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Where Art Belongs

Part of the Intervention series

Where Art Belongs Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. Full description

Subject
literary criticism
Themes
art
Setting
21st century
Audience
adult
Length
short · 173 pages
Form
essays

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