TY - BOOK AU - Bourriaud, Nicolas TI - Relational Aesthetics SN - 978-2840660606 U1 - ARTS PY - 1998/// CY - . PB - Les Presses Du RĂ©el KW - Aesthetics KW - Arts KW - Language Learning KW - Teaching Practice KW - Theory and criticism N1 - Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting ER -