The History of Contemporary Art in a Narrowed Field
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The History of Contemporary Art in a Narrowed Field
Original language description
This article, originally presented at the symposium “Creating the History of Contemporary Art” organised by the Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, deals with what is a symptomatic omission from the anthology Czech Art 1980–2010 (Prague: VVP AVU, 2011), namely its failure to take into account Rosalind Krauss’s “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”. This silence is no accident; Krauss’s had previously received almost no attention in the Czech Republic, and its impact became palpable in Czech art history writing only recently. It has been Krauss who, ever since The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths (1986), has interpreted postmodernism not as a “farewell to modernism”, but as a perspective that allows us to seek the terms and conditions for topics like the copy and reproduction, the reproducibility of the sign, and textual production in modernity. What is symptomatic of the omission is not just that it betrays the hidden assumptions of the editors and their notions of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism, but also, and more importantly, that it is a sign of a deeper regression of Czech theory, turning its inability to deal with relevant foreign sources into a virtue that either leads to a productive misunderstanding of art manifestos or, worse, to a quasi-theoretical discovery of the already discovered.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
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Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Sešit Reader. The First Ten Years of Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones 2007–2017
ISBN
978-80-87108-92-5
Number of pages of the result
9
Pages from-to
155-163
Number of pages of the book
382
Publisher name
AVU, VVP AVU
Place of publication
Praha
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