Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

by Claire Bishop

This searing critique of participatory art--from its development to its political ambitions--is "an essential title for contemporary art history scholars and students as well as anyone who has . . . thought, 'Now that's art!' or 'That's art?'" (Library Journal)

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844676900
• ISBN13: 9781844676903
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"