Time to Play

Action and Interaction in Contemporary Art

Katarzyna Zimna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-17541-9 (ISBN)

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Play art' or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing them active participation. The work of 'play' artists - from Carsten Holler's 'Test Site' at the Tate Modern to Gabriel Orozco's 'Ping Pond Table' - must be touched, influenced and experienced; the gallery-goer is no longer a spectator but a co-creator. Time to Play explores the role of play as a central but neglected concept in aesthetics and a model for ground-breaking modern and postmodern experiments that have intended to blur the boundary between art and life. Moving freely between disciplines, Katarzyna Zimna links the theory and history of 20th and 21st century art with ideas developed within play, game and leisure studies, and the philosophical theories of Kant, Gadamer and Derrida, to critically engage with current discussion on the role of the artist, viewers, curators and their spaces of encounter.
She combines a consideration of the philosophical implications of play with the examination of how it is actually used in modern and postmodern art - looking at Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus and Relational Aesthetics. Focusing mainly on process-based art, this bold book proposes a fresh approach - reaching beyond classical cultural theories of play.

Katarzyna Zimna is an independent artist, researcher and book illustrator based in London and Lodz, Poland. Her work has featured in exhibitions across Europe. She teaches at the Institute of Architecture of Textiles at the Technical University of Lodz.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Modern Perspectives on Play
2. 12Play is a Movement in between the Opposites
3. Play: From Modern Strategy t oPost-modern Tactic
4. The Turn to Play
Conclusion

Notes
References
SelectedBibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	268 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-17541-2 / 1350175412
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17541-9 / 9781350175419
Zustand	Neuware