Retracing the Expanded Field, 9780262027595
Hardcover
Scholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.

Retracing the Expanded Field

encounters between art and architecture

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  • Hardcover

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    23 October 2014

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Summary

Scholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few of the terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-five years. If modernists invented the model of an ostensible “synthesis of the arts,” their postmodern progeny promoted the semblance of pluralist fusion. In…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262027595
ISBN-10:0262027593
Series:The MIT Press
Author:Spyros Papapetros, Julian Rose
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:23 October 2014
Weight:1.13kg
Dimensions:229mm x 203mm x 27mm
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Critics Review

The book is absolutely worth, or may be even necessary, reading for everyone interested in ‘the field’. It keeps the conversation open to go on expanding the field in so many new directions. It proves that if Krauss’s 1979 article had the impact it had/s was for very good reasons, not only for how much it made the whole discipline reflect then, but because it continues to do so today. And the most recent contributions to the critique of the expanded field featured in this book also demonstrate that there are many theorists and practitioners willing and capable of carrying on with that task.

—Gabriela Galati, Leonardo Reviews

About The Author

Spyros Papapetros

Spyros Papapetros is Associate Professor of History and Theory and a member of the Executive Committees of the Program in European Cultural Studies and the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University.Julian Rose is Senior Editor of Artforum and a Founding Principal of the design studio Formlessfinder.

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