American Artists Engage The Built Environment 1960 1979

Author : Susanneh Bieber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000894806

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American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979 by Susanneh Bieber Pdf

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists, Donald Judd, Robert Grosvenor, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Mary Miss, who were closely associated with the formal-aesthetic innovations of the period. While these individual artists came to represent diverse movements, Bieber argues that all of them were attracted to the field of architecture—the work of architects, engineers, preservationists, landscape designers, and urban planners—because they believed these practices more directly shaped the social and material spaces of everyday life. This book’s contribution to the field of art history is thus twofold. First, it shows that the avant-garde of the long 1960s did not simply develop according to an internal logic of art but also as part of broader sociocultural discourses about buildings and cities. Second, it exemplifies a methodological synthesis between social art history and poststructural formalism that is foundational to understanding the role of art in the construction of a more just and egalitarian society. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architecture, urbanism, and environmental humanism.

Author : Susanneh Bieber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 100329510X

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American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-79 by Susanneh Bieber Pdf

"This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists, namely Donald Judd, Robert Grosvenor, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Mary Miss, who were closely associated with the formal-aesthetic innovations of the period. While these individual artists came to represent diverse movements, Bieber argues that all of them were attracted to the field of architecture-the work of architects, engineers, preservationists, landscape designers, and urban planners-because they believed these practices more directly shaped the social and material spaces of everyday life. This book's contribution to the field of art history is thus twofold. First, it shows that the avant-garde of the long 1960s did not simply develop according to an internal logic of art, but also as part of broader sociocultural discourses about buildings and cities. Second, it exemplifies a methodological synthesis between social art history and poststructural formalism that is foundational to understanding and taking seriously the role of art in the construction of a more just and egalitarian society. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architecture, urbanism, and environmental humanism"--

Author : Irina D. Costache,Clare Kunny
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000898033

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Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art by Irina D. Costache,Clare Kunny Pdf

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of “isms.” This volume tells a worldwide story of art with expanded historical narratives of modernism. The chapters reflect on a wide range of issues, topics, and themes that have been marginalized or outright excluded from the canon of modern art. The goal of this book is to be a starting point for understanding modern art as a broad and inclusive field of study. The topics examine diverse formal expressions, innovative conceptual approaches, and various media used by artists around the world and forcefully acknowledge the connections between art, historical circumstances, political environments, and social issues such as gender, race, and social justice. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, imperial and colonial history, modernism, and globalization.

Author : Donald Stoltenberg
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art
ISBN : 0871921189

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The Artist and the Built Environment by Donald Stoltenberg Pdf

This book is concerned with the built environment -- the buildings, transportation, and engineering works around us. Conversion of old structures to contemporary uses, preservation, and ind'l. archaeology indicate an awareness of the urban landscape and the effect it has upon us. The artist's function is to examine, digest, and interpret our surroundings. This book includes artists who have responded to this theme, such as Canaletto, Sheeler, Demuth, Burchfield, Turner and Soutine. Examples have been chosen to show how artists of different periods, temperaments, and backgrounds have approached similar subjects or even the same motif. Profusely illustrated.

Author : Nato Thompson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262017343

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Living as Form by Nato Thompson Pdf

'Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.

Author : Riva Castleman
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0810961814

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A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman Pdf

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Author : Miwon Kwon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026261202X

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One Place after Another by Miwon Kwon Pdf

A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s. Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.

Author : Eric Margolis,Luc Pauwels
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473971233

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The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods by Eric Margolis,Luc Pauwels Pdf

This book captures the state of the art in visual research. Margolis and Pauwels have brought together, in one volume, a unique survey of the field of visual research that will be essential reading for scholars and students across the social sciences, arts and humanities. The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods encompasses the breadth and depth of the field, and points the way to future research possibilities. It illustrates ′cutting edge′ as well as long-standing and recognized practices. This book is not only ′about′ research, it is also an example of the way that the visual can be incorporated into data collection and the presentation of research findings. Chapters describe a methodology or analytical framework, its strengths and limitations, possible fields of application and practical guidelines on how to apply the method or technique. The Handbook is organized into seven main sections: - Framing the Field of Visual Research - Producing Visual Data and Insight - Participatory and Subject-Centered Approaches - Analytical Frameworks and Approaches - Visualization Technologies and Practices - Moving Beyond the Visual - Options and Issues for Using and Presenting Visual Research. Eric Margolis is an Associate Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. He is President of the International Visual Sociology Association. Luc Pauwels is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of Antwerp. He is Chair of the Visual Communication Studies Division of the ICA and Vice-President of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA).

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : Helen Anne Molesworth,M. Darsie Alexander,Julia Bryan-Wilson,Baltimore Museum of Art,Des Moines Art Center,Wexner Center for the Arts
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271023341

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Work Ethic by Helen Anne Molesworth,M. Darsie Alexander,Julia Bryan-Wilson,Baltimore Museum of Art,Des Moines Art Center,Wexner Center for the Arts Pdf

Examines the proliferation of new ways of making "art" in the 1960s by focusing on the changed organization of work in society at the time. Co-published with The Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name.

Author : Graham Thompson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748628957

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American Culture in the 1980s by Graham Thompson Pdf

This book looks beyond the common label of 'Ronald Reagan's America' to chart the complex intersection of cultures in the 1980s. In doing so it provides an insightful account of the major cultural forms of 1980s America - literature and drama; film and television; music and performance; art and photography - and influential texts and trends of the decade: from White Noise to Wall Street, from Silicon Valley to MTV, and from Madonna to Cindy Sherman. A focused chapter considers the changing dynamics of American culture in an increasingly globalised marketplace.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123429990

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jo Lauria,Steve Fenton
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Decorative arts
ISBN : 9780307346476

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Craft in America by Jo Lauria,Steve Fenton Pdf

Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252054792

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The Propaganda of Freedom by Joseph Horowitz Pdf

The perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical evidence--to say nothing of achievements within the Soviet Union--failed to impact impregnable cultural Cold War doctrine. Joseph Horowitz writes: “That so many fine minds could have cheapened freedom by over-praising it, turning it into a reductionist propaganda mantra, is one measure of the intellectual cost of the Cold War.” He shows how the efforts of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom were distorted by an anti-totalitarian “psychology of exile” traceable to its secretary general, the displaced Russian aristocrat/composer Nicolas Nabokov, and to Nabokov’s hero Igor Stravinsky. In counterpoint, Horowitz investigates personal, social, and political factors that actually shape the creative act. He here focuses on Stravinsky, who in Los Angeles experienced a “freedom not to matter,” and Dmitri Shostakovich, who was both victim and beneficiary of Soviet cultural policies. He also takes a fresh look at cultural exchange and explores paradoxical similarities and differences framing the popularization of classical music in the Soviet Union and the United States. In closing, he assesses the Kennedy administration’s arts advocacy initiatives and their pertinence to today’s fraught American national identity. Challenging long-entrenched myths, The Propaganda of Freedom newly explores the tangled relationship between the ideology of freedom and ideals of cultural achievement.

Author : Pamela M. Lee
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621568

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Object to Be Destroyed by Pamela M. Lee Pdf

In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Pamela M. Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s—particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices—and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs. Although highly regarded during his short life—and honored by artists and architects today—the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) has been largely ignored within the history of art. Matta-Clark is best remembered for site-specific projects known as "building cuts." Sculptural transformations of architecture produced through direct cuts into buildings scheduled for demolition, these works now exist only as sculptural fragments, photographs, and film and video documentations. Matta-Clark is also remembered as a catalytic force in the creation of SoHo in the early 1970s. Through loft activities, site projects at the exhibition space 112 Greene Street, and his work at the restaurant Food, he participated in the production of a new social and artistic space. Have art historians written so little about Matta-Clark's work because of its ephemerality, or, as Pamela M. Lee argues, because of its historiographic, political, and social dimensions? What did the activity of carving up a building-in anticipation of its destruction—suggest about the conditions of art making, architecture, and urbanism in the 1970s? What was one to make of the paradox attendant on its making—that the production of the object was contingent upon its ruination? How do these projects address the very writing of history, a history that imagines itself building toward an ideal work in the service of progress? In this first critical account of Matta-Clark's work, Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s—particularly site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices—and its confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have defined modern building programs.