefore ends with a solution of the problem (or its removal) and not with the manufacturing of a finished object.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Soussloff
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Art Theory

Using a comparative approach grounded in art history and aesthetics, this book simultaneously explores the meaning of painting for Foucault’s philosophy and for contemporary art theory, proposing the relevance of painting for ethics and art media today.

Contemporary Art and the Problem of Music: Towards a Musical Contemporary Art

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
G. DOUGLAS BARRETT
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Conceptual Art ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Absolute Music ◽  
Art Form

Abstract This article elaborates the art-theoretical concept of ‘the contemporary’ along with formal differences between contemporary music and contemporary art. Contemporary art emerges from the radical transformations of the historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde that have led to post-conceptual art – a generic art beyond specific mediums that prioritizes discursive meaning and social process – while contemporary music struggles with its status as a non-conceptual art form that inherits its concept from aesthetic modernism and absolute music. The article also considers the category of sound art and discusses some of the ways it, too, is at odds with contemporary art's generic and post-conceptual condition. I argue that, despite their respective claims to contemporaneity, neither sound art nor contemporary music is contemporary in the historical sense of the term articulated in art theory. As an alternative to these categories, I propose ‘musical contemporary art’ to describe practices that depart in consequential ways from new/contemporary music and sound art.

scholarly journals The Persistence of Primitivism: Equivocation in Ernesto Neto’s A Sacred Place and Critical Practice

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Camila Maroja
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Native People ◽  
Amazon Rainforest ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Environmental Work ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Venice Biennale

During the 2017 Venice Biennale, the area dubbed the “Pavilion of the Shamans” opened with A Sacred Place, an immersive environmental work created by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto in collaboration with the Huni Kuin, a native people of the Amazon rainforest. Despite the co-authorship of the installation, the artwork was dismissed by art critics as engaging in primitivism and colonialism. Borrowing anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s concept of equivocation, this article examines the incorporation of both indigenous and contemporary art practices in A Sacred Place. The text ultimately argues that a more equivocal, open interpretation of the work could lead to a better understanding of the work and a more self-reflexive global art history that can look at and learn from at its own comparative limitations.

Who (or What) is an AI Artist?

Leonardo ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Kieran Browne
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Art World ◽  
Significant Disagreement ◽  
History And Theory

Abstract The mainstream contemporary art world is suddenly showing interest in “AI art”. While this has enlivened the practice, there remains significant disagreement over who or what actually deserves to be called an “AI artist”. This article examines several claimants to the term and grounds these in art history and theory. It addresses the controversial elevation of some artists over others and accounts for these choices, arguing that the art market alienates AI artists from their work. Finally, it proposes that AI art's interactions with art institutions have not promoted new creative possibilities but have instead reinforced conservative forms and aesthetics.

Cataloging Contemporary Art in the Digital Age

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Brooke Kellaway
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Digital Age
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