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Eccentric Objects
Jo Applin
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Hardcover. In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Looking beyond the familiar and canonic artworks of the 1960s, this book challenges not only how we think about these artists, but how we learn to look at the more familiar narratives of 1960s sculpture, such as Pop and Minimalism. Num Pages: 224 pages, 40 colour images + 38 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; ACXJ; AFKB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 263 x 22. Weight in Grams: 948.
In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H. C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered alternative ways of imagining the three-dimensional object. The objects they created were variously described as erotic, soft, figurative, aggressive, bodily, or, in the words of the critic Lucy Lippard, "eccentric."
Looking beyond the familiar and canonic artworks of the 1960s, the book challenges not only how we think about these artists, but how we learn to look at the more familiar narratives of 1960s sculpture, such as Pop and Minimalism. ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300181982
SKU
V9780300181982
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About Jo Applin
Jo Applin is a lecturer in the history of art department at the University of York.
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