One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

Kwon, Miwon

ISBN 10: 026261202X / ISBN 13: 9780262612029

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004

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218 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted on the inseparability of the work and its context." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Genealogy of site specificity; Unhinging of site specificity; Sitings of public art: integration versus intervention; From site to community in new genre public art: the case of "culture in action"; The (un)sitings of community; By way of a conclusion: one place after another. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026261202X
• ISBN 13: 9780262612029
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999
  • Movements::Conceptual Art
  • Movements::Earthworks

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Synopsis

A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s.

About the Author

<DIV>Miwon Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.</DIV>