Becoming past : history in contemporary art / Jane Blocker.

"Is there such a thing as contemporary art history? The contemporary, after all--as much as we may want to consider it otherwise--is being made history as it happens. By what means do we examine this moving target? These questions lie at the center of Jane Blocker's Becoming Past. The impo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Blocker, Jane (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction: History as Prosthesis
  • One: Wooden Legs: Goat Island's Acts of Repair
  • Two: Houses Falling Down: Archival Violence in Steve McQueen's Deadpan
  • Three: Incorrect and Incomplete: Ross McElwee's Fictions and Samuel Delany's Lies
  • Four: The Empty Stage: A Story about the Past by Matthew Buckingham
  • Five: Stupid Birds: Temporal Dissidence in The Lastmaker
  • Six: Transitional Objects: Dario Robleto's Spools
  • Conclusion: Wooden Feet: Francis Alÿs and Syncopated Time
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
  • W
  • Y.