Anywhere or Not at All · Philosophy of Contemporary Art by Osborne, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Dedication Contents Introduction 1 The fiction of the contemporary

Together in time? Three periodizations of contemporary art Idea, problem, fiction, task The global transnational, or, the contemporary today Joseph Bitar Fictionalization of artistic authority/collectivization of artistic fictions: A First Transnational

2 Art beyond aesthetics

Art Versus Aesthetics (Jena Romanticism contra Kant) Periodization and Historical Ontology: Postconceptual Art A Speculative Proposition An Image of Romanticism (Benjamin, Schlegel, LeWitt) Fragment and Sentence Information and Series Process and Project

3 Modernisms and mediations

4 Transcategoriality: postconceptual art

Smithson and medium (or, against ‘sculpture’) The ‘interminable avalanche of categories’ Ontology of materializations: non-site Conceptual abstraction and ‘pure perception’

5 Photographic ontology, infinite exchange

6 Art space

Non-places and the textualization of art Architecturalization: three questions Construction and expression Art as displaced urbanism: capitalist constructivism of the exhibition-form Transnationalization: art industry Project space

7 Art time

Attention and distraction: boredom as possibility Distracted reception (duration and rhythm) Memory or history? Testimonies: Three works Expectation as a historical category (critique of Koselleck) Expecting the unexpected: puncturing the horizon

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