Contemporary art: what is it about? Notes taken through the reading of the book “The contingent object of contemporary art” written by Martha Buskirk

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  • Pérola Mathias Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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https://doi.org/10.5216/vis.v13i2.34101

Abstract

What does exactly mean that thing that we use to call “contemporary art” nowadays? Is this expression an aesthetic label, a style, a genre, a historic period or what? Concerning the argument of certain artists that the one who works  in your own present time can make contemporary art, this text seeks to explain the complexity of questions about this artistic “paradigm” through the reading of the book “The contingent object of contemporary art” written by Martha Buskirk. The author, besides the problematization of the contingency of the object, brings questions about authorship, originality and insertion of new production methods and fruition in the world of art. 

Keywords: contemporary art, authorship, work of art

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Author Biography

Pérola Mathias, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Doutoranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia (PPGSA) pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), e mestre pela mesma instituição.

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Published

2016-04-15

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MATHIAS, P. Contemporary art: what is it about? Notes taken through the reading of the book “The contingent object of contemporary art” written by Martha Buskirk. Visualidades, Goiânia, v. 13, n. 2, 2016. DOI: 10.5216/vis.v13i2.34101. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/VISUAL/article/view/34101. Acesso em: 27 sep. 2024.

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2015): Dossier: Files, memories, affection

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