Monday, May 21, 2007

Info Binge: Participation

So many books, so little time: some of what I'm reading and excited about, artwise.

Participation / Claire Bishop (2006) Just picked up at library today, looks like best reader I've seen so far on art that engages the viewer as producer.

The following are also on the same or related subject:

What we want is free : generosity and exchange in recent art / edited by Ted Purves (2005)

Conversation pieces : community and communication in modern art / Grant H. Kester (2004)

New practices, new pedagogies : a reader / [edited by] Malcolm Miles (2005)

They all seem to reference this one:

Relational Aesthetics / Nicolas Bourriaud (1998) which I haven't been able to find yet, but is excerpted in Bishop's Participation above.

Eventually I want to check this one out:

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, & Art / Lewis Hyde (1998)

1 comment:

shapeshifter said...

Thanks so much for all the great book tips! Thta's exactly the subject I'm interested in. Heaven sent advice: )