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One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
Miwon Kwon
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Description for One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
Paperback. A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s. Num Pages: 232 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 177 x 12. Weight in Grams: 518.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262612029
SKU
V9780262612029
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About Miwon Kwon
Miwon Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
What makes this book so strong is the steady course it plots through the inevitable polemical rapids. -ARTFORUM ...will be valuable for practitioners in the field. -Timothy P. Brown , Afterimage