Beyond Objecthood
The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968
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- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2017
Summary
The rise of the exhibition as critical form and artistic medium, from Robert Smithson’s antimodernist non-sites in 1968 to today’s institutional gravitation toward the participatory.In 1968, Robert Smithson reacted to Michael Fried’s influential essay “Art and Objecthood” with a series of works called non-sites. While Fried described the spectator’s connection with a work of art as a momentary visual engagement, Smithson’s non-sites asked spectators to do something more- to take time looking,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262035521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262035529 |
| Author: | James Voorhies |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2017 |
| Weight: | 854g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 165mm x 29mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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James Voorhies
James Voorhies is a curator and art historian of modern and contemporary art. He is Dean of Fine Arts and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
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