Описание: Essays and criticism that span Michael Ashers career, documenting site-specific installations and institutional interventions.
During a career that spanned more than forty years, from the late 1960s until his death in 2012, Michael Asher created site-specific installations and institutional interventions that examined the conditions of arts production, display, and reception. At the Art Institute of Chicago, for example, he famously relocated a bronze replica of an eighteenth-century sculpture of George Washington from the museums entrance to an interior gallery, thereby highlighting the disjunction between the statues symbolic function as a public monument and its aesthetic origins as an artwork.
Today, Asher is celebrated as one of the forerunners of institutional critique. Yet because of Ashers situation-based method of working, and his resistance to making objects that could circulate in the art market, few of his works survive in physical form. What does survive is writing by scholars and critics about his diverse practice. The essays in this volume document projects that range from Ashers environmental works and museum displacements to his research-based presentations and reflections on urban space.
Contributors
Michael Asher, Sandy Ballatore, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jennifer King, Miwon Kwon, Barbara Munger, Stephan Pascher, Birgit Pelzer, Anne Rorimer, Allan Sekula
