Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231170215)

In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art's engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events. Taking a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, Gillick follows the response of artists to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology. The great innovations and dislocations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have their place in this timeline, but their traces are alternately amplified and diminished as Gillick moves through artistic reactions to liberalism, mass manufacturing, psychology, nuclear physics, automobiles, and a host of other advances. He intimately ties the origins of contemporary art to the social and technological adjustments of modern life, which artists struggled to incorporate truthfully into their works.

Author: Liam Gillick
ISBN-10: 0231170211
ISBN-13: 9780231170215
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2018
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.50w x 0.60d