Conversation pieces :

Kester, Grant H.

Conversation pieces : community and communication in modern art / Grant H. Kester ; with a new preface. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013. - xx, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-231) and index.

The eyes of the vulgar -- Duration, performativity, and critique -- Dialogical aesthetics -- A critical framework for dialogical practice -- Community and communicability.

Grant Kester discusses the disparate network of artists & collectives united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that crosses boundaries of race, religion, & culture.


Interactive art.
Communication in art.
Artists and community.
Social problems in art.