Overview
- Employs a multidisciplinary approach drawing from art history and theory, visual communication, philosophy, discourse analysis, literary criticism, and social semiotics
- Uses case studies from different geographical and socio-political sites: the UK, the USA, and Argentina
- Stakes a claim that can be applied to visual culture studies and suggests that conceptual art and other forms of art can be understood not only through an engagement with art’s aesthetic, but also its rhetoric
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About this book
This book examines the use of image and text juxtapositions in conceptual art as a strategy for challenging several ideological and institutional demands placed on art. While conceptual art is generally identified by its use of language, this book makes clear exactly how language was used. In particular, it asks: How has the presence of language in a visual art context changed the ways art is talked about, theorised and produced? Image and Text in Conceptual Art demonstrates how artworks communicate in context and evaluates their critical potential. It discusses international case studies and draws resources from art history and theory, philosophy, discourse analysis, literary criticism and social semiotics. Engaging the critical and social dimensions of art, it proposes three methods of analysis that consider the work’s performative gesture, its logico-semantic relations and the rhetorical operations in the discursive creation of meaning. This book offers a comprehensive method of analysis that can be applied beyond conceptual art.
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About the author
Eve Kalyva’s research concerns post-sixties and contemporary art, multimodality and the relation between art and politics. She has taught at universities in the United Kingdom and Argentina, and collaborated with international art institutions as curator and artist in residence. Her publications cover art history and criticism, philosophy, social semiotics, image and text studies, Latin American studies, museum studies and visual culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Image and Text in Conceptual Art
Book Subtitle: Critical Operations in Context
Authors: Eve Kalyva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45086-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45085-8Published: 14 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83205-0Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45086-5Published: 29 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 264
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Fine Arts, American Culture, British Culture, Latin American Culture