November 7, 2010, 12am
e-flux is pleased to announce the release of Boris Groys’ Going Public the third in an ongoing series of books published by e-flux journal with Sternberg Press.
Book launch and Conversation with Saul Anton and Boris Groys
NY Art Book Fair at PS1/MoMA
Sunday, November 7th, 12PM (conference room)
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If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.
Boris Groys (1947, East Berlin) is Professor at New York University and Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Design, Karlsruhe. He is the author of many books, including The Total Art of Stalinism, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, Art Power, The Communist Postscript, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism.
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle, Eds.
To order a copy, please contact Sternberg Press sales: mail@sternberg-press.com
Other titles from e-flux journal:
What Is Contemporary Art?
e-flux journal reader 2009
Coming soon:
e-flux journal reader 2010
www.e-flux.com/journal
www.sternberg-press.com
