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The Object as a Process : Essays Situating Artistic Practice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmidt-Wulffen, Stephan
Other Authors: Duarte, German A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript, 2022.
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft.
Subjects:
Art > Philosophy.
Object (Aesthetics)
Knowledge, Theory of.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Speaking of Things
  • An Introduction
  • The Autonomous Aesthetic of Allure: Mary Bauermeister's Needless Needles and Graham Harman's Object Philosophy
  • Graham Harman's art-object philosophy and Needless Needles
  • Mary Bauermeister's Needless Needles in the mirror of OOO
  • Object aesthetics of Needless Needles
  • Simply things
  • Things and objects
  • Instruments and Devices
  • Poiesis and Technology
  • Gifts and Sacrifices
  • Works of Art
  • Ephemerality and Resistance
  • Conclusions
  • On Poetry
  • Origins and Ends: Understanding the Medium of Painting According to Heidegger's Truth
  • 1. Originating Origins
  • 2. Forestalling Ends
  • 3. Caesura: The End of the End-Painting in the Contracted Field
  • Object as Symbol: Baudrillard's Thanatopoietic Form
  • Prelude: On the Paradoxical Logic of Life
  • Baudrillard's Thanatopoietic Form
  • Framing Symbolic Exchange
  • Symbolic Exchange at Work
  • A Lost Object: Death
  • Pre-Capitalist Death
  • The Death Drive: Freud Bataille
  • Discrete Death: Serres' Quasi-Object
  • Discreet Death: On the Natural and the Safe
  • Salute to Life: Reversibility and Artistic Practice
  • Co-Production: Towards a Relational Ontology of Aesthetic Objects
  • Beyond Hylomorphism: The Relationality of Becoming Plural
  • Inscriptions: Co-Production and the Dephasing of the Filmic Art Object
  • Resume: Artistic Practice as Trans-Individual Becoming
  • Correspondences: Exploring the Echoes of Jack Spicer's Poetics in the Paintings of Matt Connors
  • The Object of Non-Aesthetics
  • Non-Standard Philosophy in Brief
  • Precedents
  • Invariance
  • Matrix
  • Solid Gifts
  • Massimo Bartolini's Untitled Untitled (2001)
  • (Praeludium) Massimo Bartolini's Untitled Untitled
  • A New Nature of Space
  • The Method of postulation
  • The object of the system
  • Figuring the topologic condition
  • Object + Subject = Body. An Equation for a non-Euclidean dimension (peractio)
  • The Lure of Absence: Can there be Process without Artists?
  • Persistent Materials
  • A noisy love affair: The Language of Things in the Works of Mark Leckey and Musa paradisiaca
  • The photographic multiples of Joseph Beuys as an extension of himself
  • Beuys and his own image
  • "I'm a sender, I transmit"
  • The aura of Beuys transmitted through appropriation
  • And today?
  • Obsolescence and reinvention: the case study of João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva
  • Media obsolescence
  • "Zombie media" and material reinvention
  • Case study: Portuguese artist-duo, Gusmao and Paiva
  • Final considerations
  • A Two-Way Mirror: Narcissism and Surveillance from the Closed Circuit to the Network
  • Modernist Reflexivity and Video Reflection
  • The Indexical Beyond the Imprint and the Photograph
  • The Delay and the Recording: The Irruption of the Other's Gaze
  • The Forms of the Electronic Apparatus