Introducing Tony Conrad: a Retrospective |
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| Text by:
| Conrad, Tony
Chaffee, Cathleen
Adams, Rachel
Alemani, Vera
DeJong, Constance
Diederichsen, Diedrich
Elms, Anthony
Grubbs, David
Huldisch, Henriette
Joseph, Branden
Lampert, Andrew
Müller, Christopher
Ochmanek, Annie
Oursler, Tony
Ryan, Tina Rivers
Sanders, Jay
Sarlin, Paige
Williams, Christopher |
| Editor:
| Chaffee, Cathleen |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96098-336-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2019 |
| Publisher: | Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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An in-depth introduction to an artist who forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and a vast range of cultural forms
Throughout his six-decade career, Tony Conrad (1940-2016) forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and a vast range of cultural forms--from Fluxus to rock music, from structural film to public access television. Published on the occasion of the first large-scale museum survey devoted to works Conrad presented in museum and...
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An in-depth introduction to an artist who forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and a vast range of cultural forms
Throughout his six-decade career, Tony Conrad (1940-2016) forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and a vast range of cultural forms--from Fluxus to rock music, from structural film to public access television. Published on the occasion of the first large-scale museum survey devoted to works Conrad presented in museum and gallery settings, this richly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth introduction to Conrad's life and career.
Including new texts and Conrad's own writings about selected works dating from 1966 to 2016, Introducing Tony Conradsurveys the artist's work in painting, sculpture, film, video, performance and installation. It includes the artist's early structural films; projects in which he treated film as a sculptural and performative material; his series of Invented Acoustical Tools, presented as sculptures themselves; his ambitious films about power relations, set in the military and in prison; and his final sculptures and installations, which evoke and critique what he perceived as an emerging culture of surveillance, control and containment. The list of contributors testifies to Conrad's wide and lasting influence; this volume includes texts by Constance DeJong, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, Branden W. Joseph, Tony Oursler and Christopher Williams, among many others.