Sampling and Site-Specific Practice in Contemporary Art - Margot Bouman

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Résumé :

In the early 20th century, copying, cutting and pasting entered the Western European avant-garde through collage and readymades, as artists employed found objects and ephemera to create new meaning from existing materials.

This book explores how this practice has evolved in contemporary art today, looking at its important and distinct outcomes in the practice of artists such as Andrea Fraser, Douglas Gordon, Isaac Julien, Christian Marclay, Amie Siegel and Christopher Williams. It analyses the pivotal consequences of the interrelationships these artists establish between fragments of culture, from television and film, to internet culture and their artwork's site, where the verb to sample has become deeply tied to digital music editing, writing, image production, database searches and social media.

Samples take many forms: quotations of other cultural works...

Biographie:
Margot Bouman is Assistant Professor of Visual Culture at The New School, New York, USA and founding director of the B.F.A. in Design History and Practice offered at Parsons School of Design, New York, USA....

Sommaire:
replicas of other objects...