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I Stand in My Place With My Own Day Here : Site-Specific Art at The New School
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ISBN: 147800911X Year: 2019 Publisher: Durham, NC : New York, NY : Distributed worldwide by Duke University Press The New School,

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Features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers who consider thirteen monumental works of art created for The New School between 1930 and the present. The nucleus of The New School's Art Collection, these commissions--ranking among the finest site-specific works in New York City--range from murals by Jose Clemente Orozco and Thomas Hart Benton to installations by Agnes Denes, Kara Walker, Alfredo Jaar, Glenn Ligon, Sol LeWitt, and Martin Puryear + Michael Van Valkenburgh, among others. Providing a kaleidoscopic view into these works, this richly illustrated volume explores each installation through three to four essays written by critics, poets, and scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, mathematics, art history, media studies, and design. Their texts are complemented by three additional essays reflecting on each piece's art historical significance; the architectural contexts in which the works reside on the university's campus; and The New School's relationship to adventurous art practice. Also included is a roundtable discussion among leading arts educators and artists who reflect on the pedagogical potential of a campus-based contemporary art collection. The book's final section presents a history of each commissioned work, highlighted by archival images never before published.


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Un art contextuel : création artistique en milieu urbain, en situation, d'intervention, de participation
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ISBN: 9782081225138 2081225131 Year: 2002 Volume: 911 Publisher: Paris : Flammarion,

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"Dès les débuts du XXe siècle, de nombreux artistes délaissent le territoire de l'idéalisme, rejettent en bloc les formes traditionnelles de représentation et désertent les lieux institutionnels pour s'immerger dans l'ordre des choses concrètes. La réalité devient une préoccupation première, avec, pour conséquence, une refonte du "monde de l'art", de la galerie au musée, du marché au concept d'art lui-même. Emergent alors des pratiques et des formes artistiques inédites : art d'intervention et art engagé de caractère activiste, art investissant l'espace urbain ou le paysage, esthétiques participatives ou actives dans les champs de l'économie, des médias, ou du spectacle. L'artiste devient un acteur social impliqué, souvent perturbateur. Quant à l'oeuvre d'art, elle adopte un tour résolument neuf, problématique, plus que jamais en relation avec le monde tel qu'il va. Elle en appelle à la mise en valeur de la réalité brute, au "contexte" justement. L'art devient contextuel"


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Gordon Matta-Clark : anarchitect
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ISBN: 9780300230437 0300230435 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bronx The Bronx Museum of the Arts

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"This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York, where he initiated a series of site-specific works in derelict areas of the South Bronx. The borough's many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark's raw material. His series 'Bronx Floors' dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of ther ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with 'Conical Interserct', a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of seventeenth-century row houses slatted for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou's construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark's practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics."


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The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums : Staging Contemporary Art
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ISBN: 9463723765 9048554543 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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Site-specific installations are created for a specific location and are usually intended as temporary artworks. The Perpetuation of Site-Specific Installation Artworks in Museums. Staging Contemporary Art shows that these artworks consist of more than a singular manifestation and that their lifespan is often extended. This book provides an in-depth account of the paradoxical situation when site-specific installations are being preserved and put on display in a museum context. Tatja Scholte offers a conceptual framework for scholars and professionals in order to better understand the transformative nature of site-specific installation art and to support decision-making in museums as to conserving and presenting these artworks over time. The case studies provide insight into the diversity of artistic production over the last forty years. They explore how site-specific installations gain new meanings and forms in a museum context, and, vice versa, how these artworks become agents for change of professional routines and museum strategies.

One place after another : site-specific art and locational identity
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ISBN: 0262277808 142372996X 9780262277808 0262112655 9780262112659 026261202X 9780262612029 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT press,

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A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s.Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces. One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.


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Natural architecture now : new projects from outside the boundaries of design.
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ISBN: 9781616891404 1616891408 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Princeton architectural press

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"This book is a follow-up to our steady seller Natural Architecture. Presenting all new work by twenty artists not featured in the first volume as well as new projects by a selection of artists discussed in the first edition, Natural Architecture Now will showcase extraordinary spaces and exceptional structures created using natural materials and manual labor. The works make direct reference to the world of nature in terms of their location, the materials used, and a minimum application of non-artisan techniques. These are beautiful structures that use the resources of place, the specific characteristics of the site, growth processes, and spontaneous and accidental phenomena to investigate our feelings about nature, while addressing ecology, landscape, and environment as belonging to art"--

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