In the Shadow of Numbers: Charles Gaines: Selected Works from 1975-2012 - Softcover

Holte, Michael Ned

9780981895598: In the Shadow of Numbers: Charles Gaines: Selected Works from 1975-2012

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098189559X ISBN 13: 9780981895598

Publisher: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2012

In the Shadow of Numbers accompanies a survey exhibition and collects for the first time new writings and images on the influential Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines (born 1944). Gaines investigates the relationships between aesthetic experience, political beliefs and the formation of meaning. His work over the last 40 years has typically employed systems and rule-based procedures to explore how we experience and derive meaning from art. Although Gaines is often linked with Conceptual artists of the 1960s, he identifies more closely with John Cage’s examinations of indeterminacy in both composition and performance. The book includes an extensive selection of images of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video from several bodies of Gaines’s work over the last several decades.

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