Two-way mirror power : selected writings by Dan Graham on his art / edited by Alexander Alberro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Dan, 1942-2022.

Contributor:

Alberro, Alexander.

Marian Goodman Gallery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graham, Dan, 1942-2022--Themes, motives.

Graham, Dan.

Graham, Dan, 1942-2022.

Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

xx, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]

Summary:

The internationally renowned artist Dan Graham is widely acknowledged as one of the leading members of the 1960s conceptual art movement. However, his subsequent work in photography, performance, film, video, and the fusion of art and architecture, though well known in Europe and Japan, is less well known in English-speaking countries.

In Rock My Religion (MIT Press, 1993) Graham explored mainly the work of other artists. In this collection, he articulates the rationale behind his own art. The broadly accessible essays, which include his most canonical texts, are organized both thematically and chronologically. They chart his career from conceptual art for magazine pages of the 1960s, to work integrating video, television, architecture, film, and performance of the 1970s, to his pavilion sculptures of the 1980s and 1990s. The book also features an essay by Jeff Wall and interviews with Graham that address the art historical references and theoretical principles underlying his work.

Contents:

Introduction: Partially Reflective Mirror Writing / Jeff Wall x

I. Dan Graham 1

The Artist as Producer (1978-1988) 1

II. Magazine Pages 10

My Works for Magazine Pages: "A History of Conceptual Art" (1985) 10

Legacies of Critical Practice in the 1980s: Dan Graham (1986) 18

Legacies of Critical Practice in the 1980s: Discussion (1986) 21

III. Video/Television/Architecture 38

Two Consciousness Projection(s) (1972) 38

Present Continuous Past(s) (1974) 39

Yesterday/Today (1975) 42

Notes on Yesterday/Today (1975) 42

Video Piece for Two Glass Office Buildings (1976) 46

Video Piece for Showcase Windows in a Shopping Arcade (1976) 47

Notes on Video Piece for Showcase Windows in a Shopping Arcade (1976) 48

Production/Reception (Piece for Two Cable TV Channels) (1976) 49

Essay on Video, Architecture, and Television (1979) 52

Dan Graham Interviewed by Ludger Gerdes (1991) 62

IV. Films 84

Film and Performance/Six Films, 1969-1974 (1976) 84

Cinema (1981) 94

Dan Graham Interviewed by Eric de Bruyn (1997) 96

V. Performance 121

Lax/Relax (1969) 121

Past Future/Split Attention (1972) 122

Performer/Audience/Mirror (1977) 124

Musical Performance and Stage-Set Utilizing Two-Way Mirror and Time-Delay (1983) 135

Stage-Set for Guaire (1985) 136

Theater-Cinema (1986) 137

Performance: End of the '60s (1989) 142

Dan Graham in Conversation with Brian Hatton (1992) 144

VI. Pavilion Sculptures 155

Notes on Public Space/Two Audiences (1978) 155

Alteration to a Suburban House (1978) 159

Pavilion/Sculpture for Argonne (1978-1981) 163

Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and Video Salon: Rooftop Park for Dia Center for the Arts (1991) 165

A Guide to The Children's Pavilion, a Collaborative Project by Jeff Wall and Dan Graham (1989) 167

Heart Pavilion (1991) 172

Two-Way Mirror Power (1996) 174

Two-Way Mirror Bridge and Triangular Pavilion to Existing Mill House for Domaine de Kerguehennec (1987) 176

Three Linked Cubes/Interior Design for Space for Showing Videos (1986) 178

Two-Way Mirror and Hedge Labyrinth (1989-1991) 179

Skateboard Pavilion (1989) 179

"Star of David" Glass Pavilion for Schloss Buchburg (1996) 180

Yin/Yang (1998) 182

Dan Graham Interviewed by Mike Metz (1994) 183.

Notes:

"Published in association with the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0262571307

0262071975

OCLC:

41002878