MATERIALITY

Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism's tendency to privilege form over matter w as paralleled by technically-based approaches in art history that reinforced connoisseurship via the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning of hair in David Hammons' installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, one needs a very different set of methodological tools.This anthology focuses on the moments when m aterials ...[Read more]