By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception and practice of art in Europe and North America. The cultural and political context for this change reflected the desire for social transformation expressed in clashes with authority, such as the protests against the Vietnam War, that signalled a counterculture's defiance of ...
A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broader culture.
This overview of Conceptual Art documents the work of 54 artists, work that marked a significant rupture with traditional forms and concepts of painting, sculpture, photography, and film. By 1969, such artists as Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and others had begun ...
In a 1979 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, American conceptual artist Michael Asher, known for his 'site-specific' work that investigates the relationship between a piece of art and its place of display, relocated a 20th-century bronze cast of Jean-Antoine Houdon's famous marble George Washington (1788) from the museum's front steps to ...
Ger van Elk has been working on a highly versatile oeuvre for over forty years. As an artist, he occupies a self-willed position: earnest, radical, witty and ever in search of ambiguity. This new book constitutes the first ever in-depth study of this artist's work. It will be published to coincide with the opening of a fascinating exhibition at ...
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