Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art

Title: Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary ArtAuthor: Osborne, PeterPublisher: VersoBinding: PaperbackPages: 288Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00dProduct Weight: 0.95 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9781781680940A new reading of the philosophy of contemporary art by the author of The Politics of TimeContemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis? Anywhere or Not at All is a major philosophical intervention in art theory that challenges the terms of established positions through a new approach at once philosophical, historical, social and art-critical. Developing the position that "contemporary art is postconceptual art," the book progresses through a dual series of conceptual constructions and interpretations of particular works to assess the art from a number of perspectives: contemporaneity and its global context; art against aesthetic; the Romantic pre-history of con