{"product_id":"situation-aesthetics-kirsi-peltomaki-9780262526081","title":"Situation Aesthetics: The Work of Michael Asher","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book-length study of this influential artist's work, focusing on the participatory role of the human subject rather than the art object.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Asher doesn't make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories, or museums' own walls. Since the late 1960s, Asher has been creating situations that have not only taught us about the conditions and contexts of contemporary art, but have worked to define it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSituation Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e, Kirsi Peltom ki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members). Drawing on art criticism, the reports of viewers and participants in Asher's projects, and the artist's own archives, Peltom ki offers a comprehensive account of Asher's work over the past four decades. Because of the intensely site-specific nature of this work, as well as the artist's refusal to reconstruct past works or mount retrospectives, many of the projects Peltom ki discusses are described here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy emphasizing the social and psychological sites of art rather than the production of autonomous art objects, Peltom ki argues, Asher constructs experientially complex situations that profoundly affect those who encounter them, bringing about both personal and institutional transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kirsi Peltomaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262526085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262526081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.09h x 7.01w x 0.60d","brand":"Kirsi Peltomaki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094086177023,"sku":"9780262526081","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f3fde08d-8c68-4cc4-addc-4c7ee9398dd4.jpg?v=1724843644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/situation-aesthetics-kirsi-peltomaki-9780262526081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}