Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice

Christian Mieves, Irene Brown

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Routledge
30 September 2020

Theory of art; Art & design styles: from c 1960

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science. However, there is little acknowledgement of the relationship between the visual arts and wonder. This book presents a new perspective on this overlooked connection, allowing a unique insight into the role of wonder in contemporary visual practice. Artists, curators and art theorists give accounts of their approach to wonder through the use of materials, objects and ways of exhibiting. These accounts not only raise issues of a particular relevance to the way in which we encounter our reality today but ask to what extent artists utilize the function of wonder purposely in their work.

Edited by: Christian Mieves, Irene Brown
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367872526
ISBN 10: 0367872528
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Christian Mieves and Irene Brown Part I: Taxonomy, Structures and Identities 1. Archives of Wonder: Collecting the Liminal in Contemporary Art Tiffany Shafran 2. One Hour: Visual Practice Exploring a Collective History Shirley Chubb 3. Wonders Without Wonder: Divining the Donkey-Rat Will Buckingham 4. Wonder, Subversion and Newness Runette Kruger 5. The Snow Globe as Object of Wonder Anne Hilker 6. From Nimbus Cloud to Cloud Canyon: Artistic Practice and the Idea of Wonder in Contemporary Art Christian Mieves Part II: Contemporary Curatorial Practices 7. Spectral Exhibitions: ‘The Wonders of the Invisible World’ (or, Exhibiting Contradiction – Known Knowns and Unknown Unknowns) Alistair Robinson 8. Wonder on Tour Irene Brown 9. Coral-Fishing and Pearl-Diving: Curatorial Approaches to Doubt and Wonder Marion Endt-Jones 10. Preternatural: Curating Wonder Celina Jeffery Part III: Contemporary Artistic Practice and the Function of Wonder 11. Collecting Skulls and Hair: In Pursuit of Wonder in Death’s Chambers Jane Wildgoose 12. Wunderkammer of the Now: In Search of the Wunderbare: Romanticising as a Contemporary Fine Art Practice Laura Kuch 13. The Enemies of Wonder: An Itinerant Conversation Silke Dettmers and Mark Sanderson 14. Claude Glass Re-visited: ‘...the largest down to the smallest balls of mercury reflect the entire universe.’ Alison Dalwood 15. Photographing the

Christian Mieves is a painter and Senior Lecturer at Wolverhampton University, UK. Recent publications include journal articles on Luc Tuymans, Dana Schutz and the Beach in Contemporary Art Making. He has been co- editor of the special edition of the Journal of Visual Art Practice 9.3 (2010) and works currently on a special journal edition on erosion and visibility (forthcoming 2017). Irene Brown is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Newcastle University, UK Recent projects include Poetics of the Archive: Creative Community Engagement with the Bloodaxe Archive, an AHRC funded project at the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, 2015; Phantasmagoria Electric, an installation, exhibited as part of the Twice Upon a Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses, Centre for Fine Art Research, School of Art, Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, 2014 and International Research Fellowship at the Bakken Museum of Electricity and Mesmerism, Minneapolis, USA, 2013.

Reviews for Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice

"""Brown and Mieves bring a much neglected attention to the topic of wonder and the visual arts in this edited collection of reflections drawn from a diverse range of distinguished scholars and practitioners. The emphasis on practice is to be welcomed. It goes beyond theory into the studio and the role wonder has in the production and reception of visual arts. This stimulating volume is a must read for academics and practitioners in the visual arts."" - Christopher Smith, University of the Arts London, UK and Editor, Journal of Visual Art Practice"