Failure
By: edited by Lisa Le Feuvre.
Contributors: Le Feuvre, Lisa.
Series: Whitechapel, documents of contemporary art
Publisher: MIT Press; Whitechapel Gallery
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780262514774
Subjects: Failure (Psychology) in art; Arts, Modern -- 20th century; Arts, Modern -- 21st century
Description: "Amidst current global uncertainty failure has become a central subject of investigation in recent art. Artists have actively claimed the space of failure to propose a resistant view of the world. Here success is deemed overrated, doubt embraced, experimentation encouraged and risk considered a viable position. Between the poles of success and failure lies a productive space where paradox rules and dogma is refused. This anthology establishes failure as a core concern in contemporary cultural production. Failure is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.