Materializing "Six Years" by Catherine Morris

Materializing "Six Years" by Catherine Morris

Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book. Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'--Lucy R. Lippard, Six YearsIn 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. Nearly forty years later, the Brooklyn Museum takes Lippard's celebrated experiment in curated concatenation as a template, turning a book that resembled an exhibition into an exhibition materializing the ideas in her book. The artworks and essays featured in this publication recall the thrill that was tangible in Lippard's original documentation, reminding us that during the late sixties and early seventies all possible social and material parameters of art (making) were played with, worked over, inverted, reduced, expanded, and rejected. By tracing Lippard's own activities in those years, the book also documents the early blurring of boundaries among critical, curatorial, and artistic practices. With more than 200 images of work by dozens of artists (printed in color throughout), this book brings Lippard's curatorial experiment full circle.

Vincent Bonin: Author and independent curator, interested in the social significance of archives and in the renewal of documentation practices in the contemporary art domain.
France Choiniü¾Ž†”¼re: Director at Dazibao, Montrü¾Ž–”¼al, Canada.
Michü¾Ž†”¼le Thü¾Ž–”¼riault: Curator, writer and editor and is currently Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montrü¾Ž–”¼al, Canada. She has developed a program that reflects upon contemporary artistic production and curatorial activity in relation to the recent history of contemporary art.

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ISBN 13	9780262018166
ISBN 10	0262018160
Title	Materializing "Six Years"
Author	Catherine Morris
Series	The Mit Press
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2012-08-24
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of Winner, 2012 Specific Object Publication of the Year Award 2012
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.