Title & Author:

Open systems : rethinking art c.1970 / contributions by Johanna Burton, Mark Godfrey, Boris Groys ; edited by Donna De Salvo.

Publication:

London : Tate Pub., 2005.

Description:

183 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Open systems: rethinking art c.1970, Tate Modern, London. 1 June - 29 August 2005."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186) and index.
Where we begin : opening the system, c.1970 / Donna De Salvo -- From box to street and back again : an inadequate descriptive system for the seventies / Mark Godfrey -- The mimesis of thinking / Boris Groys -- Mystics rather than rationalists / Johanna Burton -- PLATES -- The serial attitude / Mel Bochner -- Systems esthetics / Jack Burnham -- Intermedia / Dick Higgins -- Specific objects / Donald Judd -- The response to crisis / Thomas Kuhn -- Paragraphs on conceptual art (1967) / Sol LeWitt -- Environmental art, postmodern art : Hélio Oiticica / Mário Pedrosa.
Contributions by Johanna Burton, Mark Godfrey and Boris Groys.
Bibliography compiled by Patricia Lee and Michele Smith.

Summary:

"Open Systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Connecting with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade, artists began to make their work more responsive to the world around them. Open Systems offers a way into this complex and highly diverse period." "Building on the principles of 1960s avant-garde movements such as Fluxus, Minimalism and Neo-concretism, artists moved from focusing on the object to wide-ranging experiments in dance, performance and, most notable, film and video. One widely shared characteristic of their work was their adoption of experimental aesthetic 'systems' to generate their art - in particular in relation to the cube - a development that was to have a profound influence on artists for decades to come." "Featuring the works of prominent international artists working in Britain, Europe, South America and the United States, Open Systems reproduces a wide range of sculpture, painting, film, video, and photography. The book includes newly commissioned essays by Johanna Burton, Donna De Salvo, Mark Godfrey, and Boris Groys, as well as a selection of seminal texts from the period."--Jacket.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1854375652 (pbk.)
9781854375650 (pbk.)

Subject:

Conceptual art Exhibitions.
Minimal art Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art conceptuel Expositions.
Art minimal Expositions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art, Modern
Conceptual art
Minimal art
Beeldende kunsten.
Nineteen seventies.
Art conceptuel.
Art de performance.
Minimalisme.
1960-1969.
1970-1979.
Art 1970-1980.
Installations (visual works) 1970-1980.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition Publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

De Salvo, Donna M.
Burton, Johanna.
Godfrey, Mark (Mark Benjamin)
Groĭs, Boris.
Tate Modern (Gallery)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240550
Call No.: N6494.I56 O9 2005
Status: Available