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Unlike traditional art works, installation art has no autonomous existence. It is usually created at the exhibition site, and its essence is spectator participation. Installation art originated as a radical art form presented only at alternative art spaces;(...)
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April 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
From margin to center : the spaces of installation art
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Unlike traditional art works, installation art has no autonomous existence. It is usually created at the exhibition site, and its essence is spectator participation. Installation art originated as a radical art form presented only at alternative art spaces; its assimilation into mainstream museums and galleries is a relatively recent phenomenon. The move of installation art from the margin to the center of the art world has had far-reaching effects on the works created and on museum practice. This is the first book-length study of installation art. Julie Reiss concentrates on some of the central figures in its emergence, including artists, critics, and curators. Her primary focus is installations created in New York City--which has a particularly rich history of installation art--beginning in the late 1950s. She takes us from Allan Kaprow's 1950s' environments to examples from minimalism, performance art, and process art to establish installation art¹s autonomy as its relationship to other movements.
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April 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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Despite his tragically short career, the influence of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is ever more pervasive. Central to the explosion of creativity in New York's SoHo in the 1970s, Matta-Clark turned his focus on the city itself, slicing through abandoned buildings to create works that were at once large-scale sculptural environments, social commentary and urban(...)
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January 1900, Tucson
Gordon Matta-Clark : the space between
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Despite his tragically short career, the influence of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) is ever more pervasive. Central to the explosion of creativity in New York's SoHo in the 1970s, Matta-Clark turned his focus on the city itself, slicing through abandoned buildings to create works that were at once large-scale sculptural environments, social commentary and urban performance pieces. His aim was to unravel the grammar of architecture and "turn a building into a state of mind". The 'building cuts' remain Matta-Clark’s best-known works, although today they exist only through film and photographic documentation. Armed with a movie camera, he explored the hidden spaces beneath Paris and London. He handed out free food and 'fresh air' on the streets, created architecture from refuse, and planned visionary architectural projects. His engagement with the urban landscape also led him to set up an artist-run restaurant, Food. This elegant produced book complements an exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and the Architectural Association, London.
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Dan Graham
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Dan Graham is among the most influential of the Conceptual artists who emerged in America during the mid 1960s. A pioneer in performance and video art in the 1970s, Graham later turned his attention to architectural projects designed for social interaction in public spaces, among them The Children’s Pavilion (1989) with Jeff Wall. Writing has always been a major aspect(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
May 2001, London
Dan Graham
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Dan Graham is among the most influential of the Conceptual artists who emerged in America during the mid 1960s. A pioneer in performance and video art in the 1970s, Graham later turned his attention to architectural projects designed for social interaction in public spaces, among them The Children’s Pavilion (1989) with Jeff Wall. Writing has always been a major aspect of Graham’s work. His texts range from early Conceptual art pieces inserted in mass-market magazines, to writing on his fellow artists, to analyses of popular culture, from Dean Martin to the post-Punk era. Well-known also among architects and urban theorists, during the 1990s Graham has been offered major public commissions throughout North America and Europe. London-based curator Mark Francis discusses with the artist how his public participation-based work has evolved. Brussels-based critic Birgit Pelzer draws on her extensive knowledge of Graham’s work and writings. New York-based architectural theorist Beatriz Colomina focuses on Graham’s Alteration to a Suburban House (1978). The artist has chosen an extract from the science fiction novel Ubik by Philip K Dick, whose writings were a formative influence. A substantial Artist’s Writings section, key to understanding Dan Graham, completes the book.
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May 2001, London
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Cet ouvrage constitue la synthèse la plus large à ce jour de la production internationale. Plus de cinq cents livres y sont analysés, émanant de quelque trois cents artistes, parmi lesquels, aux côtés d'Edward Ruscha, les pionniers Marcel Broodthaers, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Filliou, Lawrence Weiner, Christian Boltanski, Sol LeWitt, Dieter Roth. Chaque(...)
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December 1997, Paris
Esthétique du livre d'artiste
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Cet ouvrage constitue la synthèse la plus large à ce jour de la production internationale. Plus de cinq cents livres y sont analysés, émanant de quelque trois cents artistes, parmi lesquels, aux côtés d'Edward Ruscha, les pionniers Marcel Broodthaers, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Filliou, Lawrence Weiner, Christian Boltanski, Sol LeWitt, Dieter Roth. Chaque chapitre est consacré à une approche particulière du livre d'artiste. En ressort le statut paradoxal du livre, moyen d'expression le plus traditionnel au service des ruptures les plus radicales d'une génération décidée à inventer une autre idée de l'oeuvre d'art. Ainsi est-ce à une réflexion sur le livre comme forme artistique qu'invite cette Esthétique du livre d'artiste.
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December 1997, Paris
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Depuis les précurseurs de la modernité comme Tatline et Malévitch dans les années 1920-30 qui, en introduisant l'architecture dans les pratiques artistiques, ouvrirent la voie à d'autres procédures aujourd'hui reconnues, en passant par les approches nouvelles de l'espace dans les années 1960-70, jusqu'aux oeuvres contemporaines qui utilisent le son ou la(...)
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January 1999, Paris
50 espèces d'espaces : oeuvres du Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne
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Depuis les précurseurs de la modernité comme Tatline et Malévitch dans les années 1920-30 qui, en introduisant l'architecture dans les pratiques artistiques, ouvrirent la voie à d'autres procédures aujourd'hui reconnues, en passant par les approches nouvelles de l'espace dans les années 1960-70, jusqu'aux oeuvres contemporaines qui utilisent le son ou la vidéo, le travail in situ et l'installation sous toute ses formes, l'exposition "50 espèces d'espaces"met en espace des oeuvres qui jouent sur les catégories classiques de l'art.
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January 1999, Paris
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Mary Miss : making place
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The first comprehensive monograph on the work of the artist and sculptor Mary Miss, covering 30 years of creative production by example of 36 projects and built works.
Mary Miss : making place
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The first comprehensive monograph on the work of the artist and sculptor Mary Miss, covering 30 years of creative production by example of 36 projects and built works.
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November 1997, New York
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Dan Graham : architecture
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Through texts and a thirty-year survey of projects, this book presents a diverse body of work situated on the divide between art and architecture.
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April 1997, London
Dan Graham : architecture
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Through texts and a thirty-year survey of projects, this book presents a diverse body of work situated on the divide between art and architecture.
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April 1997, London
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Rodin intime
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À travers des photos inédites et de précieux documents d'archives, Rodin Intime vous plonge au cœur de la vie et de l'art d'Auguste Rodin et vous fait découvrir l'homme qui se cache derrière l'artiste.
Rodin intime
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À travers des photos inédites et de précieux documents d'archives, Rodin Intime vous plonge au cœur de la vie et de l'art d'Auguste Rodin et vous fait découvrir l'homme qui se cache derrière l'artiste.
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The exhibition Kurt Schwitters. Avant-Garde and Advertising seeks to highlight jointly what at first glance would appear to be two divergent aspects of the work of Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), one of the foremost figures of the European avant-garde in the last century.
Kurt Schwitters: avant-garde and advertising
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The exhibition Kurt Schwitters. Avant-Garde and Advertising seeks to highlight jointly what at first glance would appear to be two divergent aspects of the work of Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), one of the foremost figures of the European avant-garde in the last century.
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In 1973, American artist Barbara Kasten (born 1936) began experimenting with various photographic and printing techniques, resulting in a series of 24 diazotypes--a process used to produce architectural blueprints. For these staged mise-en-scène works, produced while Kasten lived in California, a female student was hired by the artist to pose in various photographs on a(...)
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November 2015
Barbara Kasten: The diazotypes
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In 1973, American artist Barbara Kasten (born 1936) began experimenting with various photographic and printing techniques, resulting in a series of 24 diazotypes--a process used to produce architectural blueprints. For these staged mise-en-scène works, produced while Kasten lived in California, a female student was hired by the artist to pose in various photographs on a chair outdoors. In them, a kind of performance unfolds, in which the body becomes entangled in forms and shapes, the overlaid printed grid on the photographs emphasizing the human figure against a determined space. These images--with their clear Bauhaus influence, insistence on the two-dimensional plane and determined staging--initially appear to be totally unlike the abstract conceptual photography for which Kasten has become known, but are nonetheless a visible precursor to her later work.
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