Beschreibung:
This book begins with the observation that contemporary artists have embraced and employed gravity as an immaterial readymade. Necessarily focusing on material practices - chiefly sculpture, installation, performance, and film - this discussion takes account of how and why artists have used gravity and explores the similarities between their work and the popular cultural forms of circus, vaudeville, burlesque, and film.
CONTENTS: On Shaky Ground - The Cosmic Cage - Heavy Stuff - Vertigo - Critical Mass