Exhibition, Design, Participation: 'an Exhibit' 1957 and Related Shows - Exhibition Histories. Vol 7: An Exhibit 1957 and Related Projects, Exhibition Histories Vol. 7 - Softcover

Crippa, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 386335897X ISBN 13: 9783863358976

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2024

Synopsis

Published with Afterall Books.

The radical project an Exhibit (mounted in 1957 at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) emerged from a decade of testing the formats and possibilities of exhibition making, resulting in a show with the motto "No objects, no ideas." A collaboration between two artists, Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, and a critic and curator, Lawrence Alloway, the show was simultaneously an investigation into abstract environmental forms and a participatory experiment that would fundamentally transform the role of the viewer.

In this volume, comprehensive documentation of the original exhibition is presented alongside coverage of other key projects from the era and contextualized in a detailed essay by Elena Crippa. Archival texts conveying the different voices of the project's three creators, and a contemporaneous essay by David Sylvester, are accompanied by new contributions from Martin Beck, Owen Hatherley and Lucy Steeds.

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About the Author

Anthony David Bernard Sylvester CBE, (21 September 1924; London - 19 June 2001; London) was a British art critic and curator. Although he received no formal education in the arts, during his long career he was influential in promoting modern artists, in particular the work of Joan Miro, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 386335897X
• ISBN 13: 9783863358976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240