Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions

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No thinker within the West has had a much wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it’s difficult to discover a current cultural or social phenomenon that may be not in some aspect indebted to the famous philosopher and the Platonic tradition. It must come as no surprise that Recent artists continue to engage with and respond to the ideas of Plato.
 
Accompanying an exhibition on the Getty Villa, this book brings together eleven renowned artists working in quite a few media—Paul Chan, Rachel Harrison, Huang Yong Ping, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Paul McCarthy, Whitney McVeigh, Raymond Pettibon, Adrian Piper, and Michelangelo Pistoletto—all of whom have acknowledged the role of Plato in their artistic process.
 
Featuring candid interviews with the artists, this volume begins with an essay by the critic and curator Donatien Grau that contextualizes Plato in antiquity and within the present day. Recent art, Grau demonstrates, is Platonism stripped bare, and it allows us to reconsider Plato’s philosophy as a deeply human construct, one that remains highly relevant these days.
 

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