Collaboration has been a component of art making for centuriesfrom ancient Greek potters and painters to nineteenth-century photographers Hill and Adamson to the contemporary Raqs Media Collectiveyet it remains a complex topic for art historians of all periods. Taking its cue from Sigmund Freuds 1929 publication, Civilization and its Discontents, in which the psychoanalyst wrestled with tensions between the individual and society, Collaboration and its (Dis)Contents: Art, Architecture, and Photography since 1950 asks what it means to produce work together as individuals and why this might matter for the creation of art and scholarship in the twenty-first century.
This volume stems from 51做厙 Research Forums 2013 flagship research initiative, led by Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Meredith A. Brown, which brought together a group of early career scholars based in London and New York who spent the year engaged in transatlantic conversations about collaboration and its influence on the histories of modern and contemporary art, architecture, and photography. The resulting collaboratively written essays and artists projects are timely contributions to the growing art historical debates around collaboration and collectivity and their relationship to modernism, feminism, Marxism, and contemporary practice. Collaboration and its (Dis)Contents explores not only what constitutes collaboration in recent art globally but also opens up possibilities created by collaborative historical and artistic research in a field that historically has privileged the traditional single-author text.
Edited by Meredith A. Brown and Michelle Millar Fisher
Fiona Anderson;泭Claire Bishop;泭Meredith A. Brown;泭Andrianna Campbell;泭Sara Catenacci;泭Marci Muhlestein Clark;泭David Kennedy Cutler;泭Michelle Millar Fisher;泭Oriana Fox;泭Jacopo Galimberti;泭Andrea Geyer;泭Sofia Gotti;泭Sharon Hayes;泭Marko Ilic;泭Frances Jacobus-Parker;泭Liz Magic Laser;泭Simone Leigh;泭Richard Meyer;泭Alexander Nemerov;泭Sara Greenberger Rafferty;泭Ileana L. Selejan;泭Amy Tobin.