Networked Art
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780816637072
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Group work in art; Art and society; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Social aspects; General; Fine Arts; Aesthetics
Description: The experimental art and poetry of the last half of the twentieth century offers a glimpse of the emerging networked culture that electronic devices will make omnipresent. Craig J. Saper demarcates this new genre of networked art, which uses the trappings of bureaucratic systems - money, logos, corporate names, stamps - to create intimate situations among the participants. Saper explains how this genre developed from post-World War II conceptual art, including periodicals as artworks in themselves; lettrist, concrete, and process poetry; Bauhaus versus COBRA; Fluxus publications, kits, and machines; mail art and on-sendings. The encyclopedic scope of the book includes discussions of artists from J. Beuys to J. S. G. Boggs, and Bauhaus's Max Bill to Anna Freud Banana. -- Publisher.