Fragment, experiment, dissonant prologue: modernism, realism and the photodocument

John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. He is the author of a number of books including The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday (Manchester University Press, 1998), The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade (Verso, 2008) and The Necessity of Errors (Verso, 2011). He has also contributed to various journals including Radical Philosophy, New Left Review, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, New Literary History, Third Text and Manifesta.

In 2008 John Roberts was invited to give a lecture at MACBA in the context of the seminar The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, which has been updated here.

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2011
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Quaderns portàtils
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8
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Quaderns portàtils
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Eng ISSN: 1886-5259