"This book examines contemporary artistic practices since 1990 that engage with, depict, and conceptualize history.
Examining artworks by Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji, Michael Blum, Matthew Buckingham, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Omer Fast, Andrea Geyer, Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Hiwa K, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Deimantas Narkevičius, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Walid Raad, Dierk Schmidt, Erika Tan, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions since 1990 undertakes a thorough methodological reexamination of the contribution of art to history writing and to its theoretical foundations. The analytical instrument of anachrony comes to the fore as an experimental method, as will (para)fiction, counterfactual history, testimonies, ghosts and spectres of the past, utopia, and the ""juridification"" of history. Eva Kernbauer argues that contemporary art—developing its own conceptual approaches to temporality and to historical research—offers fruitful strategies for creating historical consciousness and perspectives for political agency.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, historiography, and contemporary art.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 license."
By:
Eva Kernbauer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9780367763268
ISBN 10: 0367763265
Series: Studies in Art Historiography
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1. Art as Historiography 2. Ready for History: The Explosion of the Documentary 3. The Crux of Authorship 4. Archiving, Recording 5. Showing, Telling, Picturing 6. Performing 7. Counterfactual History, Parafiction, and the Critical Ends of Utopia 8. Testing Truth: Tribunal, Script, Trial 9. Anachronism and Anachrony 10. No End of History: Art and History in the Anthropocene
Eva Kernbauer is Chair of Art History at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Reviews for Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990
"""Kernbauer’s book is an important intervention into (artistic) historiography and global art history methodology. ...Kernbauer’s conceptual history of art’s relation to history, her theoretical reflections on history, history writing and time offer invaluable new insights into the historiographical concepts and challenges that are discussed in contemporary artistic historiographies."" --Journal of Art Historiography"
