Art Is a Problem: Selected Criticism, Essays, Interviews and Curatorial Projects (1986-2012)

By Joshua Decter

In this volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts and reviews, spanning 1986-2012, Joshua Decter examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts. The book encompasses seven chapters: "Institutional Critique(R) and its Discontents"; "Aporia (art as politics, the politics of art)"; "Everything is Social"; "Convoluted Cities"; "The (Un)De-definition of Art"; "What Do We Want from Exhibitions?"; and "On the Curatorial Road." The author unpacks art's paradoxical condition: art problematizes, and is intrinsically a problem. From this standpoint, he analyzes art's definitions, functions, ethical entanglements, societal aspirations and cultural contradictions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037641959
• ISBN13: 9783037641958
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Jrp Ringier
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.3"