June 2017 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York Adair Rounthwaite


Paperback | Jun 2017 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816698738 | 280pp | 254x178mm | RFB | AUD$39.99, NZD$47.99
Hardback | Jun 2017 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816698721 | 288pp | 254x178mm | RFB | AUD$161.99, NZD$194.99

In Asking the Audience, Adair Rounthwaite analyzes the rising popularity of audience participation in American art during the 1980s. From artists and audiences to institutions, funders, and critics, Rounthwaite traces the networks that participatory art creates between various agents, demonstrating how, since the 1980s, leftist political engagement has become a cornerstone of the institutionalized consumption of contemporary art.