New Art in the 60s and 70s Redefining Reality by AnneRorimer Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2004 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-28471-1, ISBN: 0-500-28471-7
"By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception and practice of art in Europe and North America. This book, the first detailed account of developments centered around the conceptual art movement, highlights the main issues underlying visually disparate works dating from the second half of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s. These works questioned the accepted categories of painting and sculpture by embracing a weal ..."
Michael Asher Kunsthalle Bern 1992 (Afterall Books / One Work) by AnneRorimer, Mark Lewis Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Afterall Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-093-8, ISBN: 1-84638-093-6
"Michael Asher (born in 1943), one of the foremost installation artists of the Conceptual art period, is a founder of site-specific practice. Considered a progenitor of institutional critique, he spearheaded the creation of artworks imbued with a self-conscious awareness of their dependence on the conditions of their exhibition context.In the work Kunsthalle Bern ..."
Michael Asher(1st Edition) "George Washington" at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1979 and 2005 by Whitney Moeller, AnneRorimer, James Rondeau, Michael Asher Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2006 by Art Institute Of Chicago ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11942-8, ISBN: 0-300-11942-9
"In a 1979 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, American conceptual artist Michael Asher--known for his site-specific†work that investigates the relationship between a piece of art and its place of display--relocated a 20th-century bronze cast of Jean-Antoine Houdonâ€TMs famous marble George Washington (1785-91) from the museumâ€TMs front steps to an interior gallery. In placing the work in a new context, Asher sought to make t ..."
Michael Asher Kunsthalle Bern 1992 (AFTERALL) by AnneRorimer, Michael Asher Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Afterall Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-092-1, ISBN: 1-84638-092-8
"Michael Asher (born in 1943), one of the foremost installation artists of the Conceptual art period, is a founder of site-specific practice. Considered a progenitor of institutional critique, he spearheaded the creation of artworks imbued with a self-conscious awareness of their dependence on the conditions of their exhibition context.In the work Kunsthalle Bern ..."
"Beloved by collectors and scholars alike, Steven Leiber’s beautiful bookseller catalogs shaped the canon of publications by artistsSteven Leiber was a pioneering San Francisco art dealer, collector and gallerist who specialized in the dematerialized art practices of the 1960s and 1970s and the ephemera and documentation spawned by conceptual art and other postwar movements. To sell this material, Leiber produced a series of 52 iconic ca ..."
New Art in the 60s and 70s(1st Edition) Redefining Reality by AnneRorimer Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-23782-3, ISBN: 0-500-23782-4
"By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception and practice of art in Europe and North America. The cultural and political context for this change reflected the desire for social transformation expressed in clashes with authority, such as the protests against the Vietnam War, that signalled a counterculture's defiance of established values. This book, the first detailed account of developments centred around the ..."
""What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed?" Georg Christoph Lichtenberg This major book commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Renaissance Society. The contents of the book were culled from all the Society's current records, its historical documents in the collection of The Archives of American Art of ..."
"A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broader culture. The thread of representation ties together the work of the 30 artists included in the book, encompassing such issues as allegory, appropriation, and commodification, the role of the artist, and the functions of authorship and originality in vesting meaning in art. Much of the w ..."
"As a new movement that arose in the 1950s and 1960s, Minimalism challenged traditional ideas about art-making and the art object. A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, offers a redefinition of Minimalism by situating it in the context of the concurrent aesthetics of modernist abstraction, pop art, and nascent ideas of conceptual art. Minimalism i ..."
"These are the first six provocative lectures on contemporary art initiated by the Dia Center. Artists discussed include Lawrence Weiner, Ketherina Fritsch, Robert Gober and Joseph Beuys."
"A major retrospective catalogue on the career of minimalist sculptor and poet Carl AndreCarl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre s creative focus shifted to writing poetry when he took a job as a freight brakeman and conductor for the Penns ..."
"Reconsidering the Object of Art examines a generally underexposed (and therefore often misunderstood) period in contemporary art and highlights artists whose practices have inspired much of the most significant art being produced today. It illustrates and discusses many crucial, ground-breaking works that have not been seen within their proper historical context, if they have been individually seen at all. By 1969 such artists as Mic ..."
"Founded in 1916 in the wake of the scandalous Armory Show, the Arts Club of Chicago aimed to present the city with new images, sounds, and ideas. Conceived as an exhibition and social space that would cultivate sophisticated conversations around a range of media, the Arts Club has maintained its core interest in presenting culture “in the making.” Today, it continues to serve as a key venue in Chicago for the presentation of work by the ..."
"Artwork by John Baldessari. Contributions by Andrea Hales. Text by Hugh Davies, Anne Rorimer."
Michael Asher(1st Edition) The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, January 21-March 4, 1990 by Birgit Pelzer, AnneRorimer, Michael Asher Paperback, 54 Pages, Published 1991 by Renaissance Society ISBN-13: 978-0-941548-20-5, ISBN: 0-941548-20-1
""The dwelling, the walls, the windows, the roof, the furniture, the pictures, the ornaments, the dress, the fence or hedge-all act constantly upon the imagination and determine its contents." -- Charles Henderson
In 1990, Asher, armed with his characteristic incisive wit and critical intellect, set out to dig through the historical foundations of the Renaissance Society's Bergman Gallery at the University of Chicago. This exhibition ma ..."
74th American Exhibition John Ahearn, Siah Armajani, Michael Asher, John Baldessari... [et al.] : The Art Institute of Chicago, 12.6. - 1.8.1982 by AnneRorimer, A. James Speyer, American Exhibition, John Ahearn Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1982 by Art Institute Of Chicago ISBN-13: 978-0-86559-050-2, ISBN: 0-86559-050-8
"Selected Bibliography: R. Pincus-Witten, "Scott Burton: Conceptual Performance
as Sculpture," Arts Magazine 51 (Sept. ... 2 (1978): 7-10; R. Pincus- Witten, "
Camp Meetin': The Furniture Pieces of Scott Burton," Arts Magazine 53 (Sept. ...
M. Auping, "Scott Burton: Individual Behavior Tableaux," /mages and Issues 1 (
Summer 1980): 46-7; John Romine, "Scott Burton: Interview," Upstart 5 (May
1981): 6-9; Developments in Recent Sculptur ..."