Toward a Lexicon of Usership

Download or read book Toward a Lexicon of Usership written by Stephen Wright and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning away from pursuing art's aesthetic function, many practitioners are redifining their engagement with art, less in terms of authorship than as users of artistic competence, insisting that art foster more robust use values and gain more bite in the real. No genuine self-understanding of the relatonal and dialectical category of usership will be possible until the existent conceptual lexicon is retooled.