Summary
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Spectacle
Fall 2014
Are we living in a time when capitalism holds total sway over art production? Is the spectacle synonymous with alienation of the individual? Are there any positive aspects to this spectacularization of culture to compensate? The next issue of esse examines new forms of the spectacle by observing its different manifestations on today’s society, and particularly in the contemporary art field, in which the appeal of the spectacular is increasingly unrelenting.
Editorial
Feature
Toward a Critical Mode of Spectacularity: Thoughts on a Terminological Review
Spectacle, Communication, and the End of Art
GirlsGirlsGirls
Hennessy Youngman and the New Art Criticism
Spectacularization in Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Exhausting the Spectacular in Nicolas Boone
In the Shadows Of the Floodlights: DARE-DARE at Quartier Des Spectacles
Off-Features
Columns
Reviews
Young Critics
Current Issue
Plastics
Winter 2025
Analyzing plastic in the field of art runs the risk of raising many environmental dilemmas. Far from extolling plastic yet without denying its utility, this issue is interested in our ways of coexisting with synthetic material in order to evaluate the consequences and seek alternative solutions and to claim a kinship with what gives this material its glory: its plasticity, which expresses the power both to receive and to give form.
Cover: Dan Lam
Nibble, 2020.
Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas