Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968

by James Timothy Voorhies

Book Overview

The rise of the exhibition as critical form and artistic medium, from Robert Smithson's antimodernist non-sites in 1968 to today's institutional gravitation toward the participatory.

In 1968, Robert Smithson reacted to Michael Fried's influential essay "Art and Objecthood" with a series of works called non-sites. While Fried described the spectator's connection with a work of art as a momentary visual engagement, Smithson's non-sites asked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262035529
• ISBN13: 9780262035521
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher