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e-flux Journal Boris Groys: Going Public

Artist

Boris Groys

Date

2010

Publisher

Sternberg Press

Format

Artists' Books

ISBN

978-1-934105-30-6

Size

10.8 × 17.8 × 1 cm

Length

168 

Description

Softcover, perfect bound, b/w illustrations, English text.

Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

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 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.

Design by Jeff Ramsey, cover design by Liam Gillick

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