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Toys Redux: An Anthology on Play as Critical Action
Gathering works by Cory Arcangel, Alex Bag & Patterson Beckwith, Judith Bernstein, Vittorio Brodmann, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Simon Denny, Harun Farocki, Tabor Robak and many others, this publication brings together artists who use pop-culture formats and imagery usually addressed to children or teenagers. This adoption of such motifs should not be seen merely as a reference to (or appropriation of) popular culture: rather, it becomes an implicit (or explicit) critique of a kind of capitalist production of consumer worlds that have also infiltrated the field of art. These playful children's or fantasy worlds, with their pop aesthetic and inherent promise of "innocence," contrast with the reality of these neoliberal advertising and market strategies. The publication includes essays by critic Esther Buss, professor Alexander R. Galloway, and art historian and philosopher Hans Ulrich Reck, among others, as well as interviews with the artists.
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Toys Redux: An Anthology on Play as Critical Action
Gathering works by Cory Arcangel, Alex Bag & Patterson Beckwith, Judith Bernstein, Vittorio Brodmann, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Simon Denny, Harun Farocki, Tabor Robak and many others, this publication brings together artists who use pop-culture formats and imagery usually addressed to children or teenagers. This adoption of such motifs should not be seen merely as a reference to (or appropriation of) popular culture: rather, it becomes an implicit (or explicit) critique of a kind of capitalist production of consumer worlds that have also infiltrated the field of art. These playful children's or fantasy worlds, with their pop aesthetic and inherent promise of "innocence," contrast with the reality of these neoliberal advertising and market strategies. The publication includes essays by critic Esther Buss, professor Alexander R. Galloway, and art historian and philosopher Hans Ulrich Reck, among others, as well as interviews with the artists.
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Toys Redux: An Anthology on Play as Critical Action

Toys Redux: An Anthology on Play as Critical Action

Overview

Gathering works by Cory Arcangel, Alex Bag & Patterson Beckwith, Judith Bernstein, Vittorio Brodmann, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Simon Denny, Harun Farocki, Tabor Robak and many others, this publication brings together artists who use pop-culture formats and imagery usually addressed to children or teenagers. This adoption of such motifs should not be seen merely as a reference to (or appropriation of) popular culture: rather, it becomes an implicit (or explicit) critique of a kind of capitalist production of consumer worlds that have also infiltrated the field of art. These playful children's or fantasy worlds, with their pop aesthetic and inherent promise of "innocence," contrast with the reality of these neoliberal advertising and market strategies. The publication includes essays by critic Esther Buss, professor Alexander R. Galloway, and art historian and philosopher Hans Ulrich Reck, among others, as well as interviews with the artists.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783037644249
Publisher: JRP / Editions SA
Publication date: 08/25/2015
Edition description: Bilingual
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Toys Redux-An Introduction Raphael Gygax Judith Welter 5

"All Work and No Play": On the Contemporary State of Commercial Play Esther Buss 11

Terrain and Project- On the Significance of Theories of "Play" for Aesthetics and the Visual Arts Hans Ulrich Reck 17

Gamic Action, Four Moments Alexander R. Galloway 33

Artist Interviews Raphael Gygax Judith Welter Stefanie Wenger 45

Images/Abbildungen 81

List of Works 145

Artist Texts/Künstlertexte Raphael Gygax Judith Welter 149

Toys Redux-Eine Einführung Raphael Gygax Judith Welter 179

«All Work and No Play»-Zur Cegenwart öko-nomisierter Spielfelder Esther Buss 185

Terrain und Entwurf - Zur Bedeutung von Theorien über «Spiel» für Ästhetik und bildende Kunst Hans Ulrich Reck 191

Videospielaktivitäten, Vier Momente Alexander R. Galloway 207

Künstlerinterviews Raphael Gygax & Judith Welter, in Zusammenarbeit mit Stefanie Wenger 219

Authors 261

Colophon 262

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