Where Art Belongs by Chris Kraus - ISBN: 9781584350989
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Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art.

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    176 pages

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    21 January 2011

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Summary

Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In four interlinked essays, Kraus expands the argument begun in her earlier book Video Green that “the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the larger world outside it.” Moving …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781584350989
ISBN-10:1584350989
Author:Chris Kraus
Publisher:Autonomedia
Imprint:Semiotext
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:21 January 2011
Weight:181g
Dimensions:178mm x 114mm x 13mm
Series:Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Chris Kraus [is] one of our smartest and most original writers on contemporary art and culture.

—Holland Cotter, The New York Times “ArtsBeat”

Writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus is searingly aware of the discourse in which she functions, and transforms it into something redolent of Simone Weil’s poeticism and its daunting theoretical undercurrents.

—Bookforum

Kraus’s text is not a collective call to arms, but an incitement to find art, to read in a heroic way, and to create a moment—as an individual or within a group—where one’s relationship to the past is dictated only by the chance nature of what the present has thrown at you.

—Glasgow Review of Books

Chris Kraus’s nuanced approach is akin to a cultural anthropologist who considers creativity in its natural habitats, the spaces where art comes into being.

—The Millions

InWhere Art Belongs, art theory becomes political philosophy: art matters insofar as it remains a practice, not a product. For Kraus, such practice is a means for establishing a way of life outside accepted capitalist conventions.

—Aliina Astrova, Kaleidoscope

[A] super fascinating thing in this book is an essay called ‘Indelible Video’… This essay is a total milestone…‘Indelible Video’ is so fascinating and consequential that it can’t be summarized here, however it is way worth the price of the book.

—Jon Leon,

About The Author

Chris Kraus

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker- A Literary Biography. She received the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.

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