Houses To Die In and Other Essays on Art
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Product Details
Author:
Ina Blom
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
256
Publisher:
MIT Press (December 27, 2022)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9783956796319
ISBN-10:
3956796314
Weight:
17.6oz
Dimensions:
5.88" x 8.25" x 1.01"
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$28.00
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16
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Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
Estonia
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Sternberg Press
Overview
Art critical essays focusing on artworks that, in various ways, convey a sense of unheroic "trouble."
The undead of contemporary painting, avant-garde populism, photography courting stupidity, fraught networking, synthetic atmospheres, displaced abstractions, and the mediation of pain: these are among the subjects treated in this collection of essays by art historian and critic Ina Blom. Written over the past twenty years and drawing on Blom’s familiarity with the contemporary art scene as well as the archives of twentieth-century avant-garde art, these texts share a pull towards artistic projects that are not redemptive or exemplary but that rather convey a sense of—often unheroic—trouble. Leaning into ambivalence as a methodology of criticism, Blom takes a particular interest in the detours, doubts, and difficulties that run alongside avant-garde art’s more constructively hopeful desires for transformative innovation and change.
The undead of contemporary painting, avant-garde populism, photography courting stupidity, fraught networking, synthetic atmospheres, displaced abstractions, and the mediation of pain: these are among the subjects treated in this collection of essays by art historian and critic Ina Blom. Written over the past twenty years and drawing on Blom’s familiarity with the contemporary art scene as well as the archives of twentieth-century avant-garde art, these texts share a pull towards artistic projects that are not redemptive or exemplary but that rather convey a sense of—often unheroic—trouble. Leaning into ambivalence as a methodology of criticism, Blom takes a particular interest in the detours, doubts, and difficulties that run alongside avant-garde art’s more constructively hopeful desires for transformative innovation and change.
