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The conceptual artist Liam Gillick writes a holistic genealogy of contemporary art, arguing that we need to appreciate its engagement with history, even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events. Rather than focus on dominant works or special cases, Gillick takes a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, underscoring the industry and intelligence of artists as they have responded to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology.
The conceptual artist Liam Gillick writes a genealogy of contemporary art, arguing that we need to appreciate its engagement with history. He takes a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, underscoring the industry and intelligence of artists as they have responded to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology.
Caroline A. Jones:Read Gillick's book to find the packed sediment of conceptual art discourse undergoing metamorphic transformation—with the marketized artworld's slow heat, dull pressure, and surface torque leaving inevitable traces on an intelligent maker's mind.
Tom McDonough, Binghamton University, author of The Situationists and the City: A Reader:In prose at once forthright and oblique, Liam Gillick attempts to extricate himself—and us, his readers—from the enveloping protoplasm known as 'contemporary art.' At the core of this book is a compelling alternative genealogy for our current condition, traced across four soft revolutions from 1820 to 1974. What that genealogy cumulatively reveals is a provocative diagnosis of the present as interminable: an entropic horizon against which artists and curators deploy their 'evasive markers.' With Industry and Intelligence, Gillick proves himself the most lucid inheritor of conceptualism's artist-writers, truly a latter-day Robert Smithson or Dan Graham.
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