One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

by Miwon Kwon

Book Overview

A critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s.

Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026261202X
• ISBN13: 9780262612029
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher