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Publisher
Independent Curators
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"The Presence of Absence does not intend to resurrect the 1960s viewpoint that execution is less important than conception; it does, however, provoke questions about conceptual arts relevance both by implicit comparison to the so-called neo-conceptual school, and by serving as a catalyst for new works that adapt and revise many of conceptual arts strategies. Execution is neither perfunctory nor unnecessary here, even though the exhibition excludes...
Publisher
Triple Canopy
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Corrected slogans represents a vital discourse on conceptual practices in contemporary art and poetry. In conjunction with the exhibition, 'Postscript: writing after conceptual art' organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the online magazine Triple Canopy hosted a series of public conversations between some of the most innovative artists and poets working today. The symposium 'Poems for America' asked how conceptual strategies of writing...
Author
Publisher
Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Since the beginning of his career in the 1950s, Russian artist 'Erik Bulatov' (born 1933) has investigated the potential of painting as social commentary. A founder of the school of Moscow Conceptualism alongside Ilya Kabakov, Collective Actions and Komar & Melamid, among others, Bulatov developed what has been described as conceptual painting, using text and image to explore spatial preoccupations that mirror his understanding of social relations....
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The documentary draws an in-depth portrait of the masked Robin Hood of the art world. Each investigation reveals a facet of the artist: his political views; commitment to environmental causes and political refugees; his links with the music scene and his entrepreneurial side. All in search of an answer to the question: do we need to know the artist behind the name to appreciate the artwork?
14) Sorted books
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Sorted Books is many things at the same time: a series of sculptures, or photographs, or site-specific installations; a collection of short stories, or poems, or jokes; a work in which the 'found object' is subject alike to chance and the most painstaking choices; a delicate conceptual game with the horizontal and the vertical. But it is first of all an act of reading." -- from the introduction, by Brian Dillon.
17) Barbara Kruger
Author
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the career and work of Barbara Kruger, focusing on her exploitation of social-psychological messages embedded in popular culture through the integration of photography and text in installation pieces around the world.