Light years : conceptual art and the photograph, 1964-1977 / edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky ; with essays by Mark Godfrey, Robin Kelsey, Anne Rorimer, Allen Ruppersberg, Giuliano Sergio, Joshua Shannon, and Matthew S. Witkovsky.

Title & Author:

Edition:

1st edition.

Publication:

Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2011]

Description:

264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago from December 13, 2011, to March 11, 2012"--Title page verso.
"With essays by Mark Godfrey, Robin Kelsey, Anne Rorimer, Allen Ruppersberg, Giuliano Sergio, Joshua Shannon, and Matthew S. Witkovsky."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-257) and index.
The unfixed photograph / Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Across the universe / Mark Godfrey -- Uninteresting pictures: photography and fact at the end of the 1960s / Joshua Shannon -- Hazarded into the blue: John Baldessari and photography in the early 1970s / Robin Kelsey -- Rona Barrett's Hollywood / Allen Ruppersberg -- Art is the copy of art: Italian photography in and after arte povera / Giuliano Sergio -- Reconfiguring representation: mechanical reproduction and the human figure in conceptual art / Anne Rorimer.

Summary:

This book highlights the work of artists such as Vita Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Giuseppe Penone, and Ed Ruscha.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300159714 (hardcover)
0300159714 (hardcover)

Subject:

Conceptual art Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic History 20th century Exhibitions.
Art conceptuel Expositions.
Photographie artistique Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photography.
Conceptual art.
Photography, Artistic.
Fotografi historia 1900-talet.
Konceptkonst.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Witkovsky, Matthew S., 1967-
Godfrey, Mark (Mark Benjamin)
Kelsey, Robin Earle.
Rorimer, Anne.
Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944-
Sergio, Giuliano, 1974-
Shannon, Joshua, 1972-
Art Institute of Chicago.

Conceptual art and the photograph, 1964-1977

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277172
Call No.: BIB 211903
Status: Available

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