Klaus Groh (ed.): Aktuelle Kunst in Osteuropa (1972) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, action art, art, avant-garde, body art, conceptual art, east-central europe, eastern europe, land art
“This book by the West-German mail artist, editor and collector Klaus Groh, published in 1972, was an important contribution to familiarizing Western Europe with Eastern-European, primarily conceptual art and land art, body art, action, etc. This frequently cited publication includes works by 78 artists.” (Source)
Publisher DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne, 1972
ISBN 3770106172, 9783770106172
222 pages
via Artpool Budapest
Robert Morris: Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris (1993)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art criticism, art theory, land art, minimal art, perception, sculpture, space
“Robert Morris is best known for his significant contributions to minimalist sculpture and antiform art, as well as for a number of widely influential theoretical writings on art. Illustrated throughout, this collection of his seminal essays from the 1960s to the 1980s addresses wide-ranging intellectual and philosophical problems of sculpture, raising issues of materiality, size and shape, anti-illusionism, and perceptual conditions.
Included are the influential ‘Notes on Sculpture’ which in four parts carefully articulates the shifting terrains of sculpture during the 1960s, tracing its movement from the gestalt-driven unitary forms of minimalism, through permutable pieces to the formally dispersed process-oriented antiform art that appeared later in the decade, and Morris’s landmark essay on ‘Anti Form’, which marked a departure from art as object. In ‘The Art of Existence’, Morris deftly and humorously invents three artists, who in their movement away from object-art and toward the extra-visual, reveal the limits and conditions of modern sculpture. Essays of the 1970s and 1980s reveal Morris’s preoccupation with the broad conditions of memory and space, which were explored in his experiments with land reclamation and land art, with labyrinthine environments and carceral imagery. In the later essays, Morris looks at modern art’s development in America, based on a framework of strategies produced by Duchamp, Pollock, and other key figures. And in a refiguration of an interview with Roger Denson, Morris acts out a subtle mockery of himself and his art, collapsing the high seriousness of the intended format into a playful scheme.”
Publisher MIT Press, 1993
An October Book
ISBN 026213294X, 9780262132947
xi+326 pages
Reviews: Gary Shapiro (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1997), Tony Godfrey (Art Book 1994).
PDF (45 MB)
Comment (0)Marga Bijvoet: Art as Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Between Art, Science, and Technology (1997) [EN, DE]
Filed under book | Tags: · 1960s, 1970s, art, art and science, art history, art theory, artistic research, ecology, environment, land art, media art, science, site-specific art, systems art, technology, video, video art
“Art as Inquiry is a pioneering yet under-recognized monographic study of art in the 1960s and early 1970s; Despite the subtitle, Bijvoet’s artistic concerns are not exclusively focused on science and technology, but rather with the “‘moving out’ into nature or the environment and the “moving ‘into technology’”: twin tendencies that, in her mind, stand out amidst the pluralism of 1960s art. She claims that these movements not only broke “the boundaries of art and … the commercial art world structure” but more importantly that environmental artists and tech artists both sought out and engaged in collaborations in which the artist “entered into a new relationship with the environment, space, public arena, onto the terrain of other sciences.”” (Edward A. Shanken)
Publisher Peter Lang, 1997
ISBN 0820433829, 9780820433820
x+283 pages
Review: Alan Dorin (2006).
WorldCat (EN)
Art as Inquiry (English, 1997, HTML, at Internet Archive)
Kunst-Forschung (German, n.d., HTML, at Internet Archive)