"Establishes the postsensual turn in visual culture and curatorial work, which embraces research, publishing, and knowledge production as central tenets of the new global aesthetics"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Contemporary art exhibitions appeal to cognition as well as the senses, modeling a new and expansive understanding of global aesthetics. In this original work of aesthetic theory, James Voorhies argues that we live in the shadow of old ways of thinking about art that emphasize the immediate visual experience of an autonomous art object. But theory must change as artistic and curatorial produ…