Main entry:

Asher, Michael, author.

Title & Author:

Writings 1973-1983 on works 1969-1979 / Michael Asher ; written in collaboration with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh ; edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.

Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, [2021]
©2021

Description:

xi, 229 pages (some folded), 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations, plans, facsimiles ; 31 cm.

Series:

Nova Scotia series ; 15

Notes:
"This 2021 book is a facsimile of the second version of the 1983 book with limited corrections to images and captions only. A list of corrections and errata follows."--Colophon.
Originally published: Halifax, N.S. : Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design ; Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art, 1983.
Facsimile of plans inside of dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-229).

Summary:

"Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979 is an essential document of a decade of formative work by Michael Asher. Originally published in 1983, the book presents 33 works through the artist's writings, photographic documentation, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements, and other ephemera. Asher did not create traditional art objects; instead, he chose to alter the existing institutional apparatus through which art is presented, creating work dependent on the architectural, social, or economic systems that undergird how art is produced and experienced. For example, in 1974, he removed the partition wall dividing the office and gallery space of the Claire Copley Gallery in Los Angeles. In another work from 1978, Asher had a bronze replica of a nineteenth-century sculpture of George Washington moved from the exterior of the Art Institute of Chicago to a room in the museum that housed eighteenth-century art, changing its location, but also its function from a public monument to an indoor sculpture, as it was originally intended. Due to its site specificity and immateriality, Asher's work ceased to exist after an exhibition, which makes this highly sought-after book the definitive mode through which one can gain insight into the work he made during this period. As the artist states in the introduction: "This book as a finished product will have a material permanence that contradicts the actual impermanence of the art-work, yet paradoxically functions as a testimony to that impermanence of my production." Initiated by Kasper König, Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979 was originally co-published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and was largely shaped by Asher's close collaboration with art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, who succeeded König as editor of the press." --Publisher's website, accessed March 7,2022.

ISBN:

9781732098640 paperback
1732098646 paperback

Subject:

Asher, Michael.
Conceptual art United States.
Art, American 20th century.
Art conceptuel États-Unis.
Art américain 20e siècle.
Art, American
Conceptual art
United States.

Added entries:

Buchloh, B. H. D., author, editor.
Asher, Michael. Works. Selections.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Primary Information (Organization), publisher.
Nova Scotia series (Halifax, N.S.) ; 15.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315818
Call No.: 315818
Status: Available