• Publisher: *cf.
• 125 pages
• Author: Rastko Močnik
• Original title: Veselje v gledanju

The texts in the book deal with looking, which, as the author emphasises, is a practice. The work considers the theory of visual arts and it does so from “both ends”: from the perspective of art practice and the perspective of the looking practice. The book is divided into three parts. The first and the third part examine and analyse the works of established conceptual artists (Marko A. Kovačič, Alenka Pirman, Sanja Ivekovič). The second part develops a theory of art practices and reflects on the practices of fine art that emerge in the historical moments of social and aesthetic revolutions. In his concrete analyses, the author connected his conceptual apparatus with a historical approach and, on the basis of a structural analysis, presented the historical development of visual arts while attempting to answer the open questions in contemporary art.

About the author

Rastko Močnik

Rastko Močnik (1944) is a retired Professor of Sociology of Culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His fields of interest are primarily the theories of ideology, the theories of discourses, theoretical sociology, theoretical psychoanalysis, semiotics, and the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. In the previous two decades, he has significantly contributed to the generational renewal of the local theoretical production in historical materialism.