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Xenophobia, stereotypes and empirical acculturation : neo-Kantianism in Adrian Piper’s performance-based conceptual art
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Costello, Diarmuid (2018) Xenophobia, stereotypes and empirical acculturation : neo-Kantianism in Adrian Piper’s performance-based conceptual art. In: Bulter, Connie and Platzer, David, (eds.) Adrian Piper: A Reader. New York: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). ISBN 9781633450332
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Abstract
Since I make art that targets racism and xenophobia, [my philosophy colleagues] infer that I must work in this area of research in philosophy as well, which is false (my primary philosophy research is in metaethics and Kant’s metaphysics). Or, what is worse, they read into my philosophy research a “subtext” of commentary on race of their own devising, then respond to that rather than to what I actually say.
[My art colleagues] who have intuited the importance of delving into my philosophical research in order to fully understand my art work have distanced themselves from me and my work altogether; or have complained that is over-intellectualized; or have reasoned that it can’t be that significant if it can’t stand on its own.
Whereas philosophers tend to suffer from anomalophobia of the senses, artists often suffer from anomalophobia of the intellect. Present one with the creative products of the other and the reaction is usually instant antipathy. That is why I never do so unless asked, and then only with great trepidation.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Conceptual art., Art -- Philosophy., Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy., Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Philosophy., Piper, Adrian,1948--Criticism and interpretation | ||||||
Publisher: | Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | ||||||
Place of Publication: | New York | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781633450332 | ||||||
Book Title: | Adrian Piper: A Reader | ||||||
Editor: | Bulter, Connie and Platzer, David | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2018 | ||||||
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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Description: | Adrian Piper’s artwork, over the course of her fifty-year career, has been critical in shaping how we think and talk about contemporary art and the role of the artist. Her best-known and most frequently discussed works—Food for the Spirit, of 1971; Funk Lessons, of 1983–84; Cornered, of 1988—have made the questions of how perception, racism, and human interaction may be approached through art, and what the effect of such art might be on viewers, infinitely deeper and more complex. The essays in this volume broaden the thinking about her work, tracking her development from first-generation Conceptual art in the mid-1960s, through her early performance works of the 1970s, her participatory works of the 1980s, the provocative identity-based works of the 1990s, and finally to her recent lecture-based meta-performances. They place Piper’s multivalent work amidst current discourses in aesthetics, Kantian philosophy, critical race theory, and theories and histories of Conceptual art, and bring updated scholarship to a radical reconsideration of her work. |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 January 2017 | ||||||
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