Mieves / Brown Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-51792-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten

Reihe: 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mieves, Christian

Brown, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Christian Mieves and Irene Brown

Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 Wunderkammer: a Personal Journey of art Making and Meaning

Terry Ownby

16. Gothic Wonder in the Contemporary Landscape

Juliette Losq

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Mieves is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the School of Art and Design at the University of Wolverhampton, UK

Irene Brown is Lecturer in Fine Art in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK