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Utopias / edited by Richard Noble.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Whitechapel, documents of contemporary artPublication details: London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009.Description: 238 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780854881628
  • 9780262640695
  • 9780262640695 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0262640694 (MIT Presspbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780854881628 (Whitechapel Gallery)
  • 085488162X (Whitechapel Gallery)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.458
LOC classification:
  • .U83 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
The Utopian Imaginary -- Utopian Avant-Gardes -- Therapeutic Utopias -- Critical Utopias -- Utopia and Its (Im)Possibilities.
Summary: It illuminates how the exploration of utopian themes in art today contributes to our understanding of contemporary cultures, and the possibilities for shaping their futures."--BOOK JACKET.Review: "Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflects this general ambivalence. The utopian impulse informs politically activist and relational art, practices that fuse elements of art, design, and architecture, and collaborative projects aspiring to progressive social or political change. Two other tendencies have emerged in recent art: a looking backward to investigate the utopian elements of previous eras, and the imaginative modeling of alternative worlds as intimations of possibility. This anthology contextualizes these utopian currents in relation to political thought, viewing the utopian as a key term in the artistic lineage of modernity.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 700.458 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 64095
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 700.458 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 63895
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 700.458 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 62568

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233) and index.

The Utopian Imaginary -- Utopian Avant-Gardes -- Therapeutic Utopias -- Critical Utopias -- Utopia and Its (Im)Possibilities.

It illuminates how the exploration of utopian themes in art today contributes to our understanding of contemporary cultures, and the possibilities for shaping their futures."--BOOK JACKET.

"Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new. Contemporary art reflects this general ambivalence. The utopian impulse informs politically activist and relational art, practices that fuse elements of art, design, and architecture, and collaborative projects aspiring to progressive social or political change. Two other tendencies have emerged in recent art: a looking backward to investigate the utopian elements of previous eras, and the imaginative modeling of alternative worlds as intimations of possibility. This anthology contextualizes these utopian currents in relation to political thought, viewing the utopian as a key term in the artistic lineage of modernity.

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