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Art andContemporaryCritical Practice
ReinventingInstitutionalCritique Gerald Raunig andGene Ray (eds)
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Art and ContemporaryCritical Practice
Gerald Raunig and Gene Ray (eds)
‘Institutional critique’ is best known through the critical practicethat developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who pre-sented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system. Sincethen it has been pushed in new directions by new generations of artists registering and responding to the global transformations of contemporary life. The essays collected in this volume explore thislegacy and develop the models of institutional critique in ways thatgo well beyond the
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eld of art. Interrogating the shifting relationsbetween ‘institutions’ and ‘critique’, the contributors to this volumeanalyze the past and present of institutional critique and proposelines of future development. Engaging with the work of philoso-phers and political theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler,Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno and others, these es-says re
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ect on the mutual enrichments between critical art practicesand social movements and elaborate the conditions for politicizedcritical practice in the twenty-
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rst century.
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Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique
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