Across the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art

Across the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art By Martin Patrick, Intellect, 2017. As a writer of short-form art criticism, Patrick's compendium on contemporary practices has all the hallmarks of professional art writing, with theory kept to a min...

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Published in:Afterimage 2018-07, Vol.45 (4), p.36-38
Main Author: Leger, Marc James
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art criticism
Artistic representation (Imitation)
Artists
Authorship
Contemporary art
Criticism
Culture
Historical reenactments
Ideology
Intellect
Photography
Politics
Right and left (Political science)
Social criticism & satire
Subjectivity
Theory
Visual artists
Writing
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Summary:Across the Art/Life Divide: Performance, Subjectivity, and Social Practice in Contemporary Art By Martin Patrick, Intellect, 2017. As a writer of short-form art criticism, Patrick's compendium on contemporary practices has all the hallmarks of professional art writing, with theory kept to a minimum; with a critic's appreciation for artists and artworks; and with an interest in comparative and thematic groupings that accounts for new developments in art, institutional contexts, and social pressures. And with a background as a studio artist, Patrick demonstrates a keen sense of art practice from the perspective of makers. His writing privileges living practices, we could say, more than any prevailing concerns with theory, ideology, or politics. His book has seven chapters that have a self-reinforcing tendency insofar as he emphasizes the fluidity between performance, the everyday, the personal, and the social. Such interconnections also span different historical contexts.
ISSN:0300-7472
2578-8531