Thoughts on an Index Not Freely Given
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Criticism, Art History
| Author: | John Roberts | ISBN: | 9781785353796 |
| Publisher: | John Hunt Publishing | Publication: | August 26, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Zero Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | John Roberts |
| ISBN: | 9781785353796 |
| Publisher: | John Hunt Publishing |
| Publication: | August 26, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Zero Books |
| Language: | English |
In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed artistic thought experiments. But in creating the work on the page these thought experiments are not thereby novelistic fictions. On the contrary, the fictiveness of each artist’s work and biography is formed from Roberts’s critical engagement with the historical and theoretical determinates of the work he has created - artwork and its theoretical engagement forming an interdependent whole.
In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed artistic thought experiments. But in creating the work on the page these thought experiments are not thereby novelistic fictions. On the contrary, the fictiveness of each artist’s work and biography is formed from Roberts’s critical engagement with the historical and theoretical determinates of the work he has created - artwork and its theoretical engagement forming an interdependent whole.
