
Less is a Bore
Maximalist Art & Design
Jill Medvedow(Author)
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-9972538-4-9 (ISBN)
Description
Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design is a multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design. Borrowing its ethos from Robert Venturi's infamous retort to Mies van der Rohe's modernist edict less is more, it includes works that privilege decoration and maximalism over modernism's ornament as crime philosophy. The catalog begins in the 1970s with artists who sought to rattle the dominance of modernism and minimalism, such as those affiliated with Pattern & Decoration. Less Is a Bore includes experiments in patterning by Sanford Biggers, Jasper Johns and Miriam Schapiro; the transgressive sculpture and furniture of Lucas Samaras and Ettore Sottsass; and the installations of Polly Apfelbaum, Nathalie du Pasquier and Virgil Marti. Also included are works by Roger Brown, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Jeffrey Gibson, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Ellen Lesperance, Sol LeWitt, Howardena Pindell, Lari Pittman, Pae White and Betty Woodman, among others.
Reviews / Votes
A spectacular swathe of over-the-topness. -- Glenn Adamson * Art in America *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Illustrations
125
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-9972538-4-9 (9780997253849)
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