Exploring two parallel strands of post-conceptual art, Take It or Leave It highlights artists known for their use of appropriation and those who engage in "institutional critique." Focusing on American artists who emerged from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, the book highlights dynamic practices in a variety of media: from performance to photography; video to installation; painting to writing. Artists as wide-ranging in approach as Dara Birnbaum, Mark Dion, Barbara Kruger, Zoe Leonard, Stephen Prina, Adrian Piper, and ...
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Exploring two parallel strands of post-conceptual art, Take It or Leave It highlights artists known for their use of appropriation and those who engage in "institutional critique." Focusing on American artists who emerged from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, the book highlights dynamic practices in a variety of media: from performance to photography; video to installation; painting to writing. Artists as wide-ranging in approach as Dara Birnbaum, Mark Dion, Barbara Kruger, Zoe Leonard, Stephen Prina, Adrian Piper, and Fred Wilson are examined within the context of the larger culture - from the political landscape to design strategies in advertising. Essays by curators Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton as well as scholars George Baker, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Gavin Butt, and Darby English explore the historical and current terrain of appropriation and institutional critique, while pursuing topics including the downtown music scene in New York in the '80s, new strategies of painting, and theories of race after identity politics' heyday
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This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1850grams, ISBN: 9783791353425.
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VG. Electric blue cloth, BW illus. dust jacket, 288 pp., many BW & color illus.; weighs 4 lbs. Issued in conjunction with a 2014 exhibition that explores "two parallel strands of postconceptual art, " and "is the first large-scale survey to explore intersections between the artistic strategies of appropriation and institutional critique in the work of American artists....Focusing on [those] who emerged between the late 1970s and the early 1990s, [this book] highlights dynamic practices in a variety of mediums--including painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and performance--and presents work by thirty-five artists, among them Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Andrea Fraser, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Mary Kelly, Mike Kelley, Adrian Piper, Stephen Prina, Fred Wilson and David Wojnarowicz." (dj) With a variety of thematic essays, and samples of the artwork arranged by decade, 1970s-2000s.
