A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture) - Softcover

Rosalind E. Krauss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500282072 ISBN 13: 9780500282076

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2000

Synopsis

Exploring the nature of the aesthetic medium has been at the heart of much of modern art. For exponents of high modernism, the essence of each medium lay inherently in its own particular material properties. Accordingly, the import of painting was its "flatness," as exemplified by the monochrome canvas. But some artists rejected this description as inadequate. Citing the examples of film, television, and video, they understood and articulated the medium as a complex structure of technical supports and layered conventions distinct from physical properties. Here, Rosalind Krauss positions the work of Marcel Broodthaers within this alternative narrative. Referring to the Belgian artist's films, books, graphic design, and museum "fictions," she presents Broodthaers as standing at, and thus standing for, the "complex" of the self-differing medium.

About this title

About the Author:

Rosalind Krauss is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University.

Review:

A brilliant new chapter in her continuing investigation of medium specificity. -- Artforum, Carlos Basualdo, December 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0500282072
• ISBN 13: 9780500282076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64