Title & Author:

The presence of absence : new installations : a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York / Nina Felshin, guest curator ; essay by Nina Felshin.

Publication:

New York : Independent Curators, [1988]
©1988

Description:

60 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Artists include: Judith Barry ; Daniel Buren ; Daniel L. Collins ; Dan Graham ; Jenny Holzer ; Patrick Ireland ; Justen Ladda ; Sol Lewitt ; Lorie Novak ; Buky Schwartz ; Leni Schwendinger ; Lawrence Wiener ; Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Catalog of an exhibition held from Jan. 11, 1989 to Dec. 21, 1990 at Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson ; Laumeier Sculpture Park and Garden, St. Louis, Missouri ; Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York ; Oakville Galleries: Gairloch Gallery, Oakville, Ontario ; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky ; Longview Museum and Arts Center, Longview, Texas ; Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho ; Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania ; The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa ; University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Includes bibliographical references (page 17).

Summary:

"...the exhibition excludes both artists and objects. Participating museums receive the artists' written instructions, diagrams, slides, and transparencies--but never the works of art themselves. These are created anew at each site by local artists, art students, or museum staff and cease to exist at the end of the presentation. None of the works requires the presence of the artist to be executed. None involves tangible, unique objects."--from introductory essay.
"In keeping with the spirit of this unusual exhibition we have chosen to reproduce materials on the following pages that have been selected from each artist's installation instructions rather than to publish photographs of the actual installations. Many of these illustrations are of diagrams, sketches, or photographic materials."--p. 19

ISBN:

0916365263 (paperback)
9780916365264 (paperback)

Subject:

Installations (Art) United States Exhibitions.
Conceptual art United States Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art conceptuel États-Unis Expositions.
Art 20e siècle.
Art, Modern
Conceptual art
Installations (Art)
United States

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Felshin, Nina, curator, writer of supplementart textual content.
Independent Curators Incorporated.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86038
Call No.: ID:93-B178
Status: Available