The one and the many: contemporary collaborative art in a global context

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Semantics of Collaboration 2. Art Practice and the Intellectual Baroque Chapter 1: Autonomy, Antagonism, and the Aesthetic 19 1. From Text to Action 2. Park Fiction, Ala Plastica, and Dialogue 3. Relational Antagonism 4. The Risk of Diversity 5. Programmatic Multiplicity 6. Art Theory and the Post-structuralist Canon Chapter Two: The Genius of the Place 67 1. Lessons in Futility 2. Enclosure Acts 3. The Twelfth Seat and the Mirrored Ceiling 4. The Atelier as Workshop 5. Labor, Praxis, and Representation 6. The Divided and Incomplete Subject of Yesterday 7. Memories of Development 8. The Limits of Ethical Capitalism 9. The Art of the Locality Chapter Three: Eminent Domain: Art and Urban Space 155 1. Blindness and Insight 2. The Invention of the Public 3. The Boulevards of the Inner City 4. Park Fiction: Desire, Resistance, and Complicity 5. A Culture of Needles: Project Row Houses in Houston Notes 229 References 281 Index 295