When these essays first appeared in "Artforum" in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated - the three issues of "Artforum" in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.
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Brian O'Doherty, a.k.a. Patrick Ireland, is an artist and writer. His work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. His books include Object and Idea (1967) and American Masters: The Voice and the Myth (1973, 1988).
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The book offers insights into the world of the exhibition space in an entity itself. Well written and highly insightful, taking you on a journey to find out what is behind the work and how the space informs the way that we think about the work that is shown.
Would recmmend for art students at any level, especially for those hoping to go onto work in a gallery or museum or are wanting to find out how they can display their work in a coherent way.
Would recmmend for art students at any level, especially for those hoping to go onto work in a gallery or museum or are wanting to find out how they can display their work in a coherent way.
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This is an absolute classic which everyone who has anything with art to do should have read, or atleast have dipped into. This edition has pictures which brings the whole thing to life. Depressing truths about the art market are made palatable 'though they still taste sickening.
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I bought this book for my presentational strategies module during MA.It is very helpful to understand the functions of the museum, relations with the audience etc.
Kind of a short but very good introduction to the museum history and its practices.
Kind of a short but very good introduction to the museum history and its practices.
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