Failure Whitechapel Series

Local Description

Can failure be a mode of resistance in an increasingly intolerable world? To what extent can failure be seen as a productive, or at least dynamic, mode? Can any new space be claimed for art without doubt, error, and the refusal of (or recognition of the insufficiency of) existing dogma? Can failure be a strategy of cultural production as well as a world view? A stimulating anthology of art writing and cultural theory. 

 

Description

Investigations of failure as a key concern--as theme, strategy, and world view--of recent art.

Reviews

"...the book does what this kind of project should: it introduces you to unfamiliar ideas, authors, and practices; offers new approaches; and raises new questions. Presumably, it's intended for people who make or write about art, but you certainly don't have to be an artist to appreciate new ways of thinking about failure and, not coincidentally, success." Publishers Weekly

Author description

Lisa Le Feuvre is Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England.