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Relational art

LC control no.sh2004000675
LC classificationN6498.R43
Topical headingRelational art
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Variant(s)Relational aesthetics
Relationism in art
See alsoArt, Modern--20th century
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Art, Modern--21st century
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Scope noteHere are entered works on art which emphasizes social exchange, situations and experiences, with the presence of objects being less important.
Found inWork cat.: 2004412056: CAP : art relationnel, 2002.
Bourriaud, N. Relational aesthetics, c2002: p. 113 (Relational (art): a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space)
Touch: relational art from the 1990s to now, 2002: p. 1 ("Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational aesthetics, a collection of his writing from the early 1990s, is a bricolage of various critical and philosophical concepts that construct his definition of 'relational art'.")
Wikipedia, July 20, 2011 (Relational art or relational aesthetics)
1Fmediaproject website, July 20, 2011: press release for Ethan Shoshan exhibition, dated Feb. 12, 2011 (Shoshan "is a social ecologist who uses relational aesthetics to highlight the importance of everyday gestures")
New York times, July 1, 2010, viewed online July 19, 2011: review of Philippe Parreno show by Roberta Smith (relational aesthetics where "artist-orchestrated social exchanges, situations and communal experiences are generally preferred to art objects")
Not found inAAT, July 20, 2011