Open Systems: Art and the World c.1970
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Open Systems: Art and the World c.1970 by Donna De Salvo
Open Systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and 1970s as they sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade and make their work more responsive to the world around them. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, the mid-Sixties saw a radical departure from art's traditional focus on the object, to wide-ranging experiments with media that included dance, performance and, most notably, film and video. One characteristic of all the artists featured is their adoption of experimental aesthetic 'systems' to generate their work, a development that was to have tremendous influence on artists for decades to come. Open Systems features the works of prominent international artists who emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, working in Britain, Europe, South America, Japan and the United States, and includes sculpture, sculptural installations, painting, film, video, photography and printed matter.
The book will include newly commissioned essays by leading critics and art historians, including Brois Groys and J.D. Connor, as well as a selection of seminal texts of the period. Artists examined in the book include: Bas Jan Ader, Askagegawa Genpie, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Lygia Clark, Valie Export, Fluxus, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Joan Jonas, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Paul McCarthy, Cildo Meireles, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Heilio Oiticica, On Kawara, Michaelangelo Pisoletto, Charles Ray, Gerhard Richter, Robert Smithson, Martha Rosler and Franz West. Donna De Salvo is Associate Director for Programs and Curator, Permanent Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art, new York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854375650 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854375652 |
| Title | Open Systems: Art and the World c.1970 |
| Author | Donna De Salvo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Tate Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 183 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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