Artificial Hells
Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
by Claire Bishop

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Author(s)

Claire Bishop

Publication, year

London ; New York : Verso, 2012

Scope

382 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9781844676903

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Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as “social practice.” Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Paweł Althamer and Paul Chan.

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Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.