Walter De Maria: Meaningless Work
Autor Jane McFaddenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 dec 2016
As one of the most innovative artists of the last six decades, Walter De Maria challenged art in profound ways. He is known worldwide for his important sculptures such as Lightning Field, but his contributions to the practices of music, drawing, photography, and film have been largely forgotten. Featuring in-depth analysis of many previously unknown works and correspondence, this book offers the first major critical account of de Maria’s broader range of interests.
In a 1960 score, Walter De Maria called for “meaningless work:” art that does not “accomplish a conventional purpose.” He followed this call with a dizzying period of experimentation. The resulting work reflected shifts in how we understand the sites of art during an era of moon shots and road trips, of wars that moved from jungles into living rooms via electromagnetic waves. It helped us understand ourselves and how race, gender, and sexuality vie for space in the social realm. By bringing to light de Maria’s lesser-known works, this book challenges established histories and methodologies for the art of the 1960s and ’70s, while also exploring de Maria’s own obsessions with art’s uttermost possibilities.
In a 1960 score, Walter De Maria called for “meaningless work:” art that does not “accomplish a conventional purpose.” He followed this call with a dizzying period of experimentation. The resulting work reflected shifts in how we understand the sites of art during an era of moon shots and road trips, of wars that moved from jungles into living rooms via electromagnetic waves. It helped us understand ourselves and how race, gender, and sexuality vie for space in the social realm. By bringing to light de Maria’s lesser-known works, this book challenges established histories and methodologies for the art of the 1960s and ’70s, while also exploring de Maria’s own obsessions with art’s uttermost possibilities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781780236674
ISBN-10: 1780236670
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 30 color plates, 48 halftones
Dimensiuni: 191 x 248 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
ISBN-10: 1780236670
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 30 color plates, 48 halftones
Dimensiuni: 191 x 248 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Notă biografică
Jane McFadden is associate professor and chair of the Department of Humanities and Sciences at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Cuprins
One: Infamous Photographs
Two: Towards Site
Three: Sculpture as Stranger
Four: Sites Unseen
Five: There not Here
Six: History Sculpture
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Two: Towards Site
Three: Sculpture as Stranger
Four: Sites Unseen
Five: There not Here
Six: History Sculpture
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Recenzii
"A compelling new study."
“McFadden’s book is a brilliant reassessment of the art and career one of the most independent-minded American artists of the post-war generation. Although De Maria’s Lightning Field has dominated accounts of his art, McFadden shows that this seminal piece was only one of a number of ways in which the artist deftly played in the spaces between immediacy and mediation, between the ping of firsthand experience and the iterative strategies of intermedia.”