Asking the Audience

In Asking theAudience, Adair Rounthwaite analyzes the rising popularity of audienceparticipation in American art during the 1980s. From artists and audiences toinstitutions, funders, and critics, Rounthwaite traces the networks thatparticipatory art creates between various agents, demonstrating how, since the1980s, leftist political engagement has become a cornerstone of theinstitutionalized consumption of contemporary art.