ON CONTEMPORARY ART

By César Aira. Translated by Katherine Silver. Foreword by Will Chancellor. Afterword by Alexandra KleemanTranslated into English fo r the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist César Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid de dicated to bridging the gap between writing and the visual arts. On Airas dizzying and dazzling path, everything comes under questi onfrom reproducibility of artworks to the value of the written word itself. In the end, Aira leaves us stranded on the bridge betwe en writing...[Read more]