Institutional Critique
An Anthology of Artists' Writings
Published on 25. September 2009
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-262-01316-1 (ISBN)
Description
An anthology of writings and projects by artists who developed and extended the genre of institutional critique. "Institutional critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when-driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art-institutional critique emerged as a genre. This anthology traces the development of institutional critique as an artistic concern from the 1960s to the present by gathering writings and representative art projects of artists from across Europe and throughout the Americas who developed and extended the genre. The texts and artworks included are notable for the range of perspectives and positions they reflect and for their influence in pushing the boundaries of what is meant by institutional critique. Like Alberro and Stimson's Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology this volume will shed new light on its subject through its critical and historical framing. Even readers already familiar with institutional critique will come away from this book with a greater and often redirected understanding of its significance.Artists represented includeWieslaw Borowski, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, Hans Haacke, Robert Smithson, John Knight, Graciela Carnevale, Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Guerilla Art Action Group, Art Workers' Coalition, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Michael Asher, Mel Ramsden, Adrian Piper, The Guerrilla Girls, Laibach, Silvia Kolbowski, Andrea Fraser, Fred Wilson, Mark Dion, Maria Eichhorn, Critical Art Ensemble, Bureau d'Études, WochenKlausur, The Yes Men, Hito Steyerl, Andreas Siekmann.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Cloth over boards
Illustrations
60 b&w illus.; 120 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
1134 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01316-1 (9780262013161)
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Persons
Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of
Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics
of Publicity (2000). Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of
California, Davis. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its
Nation (2004). Alberro and Stimson are coeditors of Conceptual Art: A Critical
Anthology (2006), all published by the MIT Press.
Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of
California, Davis. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its
Nation (2004), and coeditor (with Alexander Alberro) of Conceptual Art: A Critical
Anthology (2000), both published by the MIT Press.
Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics
of Publicity (2000). Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of
California, Davis. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its
Nation (2004). Alberro and Stimson are coeditors of Conceptual Art: A Critical
Anthology (2006), all published by the MIT Press.
Blake Stimson is Professor of Art History at the University of
California, Davis. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its
Nation (2004), and coeditor (with Alexander Alberro) of Conceptual Art: A Critical
Anthology (2000), both published by the MIT Press.
Editor
Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History and Department ChairBarnard College
Professor of Art HistoryUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
Introduction
Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History and Department ChairBarnard College
Professor of Art HistoryUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
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