Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art

An edited collection consisting of essays and artworks by distinguished and emerging theorists, artists, and scholars. It explains how our contemporary moment is absurd and how absurdity is a useful, potentially radical tool within the contemporary.35 b&w illus.

Katherine Guinness is assistant professor of critical studies in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Charlotte Kent is associate professor of visual culture at Montclair State University, editor-at large for The Brooklyn Rail , and an arts writer.