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Michael Asher / edited by Jennifer King ; essays and interviews by Barbara Munger, Sandy Ballatore, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Michael Asher, Anne Rorimer, Birgit Pelzer, Allan Sekula, Stephan Pascher, Jennifer King, and Miwon Kwon.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
©2016
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xi, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
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Subject(s)
Asher, Michael
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Criticism and interpretation
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Asher, Michael
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Interviews
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Editor
Logan, Jennifer King
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Writer of added text
Munger, Barbara
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Ballatore, Sandy
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Buchloh, B. H. D.
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Asher, Michael
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Rorimer, Anne
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Pelzer, Birgit
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Sekula, Allan
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Pascher, Stephan
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Kwon, Miwon
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Interviewee
Asher, Michael
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Interviewer
Pascher, Stephan
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October files ; 19.
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October Files ; 19
Summary note
"During a career that spanned more than forty years, from the late 1960s until his death in 2012, Michael Asher created site-specific installations and institutional interventions that examined the conditions of art's production, display, and reception. At the Art Institute of Chicago, for example, he famously relocated a bronze replica of an eighteenth-century sculpture of George Washington from the museum's entrance to an interior gallery, thereby highlighting the disjunction between the statue's symbolic function as a public monument and its aesthetic origins as an artwork. Today, Asher is celebrated as one of the forerunners of institutional critique. Yet because of Asher's situation-based method of working, and his resistance to making objects that could circulate in the art market, few of his works survive in physical form. What does survive is writing by scholars and critics about his diverse practice. The essays in this volume document projects that range from Asher's environmental works and museum displacements to his research-based presentations and reflections on urban space."--Publisher's website.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Michael Asher: an environmental project / Barbara Munger
Michael Asher: less is enough / Sandy Ballatore
Context, function, use value: Michael Asher's re-materialization of the artwork / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, January 15-February 10, 1977 / Michael Asher
Michael Asher and the conclusion of modernist sculpture / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Michael Asher at the Renaissance Society / Anne Rorimer
The insistent detail / Birgit Pelzer
Michael Asher, down to earth / Allan Sekula
Interview with Michael Asher on the occasion of The museum as muse: artists reflect at the Museum of Modern Art, New York / Stephan Pascher
Perpetually out of place: Michael Asher and Jean-Antoine Houdon at the Art Institute of Chicago / Jennifer King
Support and decoration: Michael Asher's critique of the architecture of display / Miwon Kwon
Approaching architecture: the case of Michael Asher / Miwon Kwon.
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ISBN
9780262528795 ((paperback))
0262528797 ((paperback))
9780262034302 ((hardcover))
0262034301 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016302135
OCLC
936186423
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Michael Asher / edited by Jennifer King ; essays and interviews by Barbara Munger, Sandy Ballatore, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Michael Asher, Anne Rorimer, Birgit Pelzer, Allan Sekula, Stephen Pascher, Jennifer King, and Miwon Kwon.
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