Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art - Hardcover

Graham, Dan

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9780262071970: Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art

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ISBN 10: 0262071975 ISBN 13: 9780262071970

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1999

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The internationally renowned artist Dan Graham is widely acknowledged as one of the leading members of the 1960s conceptual art movement. However, his subsequent work in photography, performance, film, video and the fusion of art and architecture, though well known in Europe and Japan, is less well known in English-speaking countries. In "Rock My Religion" (1993) Graham explored mainly the work of other artists. In this collection, he articulates the rationale behind his own art. The broadly accessible essays, which include his most canonical text, are organized both thematically and chronologically. They chart his career from conceptual art for magazine pages of the 1960s, to work integrating video, television, architecture, film and performance of the 1970s, to his pavilion sculptures of the 1980s and 1990s. The book also features an essay by Jeff Wall and interviews with Graham that address the art historical references and theoretical principles underlying his work.

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About the Author:

Alexander Alberro is Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College. He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2000), and coeditor (with Blake Stimson) of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (2000), both published by the MIT Press.

Review:

Dan Graham's critical stance is refreshing, rigorous, original, and essential.

(David Ross, Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)

Like his artwork, Graham's writings have become site-specificmonuments, and their publication here provides a textual mini-mall in which we are invited to peruse the predicament of our culture.

(Mary Kelly, Professor and Chair of Art, University of California, Los Angeles)

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