Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the a
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Asin: 0520220404
Format Type: Paperback
Publish Date: 2000-01-14
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Number of Pages: 113 Pages
When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated—the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the hi
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