Synopsis
This remarkably detailed and lavishly illustrated book is an absolutely essential reference to the work and thought of the American artist Dan Graham. As both an artist and a theoretician and critic of art and architecture, Graham's work in the media of video, installation, and sculpture rigorously explore the artistic ramifications of human imposition on the natural and built environment, often situating itself at the intersection of art and architecture. This volume includes extensive notes by Graham describing each project, its installation, and its intention. Along with two interviews with the artist, it provides unprecedented insight into his ideas and their expression.
About the Author
Birgit Pelzer (Survey) is a widely-respected curator and critic who has been active since the late 1960s. Her publications include Gerhard Richter 100 Paintings (1998) and Michael Asher (1991) Her important writings on Conceptual art have been anthologized in Rewriting Conceptual Art (1999), ed.s Michael Newman and Jon Bird. Mark Francis (Interview) is a curator and critic, currently the director of the fig-1 project in London. He was previously the founding director and chief curator of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and has been a curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. He has organized exhibitions and written on Dan Graham's work since 1978. Beatriz Columina (Focus), one of the world's best known and most innovative architectural theorists, is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (1994), Sexuality and Space (editor, 1992), and Architecture Production (editor, 1988). She is currently working on a book on the post-war American house and the relationships between domesticity and war. For his Artist's Choice Graham has selected an extract from the science fiction novel Ubik by American Philip K. Dick (1928-82), widely held to be one of the greatest science fiction novelists of the twentieth century. Ubik is considered one of his finest novels, where philosophical and existential questions of human life and ethics are played out by half-human, half-robotic characters. Dan Graham is well known for his prolific writings, which he views as part of his art practice. Highly influential, Graham's essays have been described by American critic Donald Kuspit as 'milestones in the study of the postmodern fusion of everyday culture and esoteric art into academic spectacle.' Graham was born in Urbana, Illinois in 1942 and lives and works in New York.
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