Mark Dion

Author : Ruth Erickson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300224078

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Mark Dion by Ruth Erickson Pdf

A comprehensive survey of American artist Mark Dion, examining three decades of his critically engaged practice interrogating our relationship with nature The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists expanding institutional critique in the 1990s, Dion adopted the methods of the archaeologist or the natural history museum, juxtaposing natural objects, taxidermy, books, and more to reorganize the natural and the manmade in poetic, witty ways. These sculptures, installations, and interventions offer novel approaches to questioning institutional power, which he sees as connected to the control and representation of nature. Generously illustrated, this publication introduces new insights and features more than seventy-five artworks. Essays address topics ranging from Dion's ecological activism to his loving critique of museums. A diverse group of contributors explores his work as a teacher, his public artworks such as Neukom Vivarium in Seattle, and his intricate curiosity cabinets installed throughout the world. They reveal how Dion's practice and formal investigations--which are rooted in history--connect to contemporary questions of disciplinary boundaries and the acquisition of knowledge in the age of the Anthropocene.

Author : Mark Dion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110945156

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Natural History and Other Fictions by Mark Dion Pdf

Author : Mark Dion
Publisher : Whitechapel Gallery
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : ART
ISBN : 0854882634

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Theatre of the Natural World by Mark Dion Pdf

Accompanying his first major UK exhibition in a decade, this unique publication focuses on five works by the American conceptual artist Mark Dion. Since the late 1980s Dion (b. 1961, Massachusetts) has been delving into the tropes and research methods of scientists, explorers, museum curators and archaeologists. He has created a body of work that playfully presents art as scientific enquiry or field work, questioning how knowledge is gathered, classified and displayed. Five installations will be displayed at Whitechapel Gallery: a scholar's study invites us to unravel intricate drawings and models; the Bureau for the Centre of the Study for Surrealism and its Legacy displays the strange magic of obsolete things; the muddy banks of the Thames have also yielded their treasures for poetic display in a gigantic cabinet; while a Dickensian Curiosity Shop tempts us with the bizarre aura of American bric-a-brac. Each immersive environment is also a habitat, evoking the characters that observe, conserve or exploit the natural world. The catalogue features new short essays on each of the exhibited works, an interview between the artist and Iwona Blazwick and a reprint of a short story by National Book Award for Fiction winner Andrea Barrett.

Author : Mark Dion,Margaret C. Adler
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300246193

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The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion by Mark Dion,Margaret C. Adler Pdf

In this dazzling expeditionary volume, Mark Dion investigates the layered history of the Lone Star State.

Author : Mark Dion,Alexis Rockman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015040047717

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Concrete Jungle by Mark Dion,Alexis Rockman Pdf

A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems. An exploration into the results of what happens when urban and human environments intersect with each other.

Author : Mark Dion,Richard Klein,Bree Edwards,Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Conn.)
Publisher : Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056878401

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Mark Dion by Mark Dion,Richard Klein,Bree Edwards,Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Conn.) Pdf

Artwork by Mark Dion. Contributions by Brie Edwards. Text by Richard Klein.

Author : Oakland Museum of California
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811874516

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The Marvelous Museum: Orphans, Curiosities & Treasures by Oakland Museum of California Pdf

What is the role of the museum in contemporary society? Using the Oakland Museum of California as a case study, artist Mark Dion examines how museum practices have shifted over time, what these changes mean for objects in museum collections, and what we can learn about our culture from what's included and what's abandoned. Enclosed in a clamshell case and featuring fourteen specimen cards, this deluxe volume brings the reader into Dion's process and reveals how the order of images can change one's perception of objects. Contributions from celebrated writers, including Lawrence Weschler and D. Graham Burnett, articulate Dion's unique power of examination.

Author : Mark Dion,Alex Coles
Publisher : Black Dog Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015049720330

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Mark Dion by Mark Dion,Alex Coles Pdf

This volume presents Mark Dion's most recent work, which largely comprises the digs he has been concerned with in Italy, Switzerland, and London (including the Tate Thames Dig Beachcombing on London's Foreshore). The book provides a preface to each of these projects by the artist, and showcases much of his previously unpublished work. In addition, a text by Alex Coles frames Dion's current projects. Further texts from the diverse lecture programme currently taking place at the Tate Gallery in conjunction with Tate Thames Dig elucidate the artist's work.

Author : Alexander Wilson
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 9780921284529

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The Culture of Nature by Alexander Wilson Pdf

In this celebrated work, Alexander Wilson examines environments built over the past fifty years, as humans have continued to discover, exploit, protect, restore, and sometimes re-enchant a natural world in convulsion. Extensively illustrated.

Author : Miwon Kwon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271054018

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Gorgeous Beasts by Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist Pdf

"A collection of essays examining the place of animals in history and culture and their influence on life and art, from the Renaissance to the present"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004375253

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Why Look at Plants? by Anonim Pdf

Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work.

Author : Stephen Wilson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262731584

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Information Arts by Stephen Wilson Pdf

An introduction to the work and ideas of artists who use—and even influence—science and technology. A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology—not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the direction of research. Years ago, C. P. Snow wrote about the "two cultures" of science and the humanities; these developments may finally help to change the outlook of those who view science and technology as separate from the general culture. In this rich compendium, Wilson offers the first comprehensive survey of international artists who incorporate concepts and research from mathematics, the physical sciences, biology, kinetics, telecommunications, and experimental digital systems such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing. In addition to visual documentation and statements by the artists, Wilson examines relevant art-theoretical writings and explores emerging scientific and technological research likely to be culturally significant in the future. He also provides lists of resources including organizations, publications, conferences, museums, research centers, and Web sites.

Author : Kynaston McShine
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0810961970

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The Museum as Muse by Kynaston McShine Pdf

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 14 - June 1, 1999.

Author : Mark Dion,Julie Courtney
Publisher : John Bartram Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0615257488

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Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered by Mark Dion,Julie Courtney Pdf

Combining humor and seriousness, this picture-filled book beautifully documents an artistic collaboration across more than two centuries. The 18th-century naturalist/artist William Bartram is renowned for hisTravels, a volume recounting his 1770s trip through the American Southeast and for his revelatory drawings. Mark Dion is a contemporary artist famous for working with historical and museum collections, and for site-specific displays that mimic the historical exhibits surrounding them. Commissioned for the landmark John Bartram house at Philadelphia's Bartram's Garden, the "Travels Reconsidered" exhibition and Dion's 21st-century journey that produced it are evoked inTravels of William Bartram - Reconsidered, a book filled with copious photographs, drawings, and texts. Essays by the organizing art curator and an art critic; the first history of Bartram's Garden published in 50 years, by its Resident Bartram Scholar; and excerpts from Mark Dion's travel diary and reproductions of letters and texts about the project and its people make this book a treasure trove of exploration that encompasses different times, spaces, and ideas of natural history and art. Distributed by Temple University Press for The John Bartram Association