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When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated--the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others.
O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system.
These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.
O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system.
These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.
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"These famous essays are as fresh and stimulating today as when they jumped off the pages of Artforum. Those who have not read Brian O'Doherty will relish his poetically phrased, elegantly written, and ironically tempered taunt to so many received notions about twentieth-century mainstream art."--Jan van der Marck, author of Arman
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Lively and enduring,
This review is from: Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition (Paperback)
If the title of this book seems familiar, it's because it has adopted by almost everyone writing in the field of museum studies. But the difference between O'Doherty's original and perceptive analysis of the fraught interrelationship of art and galleries in the 20th century and his academic followers lies in his punchy and incisive analysis and equally lively language. The book is worth reading for chapter two alone, in which he develops the characters of the Spectator and the Eye, hilarious parodies of art-writing that still sting today. The book is really a history of twentieth-century art told through the lens of the gallery. The sections on Schwitters, Duchamp and Christo are brilliant and feel new and relevant even after 40 years. The style is witty and irreverent, eminently readable.
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This review is from: Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition (Paperback)
This book is a fascinating analysis of how the World of Art changed with the introduction of the gallery space. It examines the reaction of artists to the confines, both physical and psychological, of the gallery.I highly recommend this book for any student of art, or artist who wants to broaden their frame of reference with regards to art history and the current trajectory of contemporary art. |
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