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Model Collapse: European Contemporary Art in a Time of Democratic Crisis

Model Collapse: European Contemporary Art in a Time of Democratic Crisis

Caplan, Lindsay
Greaves, Kerry

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryEuropean Art

ISBN10: 1526177560
ISBN13: 9781526177568
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 254
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

A ground-breaking exploration of how art responds to democratic crisis.

Is democracy over? Did we ever really have it? Most people would agree that today democracy finds itself in crisis. As this crisis has intensified, art has emerged as an important means of experimenting with new democratic processes and possibilities.

In Model collapse, an incisive group of art historians and theorists investigate the relationship between art and democracy since the 1990s. Exploring a wide range of artistic responses, from interactive public sculptures to autonomous curatorial projects, critical engagement with electoral politics and creative street protest, they offer fresh insights into the limits of representation, the appeal of collaboration and the role of the nation-state in post-national frameworks.

'Model collapse' is what happens when large language models start learning from their own generated data and lose all connection to reality. This book examines the multiple, intersecting crises that shape the conditions for artistic practice and define its socio-political aims. It advances our understanding of how art can contribute to one of the most vital political issues of our time.

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