How to Do Things with Art

How to Do Things with Art. At the heart of How to Do Things with Art lies the question of arts relevance to society. How does art become politically or socially significant? This book attempts to answer this question on a theoretical level, and to indicate, through the analysis of works by James Col [...]
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How to Do Things with Art. At the heart of How to Do Things with Art lies the question of arts relevance to society. How does art become politically or socially significant? This book attempts to answer this question on a theoretical level, and to indicate, through the analysis of works by James Coleman, Daniel Buren, Jeff Koons, and Tino Sehgal, how artists can create and shape social relevance in other words, to provide what could be called a pragmatic understanding of arts societal impact. If Hantelmanns line of argument is based on the two theoretical premises of Langshaw Austins and Judith Butlers notion of performativity, this