Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262018160 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lippard. "Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'"--Lucy R. The artworks and essays featured in this publication recall the thrill that was tangible in Lippard's original documentation, reminding us that during the late sixties and early seventies all possible social and material parameters of art (making) were played with, worked over, inverted, reduced, expanded, and rejected. With more than 200 images of work by dozens of artists (printed in color throughout), this book brings Lippard's curatorial experiment full circle.. Lippard, Six YearsIn 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Nearly forty years later, the Brooklyn Museum takes Lippard's celebrated experiment in curated concatenation as a template, turning a book that resembled an exhibition into an exhibition materiali
. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.Vincent Bonin is an independent curator living in Montreal. Catherine Morris is Curator of the Elizabeth A
—Johanna Burton . The result is that the original Six Years is both expanded (privileging new elements) and reduced (because so much had to be left out). Yet it should be said that Materializing, too, suffers from not knowing quite what it is. Where the older book was sprawling and unwieldy, Materializing attempts to tidy up, with awkward results. From BookforumMaterializing "Six Years" examines a pivotal figure and dives deeply into the subtext (even the subconscious) of a canonical object we think we know