Institutional critique : an anthology of artists' writings / edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson.

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Book
Language
English
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First MIT Press paperback edition.
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2011.
Description
492 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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      Summary note
      This title is an anthology of writings & projects by artists from across Europe & the Americas who have developed & expanded the genre of institutional critique. This is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries & museums & on the concept & social function of art itself.
      Notes
      Originally published: 2009.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Institutions, critique, and institutional critique / Alexander Alberro
      • What was institutional critique? / Blake Stimson
      • I. Framing: An introduction to the general theory of place (1966) / Wieslaw Borowski, Hanna Ptaszkowska, Mariusz Tchorek
      • Statement (1967) / Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni
      • Where Art Thou, Sweet Muse? (I'm Hung Up at the Whitney) (1967) / Allan Kaprow
      • What Is a museum? : a dialogue (1967) / Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson
      • New commitment (1968) / Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel
      • Demystifying art (1968) / Julio Le Parc
      • Project for the experimental art series (1968) / Eduardo Favario
      • Project for the experimental art series (1968) / Graciela Carnevale
      • We must always resist the lures of complicity (1968) / Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Aldo Bortolotti, et al.
      • A conversation with Freddy de Vree, 1969 (1969) / Marcel Broodthaers
      • A call for the immediate resignation of all of the Rockefellers from the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art (1969) / Guerrilla Art Action Group
      • Statement of demands (1969) / Art Workers' Coalition
      • Art Workers' Coalition open hearing presentation (1969) / Gregory Battcock
      • Art Workers' Coalition open hearing statement (1969) / Jean Toche
      • Communique (1969) / Guerrilla Art Action Group
      • The function of the museum (1970) / Daniel Buren
      • The function of the studio (1971) / Daniel Buren
      • Provisional remarks (1971) / Hans Haacke
      • Project : inside/outside the museum (1971) / Lea Lublin
      • A conversation with Freddy de Vree, 1971 (1971) / Marcel Broodthaers
      • Musèe d'Art Moderne, Departement des Aigles (1972) / Marcel Broodthaers
      • Cultural confinement (1972) / Robert Smithson
      • Manifesto for maintenance art 1969! : proposal for an exhibition "CARE" (1969) / Mierle Laderman Ukeles
      • September 21-October 12, 1974, Claire Copley Gallery, Inc., Los Angeles, California (1974) / Michael Asher
      • The constituency (1976) / Hans Haacke
      • The agent (1977) / Hans Haacke
      • II. Institution of art: On practice (1975) / Mel Ramsden
      • Lookers, buyers, dealers, and makers: thoughts on audience (1979) / Martha Rosler
      • Caution! Alternative space! (1982) / Group Material
      • Statement (1983) / Group Material
      • Some thoughts on the political character of this situation (1983) / Adrian Piper
      • Power relations within existing art institutions (1983) / Adrian Piper
      • Museums, managers of consciousness (1984) / Hans Haacke
      • In and out of place (1985) / Andrea Fraser
      • Why Third text? (1987) / Rasheed Araeen
      • Enlarged from the catalogue : the art of Precolumbian gold, The Jan Mitchell collection (1990) / Silvia Kolbowski
      • III. Institutionalizing: An artist's statement (1992) / Andrea Fraser
      • Constructing the spectacle of culture in museums (1992) / Ivan Karp, Fred Wilson
      • A conversation with Martha Buskirk (1994) / Fred Wilson
      • Symbolic capital management, or what to do with the good, the true, and the beautiful (1997) / Hans Haacke
      • The museum as muse : Asher Reflects (1999) / Michael Asher, Stephan Pascher
      • Untitled (1999) / Mark Dion
      • Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company (2002) / Maria Eichhorn
      • Who's afraid of JK? (2005) / John Knight, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Isabelle Graw
      • From the critique of institutions to an institution of critique (2005) / Andrea Fraser
      • IV. Exit strategies: 10 items of the covenant (1983) / Laibach
      • Tactical media (1996) / Critical Art Ensemble
      • Tactics inside and out (2004) / Gregg Bordowitz
      • Resymbolizing machines : art after Öyvind Fahlstrom (2004) / Bureau d'Études
      • From the object to the concrete intervention (2005) / WochenKlausur
      • Engaging ambivalence : interventions in engineering culture (2005) / Institute for Applied Autonomy
      • Jude Finisterra interviewed (2004) / The Yes Men
      • The institution of critique (2006) / Hito Steyerl.
      ISBN
      • 9780262516648 ((pbk.))
      • 0262516640 ((pbk.))
      OCLC
      751834515
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