{"product_id":"9783037641958","title":"Art Is a Problem: Selected Criticism, Essays, Interviews and Curatorial Projects (1986-2012)","description":"This volume of selected essays, interviews, reviews and curatorial texts, spanning the 1986-2012 period, represents a significant part of Joshua Decter's ongoing work as a critic, curator and educator. In fact, the writings presented here--as edited by John Miller--form a discourse that engages the interrelationship of these vocations. Decter rejects the conventional form-content dichotomy; rather, he views the artwork from a public perspective and consistently probes its placement in a cultural continuum, and the social relations organized around it. Among the topics Decter addresses in \u003ci\u003eArt Is a Problem\u003c\/i\u003e are: institutional critique, the relationship between art and politics, the privatization of the public sphere and curatorial practices. \"If art is a problem,\" he says, \"this book does not claim to be the solution a more difficult question to consider is whether art ever did pose any problems--and what criteria would we use to measure this?\"","brand":"JRP, Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044620124400,"sku":"9783037641958","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783037641958_p0.jpg?v=1763716843","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783037641958","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}