Out of Order, Out of Sight: Selected Writings in Meta-art, 1968-92 v. 1 (Writing Art) - Hardcover

Piper, Adrian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262161559 ISBN 13: 9780262161558

Publisher: MIT Press, 1997

Synopsis

Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer-artists who have provided much of the basic and most reliable literature on modern and contemporary art. Out of Order, Out of Sight is an artistic and intellectual autobiography and an (occasionally scathing) commentary on mainstream art, art criticism, and American culture of the last twenty-five years.Piper is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and the only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s. The writings in Out of Order, Out of Sight trace the development of her thinking about her artwork and the art world, and her evolving awareness of herself as a creative, racial, and gendered subject situated in an often limiting and always absurd cultural and social context.

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Review:

Out of Order, Out of Sight is a life's work, a testament to passionate reason and social justice. It is also an extraordinary intellectual and aesthetic autobiography by one of the most inspiring artist-philosophers of our times.

--Peggy Phelan "Women's Review of Books "

Synopsis:

This autobiography traces the development of Adrian Piper's thinking about her work and that of the art world around her. The first volume documents and considers her own work, from her early installations as conceptual artist to the many alternative perspectives and personae of recent years.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0262161559
• ISBN 13: 9780262161558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320