The Perpetual Guest keyword-commons ” Art Has No History

” Art Has No History

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture

and urban iconography

the role of the subject in Althusser

for the first time anywhere in the world

The Perpetual Guest keyword-commons ” Art Has No HistoryThe idea of contemporary art sometimes allows us to pretend we have made a clean break with the past. In The Perpetual Guest, poet and critic Barry Schwabsky demonstrates that any robust understanding of arts present must also account for the ongoing life and changing fortunes of its past. In surveying the art world of this past decade, Schwabsky attends not only to its most significant newer facesamong them, Kara Walker, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ai Weiwei,