| Author | : Claire Bishop |
| File Size | : 44,6 Mb |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 11 June 2024 |
| ISBN | : 9781804292907 |
| Pages | : 302 pages |
Disordered Attention by Claire Bishop Book PDF Summary
The ways we encounter contemporary art and performance is changing. Installations brim with archival documents. Dances stretch for weeks. Performances last a minute. Exhibitions are spread out over thirty venues. There are endless artworks about mid-century architecture and design. How are we expected to engage with today's diverse practise? Is the old model of close-looking still the ideal, or has it given way to browsing, skimming, and sampling? Across four essays, art historian and critic Claire Bishop identifies trends in contemporary practice- research-based installations, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture-and their challenges to traditional modes of attention. Charting a critical path through the last three decades, Bishop pinpoints how spectatorship and visual literacy are evolving under the pressures of digital technology.