Metaphorical materialism : art in New York in the late 1960s / Dominic Rahtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rahtz, Dominic, author.

Series:

Studies in Art and Materiality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Art, American.

Andre, Carl, 1935-2024--Criticism and interpretation.

Andre, Carl.

Smithson, Robert--Criticism and interpretation.

Smithson, Robert.

Serra, Richard, 1938-2024--Criticism and interpretation.

Serra, Richard.

Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970--Criticism and interpretation.

Hesse, Eva.

Weiner, Lawrence--Criticism and interpretation.

Weiner, Lawrence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"In Metaphorical Materialism: Art in New York in the Late 1960s, Dominic Rahtz returns to a period when the materiality of art was thematized and theorized according to varying conceptions of matter and form, and consciously related to materialisms held as wider philosophical and political positions and attitudes. The book consists of a volume of essays on the relationships between materiality and materialism, informed by definitions of labour, process, corporeality, and language, in the work of Carl Andre, Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Lawrence Weiner"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Figures

Introduction: Materiality as a Material

1 Metaphorical Materialism

2 Materiality from the Side of Art

3 Materiality from the Side of Materialism

Chapter 1 Carl Andre's Materialism

1 The 'Materialism' of the Rain

2 A Simple Array Dictated by a Property of the First Particle

3 Labour is the Living Fire That Shapes the Pattern

4 The Innocence of Matter

Chapter 2 Cinders: Robert Smithson

1 'Cinders'

2 The Fringes ... the Cold Walks ...

3 Materialism Inverted

4 Meaningless Reverberations

Chapter 3 Process and Reality in Richard Serra's Early Work

1 Forms of Process

2 Anti Form

3 In-formation

4 Process within and without the Labour Process

Chapter 4 Eva Hesse, Feeling and Form

1 Feeling and Form

2 A Closed Material Individuality

3 Everything is Process

4 Matter That Bodies

Chapter 5 Statement and Action in Lawrence Weiner's Conceptual Art

1 Statements and Actions

2 Statement and Action in Language

3 The Politics of Reference

Conclusion

1 Materials in Particular and Materiality in General

2 Form and Material

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46022-5

OCLC:

1240827200