How to Do Things with Art

Download or read book How to Do Things with Art written by Dorothea von Hantelmann and published by Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of "How to Do Things with Art" lies the question of art's 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 Seghal, how artists can create and shape social relevance; in other words, to provide what could be called a pragmatic understanding of art's societal impact. The title of the book itself is a play on John Langshaw Austin's seminal lecture series "How to Do Things with Words", in which he discussed the performative, or reality-producing, capacity of language--Publisher.