Re-Object |
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Artist:
| Duchamp, Marcel Hirst, Damien Koons, Jeff |
Foreword by:
| Schneider, Ekhard |
Text by:
| Egenhofer, Sebastian Molderings, Herbert Gray, John |
Editor:
| Schneider, Eckhard |
ISBN: | 978-3-902289-06-3 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
Publisher: | Kunsthaus Bregenz
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $70.00 |
Book Description:
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Urinals, vacuum cleaners, basketballs, glass sheets livestock? This study of key moments in the history of ready-made and object-based art features Damien Hirst (London), Gerhard Merz (Munich), Jeff Koons (New York) and their shared historical point of reference, Marcel Duchamp (Paris and New York 1887-1968). Recently a poll of 500 British critics called Duchamp's 1917 Fountain the most influential Modern artwork ever created. Even more recently, a Frenchman assaulted it with a hammer...
More DescriptionUrinals, vacuum cleaners, basketballs, glass sheets livestock? This study of key moments in the history of ready-made and object-based art features Damien Hirst (London), Gerhard Merz (Munich), Jeff Koons (New York) and their shared historical point of reference, Marcel Duchamp (Paris and New York 1887-1968). Recently a poll of 500 British critics called Duchamp's 1917 Fountain the most influential Modern artwork ever created. Even more recently, a Frenchman assaulted it with a hammer at the Centre Pompidou, confirming that, nearly a century later, emotions are still running high. Object-based art, which grew into a major twentieth-century trend and continues today, took its cue from the ready-made, and Re-Object explores the continuation and transformation of both lines in contemporary artistic practice, via large-format photographs and analytical essays on the artists.