The Grid
Published on 16. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-2-39025-253-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Grid examines the multiple uses of the grid in contemporary art. Textile weaves, graphic grids, framework for materials, typological systems, spatio-temporal frameworks, computer matrix, narratives and documentary devices. The Grid presents works by renowned artists including Max Bill, Francois Morellet, Vera Molnar, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Esther Ferrer, Gina Pane, Christian Boltanski, Sherrie Levine, Claudia Andujar, Analivia Cordeiro and Anna Bella Geiger.
"Each grid has its own texture, uniqueness, individuating features, capacities for creative enactment, and relationship to other grids, as much as each person combines and utilises a grid for him- or herself.' Hannah B. Higgins
"Each grid has its own texture, uniqueness, individuating features, capacities for creative enactment, and relationship to other grids, as much as each person combines and utilises a grid for him- or herself.' Hannah B. Higgins
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Language
English
Place of publication
Tielt
Belgium
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
80 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-2-39025-253-5 (9782390252535)
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Persons
Alexander Streitberger is a university professor of Art History at UCLouvain and the director of the 'Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture'. Olivia Ardui is an art historian. She specialises in the Brazilian arts from the 1960s onwards. She is interested in the performative and visual arts and currently teaches at UCLouvain.