A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition - Brossura

Krauss, Rosalind E.; Broodthaers, Marcel

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ISBN 10: 0500282072 ISBN 13: 9780500282076

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2000

Riassunto

Exploring the nature of the aesthetic medium has been at the heart of much of modern art. For exponents of high modernism, the essence of each medium lay inherently in its own particular material properties. Accordingly, the import of painting was its "flatness," as exemplified by the monochrome canvas. But some artists rejected this description as inadequate. Citing the examples of film, television, and video, they understood and articulated the medium as a complex structure of technical supports and layered conventions distinct from physical properties. Here, Rosalind Krauss positions the work of Marcel Broodthaers within this alternative narrative. Referring to the Belgian artist's films, books, graphic design, and museum "fictions," she presents Broodthaers as standing at, and thus standing for, the "complex" of the self-differing medium.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Rosalind Krauss is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University.

Product Description:

Based on the 1999 Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, this book uses the work of the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers to argue that the specifity of mediums, even modernist ones, can never be simply collapsed into the physicality of their support.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0500282072
• ISBN 13: 9780500282076
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 64