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The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art: Negative Work

The Turn to Provisionality in Contemporary Art: Negative Work

Hardcover

Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art

PhilosophyArt Criticism & Theory

ISBN10: 135024371X
ISBN13: 9781350243712
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 12 2023
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In his influential essay Provisional Painting, Raphael Rubinstein applied the term provisional to contemporary painters whose work looked intentionally casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling; who appeared to have deliberately turned away from strong painting for something that seemed to constantly risk failure or inconsequence.

In this collection of essays, Rubinstein expands the scope of his original article by surveying the historical and philosophical underpinnings of provisionality in recent visual art, as well as examining the works of individual artists in detail. He also engages crucial texts by Samuel Beckett and philosopher Gianni Vattimo.

Re-examining several decades of painting practices, Rubinstein argues that provisionality, in all its many forms, has been both a foundational element in the history of modern art and the encapsulation of an attitude that is profoundly contemporary.

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