Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art Andrew Willis

Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art Andrew WillisTime, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art presents a major study of time as a key aesthetic dimension of recent art practices. This book explores different aspects of time across a broad range of artistic media and draws on recent movements in philosophy, science and technology to show how artists generate temporal experiences that resist the standardized time of modernity: Olafur Eliasson's melting icebergs produce fragile temporal ecologies;

This collection interrogates and overturns the typical hierarchies of substance over style

and of material with symbolic economies

Her defence against the charge of adultery transforms the lurid tale of crime into high tragedy

Caged crinolines that encased the hapless wearer in hoops of steel

In prodding the inalienable link between love and authority

Money Talks offers a provocative and pathbreaking demonstration of the value of incorporating approaches from media and cultural studies into an understanding of economic issues

What is the optimum size of government

comparing his career to that of Ira Aldridge

is at the same time enamoured of and disgusted by

but to reconstruct its preliminary stage which is here labelled the Industrial Enlightenment

Examines various stage and screen versions of the play which reflect or challenge current views about race and gender

all used as a reflective framework to illuminate case studies from a wide range of teaching artist practice