Between Conventionality and Event: Art
Abstract
How to Do Things With Art examines the work of selected contemporary representative artists with an eye for the pieces' specifically social repercussions and their experience-shaping function. Author Dorothea von Hantelmann tests essential aspects of the performativity debate in connection with John L. Austin and Judith Butler against the work and actions of James Coleman, Daniel Buren, Tino Sehgal, and Jeff Koons. Borrowing a research methodology from theoretical linguistics and art history, von Hantelmann's monograph also addresses the question: Which diegetic effect can be attributed to performative art that, of necessity, originates in conventions?
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