Artful objects : Graham Harman on art and the business of speculative realism / contributions by Daniel Birnbaum [and thirteen others] ; edited by Isak Nilson and Erik Wikberg.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-81).
Contents:
The Commercial Value of an Art Object and Its Aesthetic Quality -- What Is an Object? -- Lecture by Graham Harman at Moderna Museet -- Thirteen Questions about the Object to Graham Harman -- The Promise of Object-Oriented Philosophy -- Objects in a Digital World -- Time, Space, and What an Object Is Not -- Traumatized Objects -- The Art Part of Art Objects -- Curating Object Interactions -- Object-Oriented Business -- Objects and the Subject -- Object-Oriented Philosophy, Money, and Politics -- How to Legitimize a Philosophical Orientation : the Case of Speculative Realism -- Art as Advertising as Art -- Organizational Inertia and Symbiosis -- The Commercial Value of an Art Object and Its Aesthetic Quality -- Image Credits. Contributors -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Image Credits.
Summary:
Can objects be traumatized? How does the commercial value of an art object relate to its aesthetic qualities? How do objects interact? These are some of the questions addressed by Graham Harman, the originator of object-oriented philosophy and a central figure of the Speculative Realism school of thought in contemporary philosophy. 'Artful Objects' includes a reproduction of Harman?s lecture ?What Is an Object?? at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, held on occasion of the exhibition Sculpture after Sculpture, with Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, and Katharina Fritsch. Artists, who have expanded the notion of the object in art and society at large. In his lecture, Harman gives a thorough exposition of the object from an ontological standpoint and puts forward a concept of the object that goes beyond reductionist orientations. He declares a philosophical approach bringing philosophy and the arts closely together, where objects are impenetrable to direct knowledge and paraphrase and instead must be approached obliquely and indirectly. The publication also includes a reproduction of a succeeding symposium taking place in the exhibition, where thirteen questions to Graham Harman?among and in relation to the thirteen sculptures of the show?were posed about the implications of object oriented philosophy for art, business administration, and philosophy.0.
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