
A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life (Hardback)
Mira Schor (author)- Temporarily unavailable
Stay one step ahead and let us notify you when this item is next available to order
Email me when available
Enter your email below and we will notify you when this item is next available to order.

Thank you
We will contact you when this item is next available to order.
In essays such as "The ism that dare not speak its name," "Generation 2.5," "Like a Veneer," "Modest Painting," "Blurring Richter," and "Trite Tropes, Cliches, or the Persistence of Styles," Schor considers how artists relate to and represent the past and how the art market influences their choices: whether or not to disavow a social movement, to explicitly compare their work to that of a canonical artist, or to take up an exhausted style. She places her writings in the rich transitory space between the near past and the "nextmodern." Witty, brave, rigorous, and heartfelt, Schor's essays are impassioned reflections on art, politics, and criticism.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822345848
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 703 g
Dimensions: 241 x 159 x 30 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"This collection of essays by one of the most engaging writers of contemporary art critically excavates and redefines the enduring questions in aesthetics and politics with extraordinary verve and urgency."-Gunalan Nadarajan, Vice Provost for Research, Maryland Institute College of Art
"An excellent new book. . . ." -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *
"Witty and lucid, showing that she's a believer in art's power, despite all the naysaying." -- David O'Neill * Bookforum *
"Schor is both an artist and a writer, maybe the perfect person to consider in this search for uncorrupt, valuable criticism. In her excellent book A Decade of Negative Thinking, she describes anonymous online commenting as the worst possible type of criticism, because it almost always falls into what she calls the 'sucks/bullshit' mode. (Ah, yup.) If you're looking for the opposite of that, pick up the book." -- Jen Graves * The Stranger *
"Schor stakes out her own distinctive critical territory at the intersections of imagination and practice, concept and craft, anger and hope, humor and gravity. . . . It's refreshing to accompany Schor as she look sat and opines on the state of culture. As she concludes in the book's final essay, two qualities an artist can use to escape the trap of recipe art are 'necessity , and having something to say with an investment in the formal means you use to say it.' Schor has both." -- Kathleen Rooney * Bitch *
"The essays collected in A Decade of Negative Thinking present lucid, highly engaged and engaging reflections on the politics, rhetoric and political economy of artistic practice." -- Matt Davies * Visual Studies *
You may also be interested in...
Please sign in to write a review
Sign In / Register
Sign In
Download the Waterstones App
Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App?
Click & Collect
Please note that owing to current COVID-19 restrictions, many of our shops are closed. Find out more by clicking here.