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Open systems : rethinking art c. 1970 / edited by Donna De Salvo ; contributions by Johanna Burton, Mark Godfrey, Boris Groys.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Tate Publishing ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005.Description: 1v. (various pagings) : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 1854375652 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.046 DES
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709.046 DES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000285941

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Open Systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and 1970s as they sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade and make their work more responsive to the world around them. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, the mid-Sixties saw a radical departure from art's traditional focus on the object, to wide-ranging experiments with media that included dance, performance and, most notably, film and video. One characteristic of all the artists featured is their adoption of experimental aesthetic 'systems' to generate their work, a development that was to have tremendous influence on artists for decades to come. Open Systems features the works of prominent international artists who emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, working in Britain, Europe, South America, Japan and the United States, and includes sculpture, sculptural installations, painting, film, video, photography and printed matter.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Modern, London, 1 June-29 August 2005.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword (p. 6)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 7)
  • Where We Begin: Opening the system, c.1970 (p. 10)
  • From Box to Street and Back Again: An inadequate descriptive system for the Seventies (p. 24)
  • The Mimesis of Thinking (p. 50)
  • Mystics Rather than Rationalists (p. 64)
  • Plates (p. 81)
  • The Serial Attitude (p. 162)
  • Systems Esthetics (p. 165)
  • Intermedia (p. 170)
  • Specific Objects (p. 172)
  • The Response to Crisis (p. 175)
  • Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967) (p. 180)
  • Environmental Art, Postmodern Art: Helio Oiticica (p. 182)
  • Select bibliography (p. 184)
  • Copyright and photo credits (p. 187)
  • List of exhibited works (p. 188)
  • Lenders (p. 190)
  • Index (p. 191)

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