Allan McCollum (English)

Edited by Rhea Anastas. Texts by Rhea Anastas, Martha Buskirk, MaryJo Marks, Catherine Quéloz

ISBN 10: 3037641932 / ISBN 13: 9783037641934

Published by JRP | Ringier, 2012

About this Item

Z : 28 x 27,2, Hardcover, 144 pages, 257 color & 68 b/w illustrations - This first retrospective monograph, edited by Rhea Anastas, offers, through original contributions by MaryJo Marks, Martha Buskirk, and Catherine Quéloz, alongside extensive visual documentation of many unpublished works, a new reading on McCollum's work.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1742406701272

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Allan McCollum (English)
• Publisher: JRP | Ringier
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037641932
• ISBN 13: 9783037641934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sculpture
  • Monographie
  • Painting

About this title

Synopsis

Since the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first Surrogate Paintings (1978-82) to his Individual Works (1987-89) or recent Shapes Project(since 2005), through his famous series of Plaster Surrogates (begun in 1982), Perpetual Photos (since 1981) and Perfect Vehicles (since 1986), McCollum has revealed art's mechanisms as a status-generating economy. In the 1990s, his “art objects” were replaced by found objects belonging to a situated context and community, in an effort to explore local micro-politics and to develop projects with specific milieus. His use of multiples, of museums and display aesthetics as compositional elements, all stem from this displacement of context. Working with regional museums, heterogeneous audiences, and references going from paleontology to mineralogy, McCollum today has built a truly unique and intriguing body of work that receives its first comprehensive overview in this monograph.

Language Notes

Text: English, German