Public Space, Two Audiences : Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection

Diederichsen, Diedrich; Borja-Villel, Manuel; Herbert, Anton; Muller, Hans-Joachim; Pakesch, Peter; Rorimer, Anne

ISBN 10: 8489771200 / ISBN 13: 9788489771208

Published by Walther Konig, Cologne, 2006

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Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona ; Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Barcelona Spain, Graz, Austria [Published Date: 2006]. Hardcover, 425 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. White illustrated Paper over Boards have light bumping and scuffing to edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing to edges. Light overall scuffing and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. [From page opposite title page] This book is published by Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain and Kunsthaus Graz, Austria on the occasion of two exhibitions: one at the Macba Barcelona from February - April 2006, and the other at the Kunsthaus Graz in June - September 2006. Each exhibition is made with its own selection of works and documents from the Herbert Collection by Manuel Borja-Villel in Barcelona and Peter Pakesch in Graz. The book follows two earlier publications on the Herbert Collection with their own title and subtitle: L'Architecte est absent. Repertoire (Eindhoven, 1984) and Many Colored Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Matty Colored Objects. Programme (Luxembourg, 2000). The publication Public Space/Two Audiences. Inventaire gives a large overview of works and documents of the Herbert Collection. As in each 'Inventory', it is incomplete. The book is made in the context of a permanent growing documentation, starting with Repertoire, through Programme till this Inventaire. Contents include: Artistic Theories of Public Space, A Prehistory of Interactivity by Diedrich Diederichsen; Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Conceptual Art: Reflections on the Herbert Collection by Anne Rorimer; The Annick and Anton Herbert Collection by Hans-Joachim Muller; On Collecting: Private and Public, A Round Table with Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Anton Herbert, Hans-Joachim Muller, and Peter Pakesch; Works and Documents from the Collection featuring Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Art & Language, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Andre Cadere, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Luciano Fabro, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Thomas Schutte, Robert Smithson, Niele Toroni, Jan Vercruysse, Didier Vermeiren, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, and Ian Wilson.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Public Space, Two Audiences : Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection
• Publisher: Walther Konig, Cologne
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8489771200
• ISBN 13: 9788489771208
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 45 ounces

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Synopsis

This beautiful, hefty catalogue of the most important works from one of the world's finest collections of Minimal, Arte Povera and Conceptual art includes work by Carl Andre, John Baldessari, Marcel Broedthaers, Hanne Darboven, Gilbert & George, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson and Lawrence Weiner, among others. In her essay, the esteemed independent curator and art historian Anne Rorimer writes, "Such is the breadth and depth of the Herbert Collection that an entire book on the art of the 1960s and 1970s could be written based on the many exemplary works included in it. As a group, works in the collection point to the revolutionary activity occurring at a time when long-held conventions associated with painting and sculpture were being questioned or overturned in the interest of aesthetic renewal. Each work, separately, speaks volumes about innovations in art production labeled by terms such as Minimal art, Arte Povera or Conceptual art. These terms, although by no means carved in stone, identify shared methods and goals pursued by artists on both sides of the Atlantic during the years leading up to and extending beyond 1968.