'In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story,"The Unknown Masterpiece," in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.' (Back cover)
This book is a dissertation and a collection of interviews with artists, art collectors, and curators about the future of art. With commentary by curator Chuz Martinez.
Note: Accompanying DVD featuring the film The Future of Art directed by Niedling and Niermann is kept at a separate location (location code: CD.001676). Please ask library staff for assistance with access.
Onsite
English
2011
320
9781934105634
1
dissertation,
interview documentation
0: Prologue
A Brief (Art) History of the Twenty-First Century
1: Investigation
Entropy / A Flawless Work of Art / Role Play - Erik NIEDLING
Exhibition as Experiment / True Democracy / Building a City - Olafur ELIASSON
Weirdo in the Program / Social Commitment / The Art World and Alcohol - Gabriel VON LOEBELL
Ideal Artist Biography / Quantity and Quality / The Ultimate Luxury Good - Philomene MAGERS
Art as a Mirror of the Times / Last Will / The Coming Crisis in the Art Market - Harald FALCKENBERG
A Fictional Artwork of the Future / Man of Sorrows / Bullet Holes - Antje MAJEWSKI
Art Out of People / The First One Billion Dollar Artwork / One-Hit Wonder - Damien HIRST
2: Creation
Collector Princes / An Artwork for the Twenty-Second Century / Tetris - Gregor JANSEN
Expanded Curator / The Art World as Salon / The Found Pyramid - Hans Ulrich OBRIST
Pyramid Mountain - Erik NIEDLING
Collecting as Addiction / Collecting as Art / The Inverse Mausoleum - Thomas OLBRICHT
3: Incubation
Monkey by the Computer / Art That Everybody Understands / Base Camp - Olaf BREUNING
Art Substituting Magic / Better Living through Chemistry / 99% Populism - Terence KOH, 許漢威
Deconditioning / The Pandrogyne / DNA Mysteries - Genesis P-ORRIDGE
The Masterpiece / Gallery vs. Auction and Fair / The Career Changer - Friedrich PETZEL
Hypnosis - Marcos LUTYENS
4: Presentation
What Is Art? / Everyone Has to Be an Artist / After the End of Mass Culture / Egypt as a Quick Run - Boris GROYS
Artist Persona / Shoot the Freak - Erik NIEDLING
The Artwork as Problem / Big Art / The Artwork as Rumor - Tobias REHBERGER
Singing Machines / Mao & the Rosary / The Productive Forces of the Imagination - Thomas BAYRLE
Slighting Castles / The Rivalry of Collectors / The Amber Room - Hans Georg WAGNER
5: Epilogue
Meadow
Appendix
Genealogy of Pyramid Mountain: I. The Great Pyramid / II. The Collector's Tomb / III. The Chamber
Commentary
Futures of Art - Chus MARTINEZ
The Future of Art: A Manual
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