Chance

Book Overview

Why chance remains a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world.

The chance situation or random event--whether as a strategy or as a subject of investigation--has been central to many artists' practices across a multiplicity of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, performance, and participatory artworks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513927
• ISBN13: 9780262513920
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher