This exhibition catalogue brings together an international group of 12 younger artists whose work consciously blurs the boundaries between art, architecture and design, autonomous sculpture and functional object, environmental installation and interior decor. The work presented draws upon sources in high art, including Minimalism and Formalism, as well as industrial design from the 1930s-1960s, and architecture from the 1920s-1960s. While the 'look' of much of this art may have its initial impetus in the clean-lined rationality of Bauhaus design, it is then rejected with unexpected, idiosyncratic, and improvisatory elements. The artists include Kevin Appel, Angela Bulloch, Clay Ketter, Roy McMakin, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Joe Scanlan, Joep van Lieshout, Pae White, and Andrea Zittel. Guest curator Steven Beyer is the assistant artistic director of the Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia. Mark Robins combines curatorial projects, teaching, and installation art. He was curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts from 1993-1999, where he worked on the seminal Fabrications exhibitions. Book has minor shelf wear. Front cover has smuge mark on it.

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Title

Against Design

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art March 2000

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0884540944

ISBN 13

9780884540946

Binding

Trade Paperback

Condition

Used - Good

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Essays by Steven Beyer, Mark Robins.

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