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Time / edited by Amelia Groom.

Contributor(s): Groom, Amelia [editor of compilation.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Documents of contemporary artPublisher: London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2013Description: 237 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780854882151 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Time in art | Art, Modern | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 701'.08 Summary: This anthology contextualizes art that proposes alternatives to the models of linear time that have underpinned both capitalism and progressive modernity. While theorists such as Giorgio Agamben and Mieke Bal have proposed 'polychronic', 'heterochronic' or 'anachronic' readings of history, artists have opened up the field of time to the extent that the very notion of the contemporary is brought into question.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This anthology contextualizes art that proposes alternatives to the models of linear time that have underpinned both capitalism and progressive modernity. While theorists such as Giorgio Agamben and Mieke Bal have proposed 'polychronic', 'heterochronic' or 'anachronic' readings of history, artists have opened up the field of time to the extent that the very notion of the contemporary is brought into question.

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