Adrian Piper: A Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633450333 ISBN 13: 9781633450332

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018

Synopsis

Published in conjunction with MoMA s retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this scholarly volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper's practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed. Focused texts by established and emerging scholars assess themes in Piper s work such as the Kantian framework that draws on her extensive philosophical studies; her unique contribution to first-generation Conceptual art; the turning point in her work, in the early 1970s, from Conceptual works to performance; the connection of her work with her yoga practice; her ongoing exposure of and challenge to xenophobia and sexism; and the relation between prevailing interpretations of her work and the viewers who engender them.

About this title

About the Author:

Adrian Piper (American, born 1948) is a first-generation Conceptual artist and analytic philosopher. She received a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Musicology from the City College of New York in 1974 and a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1981. Piper s artwork is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Generali Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles, among others.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1633450333
• ISBN 13: 9781633450332
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Cornelia Butler, David Platzker