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What is the future of conceptualism? What expressions can it take in the 21st century? Is there a new role for aesthetic experience in art and, if so, what is that role exactly? Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed uses one of this generation's most important and influential artists to address themes crucial to contemporary aesthetics.
Working in an impressive variety of artistic media, Creed represents a strikingly innovative take on conceptualism. Through his ingenious and thought-provoking work, a team of international philosophers, jurists and art historians illustrate how Creed epitomizes several questions central to philosophical aesthetics today and provides a glimpse of the future both of art and aesthetic discourse. They discuss key concepts for Creed's work, including immediacy (in his photographs of smiling people), compositional order (in his geometric paintings), simplicity (in Work No. 218, a sheet paper crumpled into a ball) and shamelessness (in his videos of vomiting people).
By bringing a working artist into the heart of academic discussions, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed highlights the relevance of philosophical discussions of art to understanding art today.
Contents
Introduction, Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Davide Dal Sasso (University of Turin, Italy)
Statements, Martin Creed
1. Where in the (Art)World is Martin Creed?, David Davies (McGill University, Canada)
2. Martin Creed's 'Workless' Works of Art, Karen E. Gover (Harvard Law School, USA)
3. S T U P I D A R T, Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick, UK)
4. How Not to Be an Uncollectible Artist, Alessandra Donati (University of Milano-Bicocca and Nuova Accademia Belle Arti, Italy) and Anna Pirri Valentini (LUISS University and NABA-Nuova Accademia Belle Arti, Italy)
5. An Expression of the Essential: Martin Creed and the Celebration of the Ordinary, Davide Dal Sasso (University of Turin, Italy)
6. Martin Creed: Conceptual Art and More, Elisa Caldarola (University of Padova, Italy)
7. The Logical and The Phenomenological in Martin Creed's Chairs, Gregory Minissale (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
8. Which 'Martin Creed'? Or Switching from Insignificance to Significance, Clive Cazeaux (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK)
9. Process Art as an Aesthetic Alternative: Martin Creed's Glasgow Connection, Diego Mantoan (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)
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