NOTES ON REDUCTION: CONTRIBUTIONS TO A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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https://doi.org/10.33871/sensorium.2025.12.10995Keywords:
Redução em arte, Renato de Fusco, Modelos de Tempo em Historiografia da Arte, Arte Conceitual, História da arte contemporâneaAbstract
This article discusses the idea of reduction as a notional issue in the historiography of contemporary art. Given the pressing debate about models of time and their regimes in the history of art, this research seeks to identify theoretical and methodological expedients traversed by artistic practices from the second half of the 20th century that imply the notion of reduction. To this end, we propose here a temporal framework that starts with Marcel Duchamp in the 1940s, passing through the texts of Clement Greenberg in the 1950s and Barbara Rose in the 1960s, until we arrive at the regime of temporality inferred from Storia dell’Arte Contemporanea, written by Renato de Fusco in 1983. These writings allow us to reflect on the line of reduction transversally to a critique of models of temporality present in the process of historicization of contemporary art, raising fundamental questions for the understanding of conceptualist tendencies and objectuality since the second half of the 20th century.
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