The Crossing of Innumerable Paths : Essays on Art

Guy Brett

ISBN 10: 1909932531 / ISBN 13: 9781909932531

Published by Ridinghouse Nov 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Essays on art and participation from Guy Brett, veteran champion of kinetic and Latin American art Since the 1960s, the celebrated London-based art critic and curator Guy Brett (born 1942) has championed influential and experimental artists across the world through key exhibitions and publications, including In Motion (1966), Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic (2001) and exhibitions on artists such as Li Yuan-chia, David Medalla, Hélio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Georges Vantongerloo, Wols and Takis. The 14 essays in this book bring together a unique gathering of artists: Ana Mendieta, Dias & Riedweg, Javier Téllez, Jimmie Durham, Monika Weiss, Len Lye, Gianni Colombo, Liliane Lijn, Gego, Anne Bean, Aubrey Williams, Victor Grippo, Peter Kennard and Lygia Pape. Many of these artists make works which arise out of their response to the situation or the environment, a process that draws on the hundreds of ways people connect. Brett's writing has a unique tone--lucid, widely researched and free of academicism.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crossing of Innumerable Paths : Essays on Art
• Publisher: Ridinghouse Nov 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909932531
• ISBN 13: 9781909932531
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 224W x 152H x 23D millimeters 224 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 522 grams

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Essays on art and participation from Guy Brett, veteran champion of kinetic and Latin American art

Since the 1960s, the celebrated London-based art critic and curator Guy Brett (born 1942) has championed influential and experimental artists across the world through key exhibitions and publications, including In Motion (1966), Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic (2001) and exhibitions on artists such as Li Yuan-chia, David Medalla, Hélio Oiticica, Cildo Meireles, Georges Vantongerloo, Wols and Takis.

The 14 essays in this book bring together a unique gathering of artists: Ana Mendieta, Dias & Riedweg, Javier Téllez, Jimmie Durham, Monika Weiss, Len Lye, Gianni Colombo, Liliane Lijn, Gego, Anne Bean, Aubrey Williams, Victor Grippo, Peter Kennard and Lygia Pape. Many of these artists make works which arise out of their response to the situation or the environment, a process that draws on the hundreds of ways people connect.

Brett's writing has a unique tone―lucid, widely researched and free of academicism.