| Description |
xviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Site-Specifics -- Nights In This City: diverse letters and fragments relating to a performance now past / Tim Etchells -- Spaces -- Performing the Gallery: Robert Morris and Michelangelo Pistoletto -- Performing the City: Krzysztof Wodiczko -- Architecture and Event: Bernard Tschumi -- 'Placeevent': Brith Gof -- Le Stanze (The Rooms) / Michelangelo Pistoletto -- Site -- Mapping Site: Robert Smithson -- Unmappable Spaces -- Performing Mapping: Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Wolf Vostell -- Space as Map and Memory: Meredith Monk -- Ten Feet and Three Quarters of an Inch of Theatre / Clifford McLucas -- Materials -- Material Affects: Gilberto Zorio, Giovanni Anselmo, Giuseppe Penone -- Embodying Site: Dennis Oppenheim and Vito Acconci -- Theatrical Materials: Station House Opera -- The Breeze Block Performances / Julian Maynard Smith -- Frames -- Repetition and Location: Daniel Buren -- 'Framing and Being Framed': Hans Haacke -- Performing Inside and Outside: Fiona Templeton -- Site-Specific Works / Meredith Monk -- Conclusion: Documentation |
| Summary |
"Site Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling a unique documentation of contemporary practice around the world." "The book is divided into individual analyses of the themes of space, materials, site, and frames. These are interspersed by specially commissioned documentary artwork from some of the world's foremost practitioners and artists working today." "Site Specific Art investigates the relationship of architectural theory to an understanding of contemporary site related art and performance, and questions how such works can be documented. The artistic processes involved are demonstrated through entirely new primary articles from Meredith Monk, Station House Opera, Brith Gof, and Forced Entertainment."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Arts, Modern -- 20th century.
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Installations (Art)
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Site-specific art.
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| LC no. |
00026402 |
| ISBN |
0415185580 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0415185599 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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