Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics
| Author | Nicolas Bourriaud |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| ISBN | 9783956795879 |
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| Status | not yet published |
First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art’s turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Republished here in a revised edition nearly twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and forward by the author. Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach towards contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists’ works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
| 128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English |
Sternberg Press
