Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Zuckerman, Heidi
2. Aspen Art Museum (Aspen, Colo.)

Description

1. 103 p. : ill.; 32 cm.

Summary

1. This volume attempts to demonstrate that the notion that visual recognition alone is insufficient to determine an object's materiality, forcing a re-examination of the materials used in making art. In this work, published concurrently with an exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, the question of materiality is recontextualized -- through essays by Aspen Art Museum Director Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson and Peter Eeley, Visual Arts Curator of the Walker Art Museum -- as more than a mere struggle between content and form. Drawing on unconventional means of transformation, such as alchemy and magic, as a way to examine the metaphysical changes that occur when materials are used to conceptualize complex ideas.

Subject

1. 1900-2099
2. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions
3. Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs

Contents

1. Pay attention mother fuckers / Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson -- After secrecy / Peter Eleey -- Plates -- Selected excerpts from a conversation between Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Tim Rollins -- Three poems / Jeremy Sigler -- Now i see it ... / George Stranahan -- Etudes / Paul Valery -- Artist biographies -- Exhibition checklist -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Board of trustees and national council -- List of illustrations -- Museum staff.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Issued in connection with an exhibition held Dec. 18, 2008-Feb. 1, 2009, Aspen Art Museum.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 11).

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain