Institutional Attitudes Instituting Art In A Flat World
| Author | Pascal Gielen Ed |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Valiz / Antennae |
| ISBN | 9789078088684 |
| Idea Code | 13171 |
Today’s networked society offers us many wondrous possibilities of information, communication, mobility, and flexibility. It also has a latent side effect: it makes the world “flat”. Time-honoured hierarchies, traditions, elites and canons are subject to erosive movements. In such a flattened, “horizontal” world, art institutions are finding it difficult to survive. After all, institutions such as these traditionally represent “verticality” – historic profundity, tradition, values, dignity, and certainty.
| 262 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English |
