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THE FEVERED SPECTERS OF ART

THE FEVERED SPECTERS OF ART

Type
on subject
Auteur
Jan Verwoert, Ho Tzu Nyen, Felix Gmelin
Publisher
Sternberg Press, Edith-RuƟ-Haus, Oldenburg, 2018
Code
THEO-GME-1
Details
240 pages, 16.2 × 22.5 cm, English, German
book softcover
ISBN
9783956793707

Omschrijving

The Fevered Specters of Art is the final chapter of a long-term project curated by Edit MolnĆ”r, LĆ­via PĆ”ldi, and Marcel Schwierin that started with a group exhibition at Edith-Russ-Haus fuĢˆr Medienkunst, Oldenburg, in 2016. The show looked back on the epoch of Cold War radicalism and anti-colonial revolution, an era characterized by a proliferation of ideas about how radical social change might permeate the globe.

The publication, like the exhibition itself, presents a variety of approaches that, through specific events and historical contexts, survey the theories and practices of radical leftist politics of the 1960s and 1970s and the relationship between politics and aesthetics. The book also investigates the ways in which artists rethink the possibilities of new political subjects and how complex sociohistorical connections can be questioned and revisited in the realm of art.