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From Susan Hiller to Marcel Broodthaers: exploring artists' use of the postcard in the reception and dissemination of art
The reception of art without the postcard is almost inconceivable, whether through museum postcards reproducing celebrated works, gallery invitation cards or editions created by artists themselves. Yet the postcard has received far less attention as an artistic medium in its own right. This publication explores how artists have used postcards not simply as vehicles for reproduction or communication, but as conceptual tools that question authorship, circulation, institutional frameworks and the experience of art. Focusing on projects from the early 1960s onward, it examines works by On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher and Mathilde ter Heijne. Through close analysis, the book demonstrates how these artists employed the postcard to construct self-reflective artistic practices while engaging with broader cultural and political contexts. Their projects reveal the postcard as both an everyday object and a powerful medium for rethinking contemporary art and its institutions.
Gregor Stemmrich (born 1953) is Professor of Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The reception of art without the postcard is inconceivable, whether one thinks of the art postcards that museums offer for sale, invitation postcards from galleries, or postcard editions by artists. Less commonly addressed is the fact that artists developed projects dealing with postcards that reveal a considered position on the art context. The present book focuses on artists' postcard projects since the early 1960s, especially those of On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, and Mathilde ter Heijne. In each of these projects, one can observe a self-institutionalization of an artistic practice and at the same time an impetus to reflect on it together with a virtual emblemizing of contemporaneity.Gregor Stemmrich studied art, philosophy, and art history. After a professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (from 1999), he accepted a professorship at the Free University of Berlin in 2007 and has been Professor of Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi since 2015.He published widely on modern and contemporary art. His book Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) - Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism was published by Hatje Cantz in 2023. 152 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9783775763356
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The reception of art without the postcard is inconceivable, whether one thinks of the art postcards that museums offer for sale, invitation postcards from galleries, or postcard editions by artists. Less commonly addressed is the fact that artists developed projects dealing with postcards that reveal a considered position on the art context. The present book focuses on artists' postcard projects since the early 1960s, especially those of On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, and Mathilde ter Heijne. In each of these projects, one can observe a self-institutionalization of an artistic practice and at the same time an impetus to reflect on it together with a virtual emblemizing of contemporaneity.Gregor Stemmrich studied art, philosophy, and art history. After a professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (from 1999), he accepted a professorship at the Free University of Berlin in 2007 and has been Professor of Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi since 2015.He published widely on modern and contemporary art. His book Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) - Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism was published by Hatje Cantz in 2023. 152 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9783775763356
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The reception of art without the postcard is inconceivable, whether one thinks of the art postcards that museums offer for sale, invitation postcards from galleries, or postcard editions by artists. Less commonly addressed is the fact that artists developed projects dealing with postcards that reveal a considered position on the art context. The present book focuses on artists' postcard projects since the early 1960s, especially those of On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, and Mathilde ter Heijne. In each of these projects, one can observe a self-institutionalization of an artistic practice and at the same time an impetus to reflect on it together with a virtual emblemizing of contemporaneity.Gregor Stemmrich studied art, philosophy, and art history. After a professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (from 1999), he accepted a professorship at the Free University of Berlin in 2007 and has been Professor of Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi since 2015.He published widely on modern and contemporary art. His book Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) - Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism was published by Hatje Cantz in 2023. Seller Inventory # 9783775763356
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The reception of art without the postcard is inconceivable, whether one thinks of the art postcards that museums offer for sale, invitation postcards from galleries, or postcard editions by artists. Less commonly addressed is the fact that artists developed projects dealing with postcards that reveal a considered position on the art context. The present book focuses on artists' postcard projects since the early 1960s, especially those of On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, and Mathilde ter Heijne. In each of these projects, one can observe a self-institutionalization of an artistic practice and at the same time an impetus to reflect on it together with a virtual emblemizing of contemporaneity.Gregor Stemmrich studied art, philosophy, and art history. After a professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (from 1999), he accepted a professorship at the Free University of Berlin in 2007 and has been Professor of Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi since 2015.He published widely on modern and contemporary art. His book Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) - Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism was published by Hatje Cantz in 2023. Seller Inventory # 9783775763356
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The reception of art without the postcard is inconceivable, whether one thinks of the art postcards that museums offer for sale, invitation postcards from galleries, or postcard editions by artists. Less commonly addressed is the fact that artists developed projects dealing with postcards that reveal a considered position on the art context. The present book focuses on artists' postcard projects since the early 1960s, especially those of On Kawara, Lawrence Weiner, Susan Hiller, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, and Mathilde ter Heijne. In each of these projects, one can observe a self-institutionalization of an artistic practice and at the same time an impetus to reflect on it together with a virtual emblemizing of contemporaneity.Gregor Stemmrich studied art, philosophy, and art history. After a professorship at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (from 1999), he accepted a professorship at the Free University of Berlin in 2007 and has been Professor of Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi since 2015.He published widely on modern and contemporary art. His book Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) - Modernism, Literalism, Postmodernism was published by Hatje Cantz in 2023. 152 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9783775763356