Systems we have loved
Subtitle: conceptual art, affect, and the antihumanist turn
By: Eve Meltzer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780226007885; 9780226007915
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Structuralism; Conceptual art
Description: "By the early 1960s, theorists like Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its related forms to devise a new, conceptual approach to art making. Examining the ways in which artists shared the structuralist devotion to systems of many sorts, Systems We Have Loved shows that even as structuralism encouraged the advent of conceptual art, it also raised intractable problems that artists were forced to confront.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Antepartum; title: The dream of the information world; title: Turning around, turning away; title: The expanded field and other, more fragile states of mind; title: After words.