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On the metaphor of growth
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This catalogue of a travelling exhibition (Hannover, Basel, Frankfurt am Main) demonstrates that artists are able, past all doctrines of growth, to bring forth an artistic treatment of the concept of growth. They indicate lines of connection and dependencies which seem strange to us. Among these are the splendid Venetian Murano glass with which Tue Greenfort illustrates(...)
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This catalogue of a travelling exhibition (Hannover, Basel, Frankfurt am Main) demonstrates that artists are able, past all doctrines of growth, to bring forth an artistic treatment of the concept of growth. They indicate lines of connection and dependencies which seem strange to us. Among these are the splendid Venetian Murano glass with which Tue Greenfort illustrates(...)
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August 2011
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On the metaphor of growth
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This catalogue of a travelling exhibition (Hannover, Basel, Frankfurt am Main) demonstrates that artists are able, past all doctrines of growth, to bring forth an artistic treatment of the concept of growth. They indicate lines of connection and dependencies which seem strange to us. Among these are the splendid Venetian Murano glass with which Tue Greenfort illustrates the growth of algae in the Adriatic, the ludicrous flooding of a McDonald’s restaurant, by means of which the Danish artist’s group Superflex alludes to the threatening growth in sea levels. Also works by Dirk Fleischmann, Sylvie Fleury, Mika Rottenberg, Julika Rudelius, Lois Weinberger, Franck Scurti, Dan Peterman and many others.
On the metaphor of growth
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This catalogue of a travelling exhibition (Hannover, Basel, Frankfurt am Main) demonstrates that artists are able, past all doctrines of growth, to bring forth an artistic treatment of the concept of growth. They indicate lines of connection and dependencies which seem strange to us. Among these are the splendid Venetian Murano glass with which Tue Greenfort illustrates the growth of algae in the Adriatic, the ludicrous flooding of a McDonald’s restaurant, by means of which the Danish artist’s group Superflex alludes to the threatening growth in sea levels. Also works by Dirk Fleischmann, Sylvie Fleury, Mika Rottenberg, Julika Rudelius, Lois Weinberger, Franck Scurti, Dan Peterman and many others.
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S’IMBRIQUER entend faire le point sur une pratique croissante de la sculpture contemporaine en terre à travers l’usage de la brique. Symboliquement, la brique est un élément de construction; elle incarne aussi le socle d’une connaissance commune à tous. Partir de ce module architectural basique pour entrer dans des questionnements plastiques très actuels participe à une(...)
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S’IMBRIQUER entend faire le point sur une pratique croissante de la sculpture contemporaine en terre à travers l’usage de la brique. Symboliquement, la brique est un élément de construction; elle incarne aussi le socle d’une connaissance commune à tous. Partir de ce module architectural basique pour entrer dans des questionnements plastiques très actuels participe à une(...)
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September 2011
September 2011
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S'imbriquer : autour de la brique
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S’IMBRIQUER entend faire le point sur une pratique croissante de la sculpture contemporaine en terre à travers l’usage de la brique. Symboliquement, la brique est un élément de construction; elle incarne aussi le socle d’une connaissance commune à tous. Partir de ce module architectural basique pour entrer dans des questionnements plastiques très actuels participe à une démarche pédagogique propre à l’Ecole d’Art du Beauvaisis. Cette exposition, et la publication qui l’accompagne, nous mènent ainsi sur les pistes les plus contrastées de la sculpture contemporaine : pesanteur-apesanteur, construction- déconstruction, monumentalité-miniaturisation, terre crue-terre cuite, appareillage, emboîtement, mémoire... Ce catalogue réunit 20 artistes, certains de renommée internationale, d’autres plus jeunes.
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S’IMBRIQUER entend faire le point sur une pratique croissante de la sculpture contemporaine en terre à travers l’usage de la brique. Symboliquement, la brique est un élément de construction; elle incarne aussi le socle d’une connaissance commune à tous. Partir de ce module architectural basique pour entrer dans des questionnements plastiques très actuels participe à une démarche pédagogique propre à l’Ecole d’Art du Beauvaisis. Cette exposition, et la publication qui l’accompagne, nous mènent ainsi sur les pistes les plus contrastées de la sculpture contemporaine : pesanteur-apesanteur, construction- déconstruction, monumentalité-miniaturisation, terre crue-terre cuite, appareillage, emboîtement, mémoire... Ce catalogue réunit 20 artistes, certains de renommée internationale, d’autres plus jeunes.
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The first book to look extensively at conceptualism in Canada, published to accompany a touring exhibition. The most transformative art movement of the late 20th century, conceptual art became a global phenomenon long before it was popularized by a new generation of artists and institutions in the early 21st century. Its various manifestations in Canada, however, have(...)
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The first book to look extensively at conceptualism in Canada, published to accompany a touring exhibition. The most transformative art movement of the late 20th century, conceptual art became a global phenomenon long before it was popularized by a new generation of artists and institutions in the early 21st century. Its various manifestations in Canada, however, have(...)
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January 2012
January 2012
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Traffic : conceptual art in Canada, 1965-1980
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The first book to look extensively at conceptualism in Canada, published to accompany a touring exhibition. The most transformative art movement of the late 20th century, conceptual art became a global phenomenon long before it was popularized by a new generation of artists and institutions in the early 21st century. Its various manifestations in Canada, however, have remained a limited concern, a whispered art history circulated among artists and writers primarily in alternative publications and artist-run centres. Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the first publication and exhibition to track the complex, rigorous and diverse manifestations of conceptual art in the country. Presenting work by more than 90 artists, Traffic examines the particular local and geographic needs and interests enacted by individual artists, collectives and art communities from across the country. The book includes essays by six curators, a conversation with an international group of scholars, an annotated chronology and many reproductions of conceptual artworks produced in Canada. Co-published by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (Concordia University) and Halifax, INK
Traffic : conceptual art in Canada, 1965-1980
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The first book to look extensively at conceptualism in Canada, published to accompany a touring exhibition. The most transformative art movement of the late 20th century, conceptual art became a global phenomenon long before it was popularized by a new generation of artists and institutions in the early 21st century. Its various manifestations in Canada, however, have remained a limited concern, a whispered art history circulated among artists and writers primarily in alternative publications and artist-run centres. Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 is the first publication and exhibition to track the complex, rigorous and diverse manifestations of conceptual art in the country. Presenting work by more than 90 artists, Traffic examines the particular local and geographic needs and interests enacted by individual artists, collectives and art communities from across the country. The book includes essays by six curators, a conversation with an international group of scholars, an annotated chronology and many reproductions of conceptual artworks produced in Canada. Co-published by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto), Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (Concordia University) and Halifax, INK
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Construit en 5 parties, le livre s'ouvre sur la genèse du projet, intimement lié à l'enfance de l'artiste, et développé au gré d'un entretien entre Linda Ellia et Thierry Illouz, auteur du texte. L'ouvrage s'interroge ensuite sur ces "trésors cachés" que sont les dessins d'enfants jetés et perdus, pour mettre en lumière toute la créativité inhérente à ces oeuvres(...)
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Construit en 5 parties, le livre s'ouvre sur la genèse du projet, intimement lié à l'enfance de l'artiste, et développé au gré d'un entretien entre Linda Ellia et Thierry Illouz, auteur du texte. L'ouvrage s'interroge ensuite sur ces "trésors cachés" que sont les dessins d'enfants jetés et perdus, pour mettre en lumière toute la créativité inhérente à ces oeuvres(...)
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November 2011
November 2011
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Hors classe : quand l'école passe à côté...
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Construit en 5 parties, le livre s'ouvre sur la genèse du projet, intimement lié à l'enfance de l'artiste, et développé au gré d'un entretien entre Linda Ellia et Thierry Illouz, auteur du texte. L'ouvrage s'interroge ensuite sur ces "trésors cachés" que sont les dessins d'enfants jetés et perdus, pour mettre en lumière toute la créativité inhérente à ces oeuvres naissantes, et toucher, par un détour dans l'atelier de l'artiste, à cet "hors classe" ici magnifié. Enfin, il s'achève par un dialogue où se répondent, dans un rapprochement inattendu mais saisissant, les oeuvres de Linda Ellia et celles de ces artistes en herbe, "revanche" contre une certaine école, dans ce qu'elle peut parfois avoir d'écrasant et d'autoritaire. Préface de Michel Onfray
Hors classe : quand l'école passe à côté...
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Construit en 5 parties, le livre s'ouvre sur la genèse du projet, intimement lié à l'enfance de l'artiste, et développé au gré d'un entretien entre Linda Ellia et Thierry Illouz, auteur du texte. L'ouvrage s'interroge ensuite sur ces "trésors cachés" que sont les dessins d'enfants jetés et perdus, pour mettre en lumière toute la créativité inhérente à ces oeuvres naissantes, et toucher, par un détour dans l'atelier de l'artiste, à cet "hors classe" ici magnifié. Enfin, il s'achève par un dialogue où se répondent, dans un rapprochement inattendu mais saisissant, les oeuvres de Linda Ellia et celles de ces artistes en herbe, "revanche" contre une certaine école, dans ce qu'elle peut parfois avoir d'écrasant et d'autoritaire. Préface de Michel Onfray
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Apparus en Europe pendant la Renaissance, les cabinets de curiosités abritaient d'immenses collections, souvent princières, marquées par la volonté de recréer la totalité du monde en un lieu, la recherche d'exotisme, de raretés, voire de chimères. Ces accumulations d'objets oscillaient alors entre l'affirmation de la toute puissance de l'homme et de sa vanité. Classées,(...)
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Apparus en Europe pendant la Renaissance, les cabinets de curiosités abritaient d'immenses collections, souvent princières, marquées par la volonté de recréer la totalité du monde en un lieu, la recherche d'exotisme, de raretés, voire de chimères. Ces accumulations d'objets oscillaient alors entre l'affirmation de la toute puissance de l'homme et de sa vanité. Classées,(...)
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Cabinets de curiosités: la passion de la collection
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Apparus en Europe pendant la Renaissance, les cabinets de curiosités abritaient d'immenses collections, souvent princières, marquées par la volonté de recréer la totalité du monde en un lieu, la recherche d'exotisme, de raretés, voire de chimères. Ces accumulations d'objets oscillaient alors entre l'affirmation de la toute puissance de l'homme et de sa vanité. Classées, ordonnées, organisées, les collections de ces "chambres des merveilles" ont finalement été regroupées par discipline pour donner, au siècle des Lumières, naissance aux musées. Aujourd'hui, les cabinets de curiosités restent une source d'inspiration importante, tant pour l'art contemporain qu'en décoration : mélange des catégories, métissage des arts, goût pour la collection et sa mise en scène, esthétique du désordre... Autant de citations contemporaines de cette "chambre des merveilles", qui s'avère un magnifique support à la rêverie et à la création.
Cabinets de curiosités: la passion de la collection
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Apparus en Europe pendant la Renaissance, les cabinets de curiosités abritaient d'immenses collections, souvent princières, marquées par la volonté de recréer la totalité du monde en un lieu, la recherche d'exotisme, de raretés, voire de chimères. Ces accumulations d'objets oscillaient alors entre l'affirmation de la toute puissance de l'homme et de sa vanité. Classées, ordonnées, organisées, les collections de ces "chambres des merveilles" ont finalement été regroupées par discipline pour donner, au siècle des Lumières, naissance aux musées. Aujourd'hui, les cabinets de curiosités restent une source d'inspiration importante, tant pour l'art contemporain qu'en décoration : mélange des catégories, métissage des arts, goût pour la collection et sa mise en scène, esthétique du désordre... Autant de citations contemporaines de cette "chambre des merveilles", qui s'avère un magnifique support à la rêverie et à la création.
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Art Space Tokyo acts as your 272 page personal guide and interpreter, connecting you with the neighborhoods and figures behind some of the most inspiring art spaces in this colossal city. Each of the featured spaces has been rendered as a striking illustration by Nobumasa Takahashi. The book covers art spaces in neighborhoods such as Ginza, Yanaka, Gaienmae,(...)
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Art Space Tokyo acts as your 272 page personal guide and interpreter, connecting you with the neighborhoods and figures behind some of the most inspiring art spaces in this colossal city. Each of the featured spaces has been rendered as a striking illustration by Nobumasa Takahashi. The book covers art spaces in neighborhoods such as Ginza, Yanaka, Gaienmae,(...)
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Art Space Tokyo: an intimate guide to twelve of Tokyo's most exciting art spaces
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Art Space Tokyo acts as your 272 page personal guide and interpreter, connecting you with the neighborhoods and figures behind some of the most inspiring art spaces in this colossal city. Each of the featured spaces has been rendered as a striking illustration by Nobumasa Takahashi. The book covers art spaces in neighborhoods such as Ginza, Yanaka, Gaienmae, Omotesando, Harajuku, Roppongi, Asakusa and more. The neighborhood surrounding each art space has been meticulously mapped with recommendations for the best food, coffee and sights to enjoy in an afternoon of art viewing. Whether you live in Japan or not, if you want insight into the Tokyo art world, this is the book for you.
Art Space Tokyo: an intimate guide to twelve of Tokyo's most exciting art spaces
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Art Space Tokyo acts as your 272 page personal guide and interpreter, connecting you with the neighborhoods and figures behind some of the most inspiring art spaces in this colossal city. Each of the featured spaces has been rendered as a striking illustration by Nobumasa Takahashi. The book covers art spaces in neighborhoods such as Ginza, Yanaka, Gaienmae, Omotesando, Harajuku, Roppongi, Asakusa and more. The neighborhood surrounding each art space has been meticulously mapped with recommendations for the best food, coffee and sights to enjoy in an afternoon of art viewing. Whether you live in Japan or not, if you want insight into the Tokyo art world, this is the book for you.
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Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art-historically aware. This book chronicles canonical as well as nearly forgotten works of the 1980s, arguing that what has often been dismissed as cynical or ironic should be viewed as a struggle on the part of artists to articulate their needs and desires in an(...)
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Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art-historically aware. This book chronicles canonical as well as nearly forgotten works of the 1980s, arguing that what has often been dismissed as cynical or ironic should be viewed as a struggle on the part of artists to articulate their needs and desires in an(...)
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March 2012
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This will have been: art, love & politics in the 1980's
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Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art-historically aware. This book chronicles canonical as well as nearly forgotten works of the 1980s, arguing that what has often been dismissed as cynical or ironic should be viewed as a struggle on the part of artists to articulate their needs and desires in an increasingly commodified world. The major developments of the decade - the rise of the commercial art market, the politicization of the AIDS crisis, the increased visibility of women and gay artists and artists of colour, and the ascension of new media - are illuminated in works by Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, and Lorna Simpson, among others.
This will have been: art, love & politics in the 1980's
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Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art-historically aware. This book chronicles canonical as well as nearly forgotten works of the 1980s, arguing that what has often been dismissed as cynical or ironic should be viewed as a struggle on the part of artists to articulate their needs and desires in an increasingly commodified world. The major developments of the decade - the rise of the commercial art market, the politicization of the AIDS crisis, the increased visibility of women and gay artists and artists of colour, and the ascension of new media - are illuminated in works by Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, and Lorna Simpson, among others.
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This thought-provoking volume offers a critical reevaluation of the term foreclosure: it can refer not only to a forced eviction but also to processes of exclusion - a shutting down of recognition, reflection, and debate. Through work in photography, film, video, installation, and performance, the seven artists represented in this volume (Kamal Aljafari, Yto Barrada,(...)
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This thought-provoking volume offers a critical reevaluation of the term foreclosure: it can refer not only to a forced eviction but also to processes of exclusion - a shutting down of recognition, reflection, and debate. Through work in photography, film, video, installation, and performance, the seven artists represented in this volume (Kamal Aljafari, Yto Barrada,(...)
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February 2012
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Foreclosed : between crisis and possibility
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This thought-provoking volume offers a critical reevaluation of the term foreclosure: it can refer not only to a forced eviction but also to processes of exclusion - a shutting down of recognition, reflection, and debate. Through work in photography, film, video, installation, and performance, the seven artists represented in this volume (Kamal Aljafari, Yto Barrada, Tania Bruguera, Claude Closky, Harun Farocki, Allan Sekula, and David Shrigley) investigate the expanded meaning of foreclosure by reexamining the systems that have produced crises, instead of focusing on the aftermath. Four essays from a team of international curators discuss foreclosure as both a generative concept and a curatorial strategy, allowing the text itself to become a platform for critique.
Foreclosed : between crisis and possibility
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This thought-provoking volume offers a critical reevaluation of the term foreclosure: it can refer not only to a forced eviction but also to processes of exclusion - a shutting down of recognition, reflection, and debate. Through work in photography, film, video, installation, and performance, the seven artists represented in this volume (Kamal Aljafari, Yto Barrada, Tania Bruguera, Claude Closky, Harun Farocki, Allan Sekula, and David Shrigley) investigate the expanded meaning of foreclosure by reexamining the systems that have produced crises, instead of focusing on the aftermath. Four essays from a team of international curators discuss foreclosure as both a generative concept and a curatorial strategy, allowing the text itself to become a platform for critique.
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How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education - and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself - in the 1960s and 1970s ? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia(...)
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How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education - and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself - in the 1960s and 1970s ? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia(...)
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The last art college: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978
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How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education - and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself - in the 1960s and 1970s ? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (aka NSCAD) in the 1970s redefined the means and methods of art education and the shape of art far beyond Halifax. A partial list of visiting artists and faculty members at NSCAD would include: Joseph Beuys, Sol LeWitt, Gerhard Richter, Dan Graham, Lucy Lippard, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer and Eric Fischl. Kasper Koenig and Benjamin Buchloh ran the NSCAD Press, publishing books by Hollis Frampton, Lawrence Weiner, Donald Judd, Daniel Buren, Michael Asher, Martha Rosler, and Michael Snow, among others. The Lithography Workshop produced early works by many of today's masters, including John Baldessari, Vito Acconci, and Claes Oldenburg.
The last art college: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978
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How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education - and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself - in the 1960s and 1970s ? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (aka NSCAD) in the 1970s redefined the means and methods of art education and the shape of art far beyond Halifax. A partial list of visiting artists and faculty members at NSCAD would include: Joseph Beuys, Sol LeWitt, Gerhard Richter, Dan Graham, Lucy Lippard, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer and Eric Fischl. Kasper Koenig and Benjamin Buchloh ran the NSCAD Press, publishing books by Hollis Frampton, Lawrence Weiner, Donald Judd, Daniel Buren, Michael Asher, Martha Rosler, and Michael Snow, among others. The Lithography Workshop produced early works by many of today's masters, including John Baldessari, Vito Acconci, and Claes Oldenburg.
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The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. This unique piece has been conceived and put together by the Swiss-born artist Herbert Distel in 1970-77. It consists of an old cabinet made to hold reels of sewing silk whose twenty drawers each contain twenty-five compartments. Each of the 500 compartments houses an original miniature work of(...)
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The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. This unique piece has been conceived and put together by the Swiss-born artist Herbert Distel in 1970-77. It consists of an old cabinet made to hold reels of sewing silk whose twenty drawers each contain twenty-five compartments. Each of the 500 compartments houses an original miniature work of(...)
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The museum of drawers 1970-1977
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The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. This unique piece has been conceived and put together by the Swiss-born artist Herbert Distel in 1970-77. It consists of an old cabinet made to hold reels of sewing silk whose twenty drawers each contain twenty-five compartments. Each of the 500 compartments houses an original miniature work of art, many of which were made especially for the Museum of Drawers. The list of artists represented includes such influential pioneers as Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Following a first presentation as a work-in-progress at the documenta 5 in Kassel (Germany) in 1972, the Museum of Drawers caused sensation internationally. It has been shown several times in New York, including a presentation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1999, and at many museums around the world. After its restoration it is now part of the permanent collection of the Kunsthaus, Zurich. This new book is a comprehensive documentation of this extraordinary object. It shows all twenty drawers with their content as well as each of the 500 miniature art works individually and in true size. Essays on the history and importance of the entire work and concept complement the images.
The museum of drawers 1970-1977
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The Museum of Drawers is the world's smallest museum of twentieth-century art. This unique piece has been conceived and put together by the Swiss-born artist Herbert Distel in 1970-77. It consists of an old cabinet made to hold reels of sewing silk whose twenty drawers each contain twenty-five compartments. Each of the 500 compartments houses an original miniature work of art, many of which were made especially for the Museum of Drawers. The list of artists represented includes such influential pioneers as Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoch, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Following a first presentation as a work-in-progress at the documenta 5 in Kassel (Germany) in 1972, the Museum of Drawers caused sensation internationally. It has been shown several times in New York, including a presentation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1999, and at many museums around the world. After its restoration it is now part of the permanent collection of the Kunsthaus, Zurich. This new book is a comprehensive documentation of this extraordinary object. It shows all twenty drawers with their content as well as each of the 500 miniature art works individually and in true size. Essays on the history and importance of the entire work and concept complement the images.
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