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02418aam a2200349 i 4500 001 1430566E688611E8A317244297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180605010123 008 170615s2018 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017028844 020 $a 3034317263 020 $a 9783034317269 035 $a (OCoLC)990248496 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d ERASA $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a N8217.G747 $b J36 2018 082 00 $a 709.05 $2 23 100 1 $a James, Catherine, $d 1962- $e author. 245 10 $a Falling for gravity : $b invisible forces in contemporary art / $c Catherine James. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Peter Lang, $c [2018] 300 $a xiv, 207 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-202) and index. 520 8 $a This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing on material practices ? chiefly sculpture, installation, performance, and film ? this discussion takes account of how and why artists have used gravity and explores the similarities between their work and the popular cultural forms of circus, vaudeville, burlesque, and film. 0Works by Rodney Graham, Stan Douglas, and Robert Smithson are mediated through ideas of Gnostic doubt, atomism, and new materialism. In other examples ? by John Wood and Paul Harrison, Gordon Matta-Clark, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Trisha Brown, and Bas Jan Ader ? mass and momentum, falling objects, and falling bodies are examined in relation to architecture, sculpture, and dance. In performances, projects and events curated by Bruce Nauman, Santiago Sierra, and Catherine Yass, gravity is resisted in Sisyphean ordeals and death-defying stunts. 0This account of contemporary art and performance, read through the invisible membrane of gravity, exposes new and distinctive approaches to agency reduction, authorial doubt, and redemptive failure. 650 0 $a Gravity in art. 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 21st century $x Themes, motives. 650 7 $a Art, Modern $x Themes, motives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816663 650 7 $a Gravity in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903392 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605014630.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1430566E688611E8A317244297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search