Situation

by Claire Doherty

Book Overview

Key texts on the notion of "situation" in art and theory that consider site, place, and context, temporary interventions, remedial actions, place-making, and public space.

Situation--a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations--has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513056
• ISBN13: 9780262513050
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher