Introducing Tony Conrad : a retrospective / edited by Cathleen Chaffee ; contributions by Rachel Adams [and sixteen others] ; additional texts and interviews by Tony Conrad [and seven others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conrad, Tony, artist, author, interviewee.

Adams, Rachel, 1982- author.

Eberstadt, Frederick, author.

Eberstadt, Isabel, author.

Sanders, Jay, 1975- author.

Diederichsen, Diedrich, author.

Joseph, Branden Wayne, author.

Grubbs, David, 1967- author.

Ryan, Tina Rivers, author.

Ochmanek, Annie, author.

DeJong, Constance, author.

Lampert, Andrew, author.

Alemani, Vera, author.

Müller, Christopher (Art gallery director), author.

Kelley, Mike, author.

Oursler, Tony, author.

Sarlin, Paige, author.

Steffan, Cathleen, author.

Elms, Anthony, author.

Huldisch, Henriette, author.

Williams, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Chaffee, Cathleen, editor, author.

Mussman, Toby, interviewer.

Long, Gareth, 1979- interviewer.

Hubby, Tyler, interviewer.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Koenig Books (Firm), publisher.

University of Buffalo, host institution.

MIT List Visual Arts Center, host institution.

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, host institution.

University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art, host institution.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conrad, Tony.

Male artists.

Art, American.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Video art.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

New York (State).

Conrad, Tony--Exhibitions.

Conrad, Tony--Criticism and interpretation.

Conrad, Tony--Themes, motives.

Conrad, Tony--Interviews.

Video art--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.

Video art--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, American--New York (State)--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, American--New York (State)--21st century--Exhibitions.

Male artists--New York (State)--20th century--Exhibitions.

Male artists--New York (State)--21st century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Essays.

Interviews.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

353 pages, 14 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

New York, New York : Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Manufacture:

Oberhausen, Germany : Printmanagement Plitt GmbH.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, New York : Albright-Knox Art Gallery ; London, England : Koenig Books, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Throughout his six-decade career, Tony Conrad (American, 1940-2016) forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements, from Fluxus and minimalism to the Pictures Generation and beyond. Best known for his pioneering contributions to minimal music and structural film in the 1960s, he also helped define a vast range of culture, including rock music and public television. This catalogue accompanies the first museum survey dedicated to works Conrad presented in museum and gallery settings, part of an ongoing reappraisal of his creative achievement. Inspired by the spoken, written, and performed introductions he regularly used to help frame screenings and presentations of his works, it reveals an unparalleled innovator in painting, sculpture, film, video, performance, and installation, tenaciously working to undermine the boundaries between artistic categories. Offering an in-depth introduction to Conrad's life and career, this richly illustrated volume highlights selected works dated from 1966 to 2016, including his early films; the 'Yellow Movies' and related projects in which he pickled, deep-fried, and otherwise treated film as a sculptural and performative material; his improvised sound sculptures, the 'Invented Acoustical Tools'' his ambitious films about power relations in the army and in prisons; his wide-ranging video art practice; and his many sculptures and installations that evoke and critique what he perceived as an emerging culture of surveillance, control, and containment. Nearly twenty writings by Conrade himself, some previously unpublished, are presented alongside new contributions by Rachel Adams, Vera Alemani, Cathleen Chaffee, Constance DeJong, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, David Grubbs, Henriette Huldisch, Branden W. Joseph, Andrew Lampert, Christopher Müller, Annie Ochmanek, Tony Oursler, Tina Rivers Ryan, Jay Sanders, Paige Sarlin, and Christopher Williams, and additional texts and interviews by Frederick Eberstadt, Isabel Eberstadt, Tyler Hubby, Mike Kelley, Gareth Long, Toby Mussman, and Cathleen Steffan. An extensive back matter section includes a chronology of Conrad's life and selected exhibition history, filmography, videography, and bibliography." --publisher's description.

Contents:

Introducing Tony Conrad / Cathleen Chaffee

Underground man : The social dropout / Frederick Eberstadt and Isabel Eberstadt (1967)

Wayfinding / Jay Sanders

The ultimate precondition (laughing at it) / Diedrich Diederichsen

Perverse medium specificity : Tony Conrad in the 1990s, 1960s, and now / Branden W. Joseph and David Grubbs

Unscripted pedagogy / Rachel Adams

Celluloid computing : Tony Conrad's early films and the digital imaginary / Tina Rivers Ryan

An interview with Tonu Conrad / Toby Mussman (1966, excerpts)

Retrospect I / Tonu Conrad (2008)

TCTV / Annie Ochmanek

Releasing Bryant Park Moratorium Rally on the table of the elements / Tony Conrad (2005)

On Loose Connection / Constance DeJong

Some production notes on Loose Connection as a definitional extension of documentary film / Tony Conrad (1973, excerpts)

Now playing / Cathleen Chaffee

Progress / Tony Conrad (2003, excerpt one)

Yellow Movies / Tony Conrad (2005)

Mal appétit / Andrew Lampert

Sukiyaki / Tony Conrad (1973)

Progress / Tony Conrad (2003, excerpt two)

Is this Penny Ante or a high stakes game? An interventionist approach to experimental filmmaking / Tony Conrad (2004)

Tony Conrad's Paul Sharits : Prescription and collapsed temporality / Vera Alemani

Paul Sharits : Prescription and collapsed temporality / Tony Conrad (2015)

Hail the fallen

-Beholden to victory / Christopher Müller

Beholden to victory / Mike Kelley (2004)

Introduction to Squeaky Wheel's AxleGrease broadcast of Beholden to Victory / Tony Conrad (1988)

Introduction: Beholden to victory / Tony Conrad (1983)

After Beholden to victory / Tony Conrad (ca. 2008, excerpts)

Women in prison / Tony Oursler

WiP at Kunsthalle Wien: A conversation with Tony Conrad / Gareth Long (2014, excerpts)

In person, on screen, in context, on tape / Paige Sarlin

A propaedeutic for active viewing / Tony Conrad (1987)

Network society and personal pluralism / Tony Conrad (1987)

The outrageous public access mess : Founding the first amendment network for public access television / Tony Conrad (1990)

Studio of the streets / Tony Conrad and Cathleen Steffan (ca. 1991)

A stroll by the shore / Anthony Elms

Invented acoustical tools / Tony Conrad (2012)

Tony Conrad's (not) late paintings / Henriette Huldisch

PAINTING: Two degrees of separation / Tony Conrad (2014)

Geriatric realism / Christopher Williams

A conversation with Tony Conrad / Tyler Hubby (2015, excerpt)

Framing forms / Tony Conrad (2016).

Notes:

Catalog of exhibitions held at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, March 3-May 27, 2018; University at Buffalo Art Gallery at the Center for the Arts, February 8-May 26, 2018; MIT List Visual Arts Center, October 18, 2018-January 6, 2019; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, October 18-December 30, 2018; Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, February 1-August 11, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-346).

"Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective" : March 3-May 27, 2018, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, United States.

"Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective" : February 8-May 26, 2018, the University of Buffalo Art Gallery at the Center for the Arts, Buffalo, New York, United States.

"Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective" : October 18, 2018-January 6, 2019, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

"Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective" : October 18-December 30, 2018, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

"Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective" : February 1-August 11, 2019, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

ISBN:

9783960983361

3960983360

OCLC:

1085145069

Publisher Number:

99980705715