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Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents--including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved and by Lippard, who has also provided a new preface for this edition. The result is...more
Paperback, 280 pages
Published
April 30th 1997
by University of California Press
(first published November 1972)
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I read Ursula Meyers' bk "Conceptual Art" in 1976 & this one not until over 22 yrs later. By then, of course, I'd changed alot. Even though there's an overlap between the 2 bks (after all, both writers are mostly art world figures aware of NYC artists 1st & foremost), their mode of presentation is different. Meyers' bk has short statements & pictures. Lippard's is much more of a cut & paste reference. I recommend them both. However, the difference in when I read them makes me fav...more
Astonishingly wide-ranging and accessible. This is one of the most unconventional and satisfying books about post-WW2 art I've read. The structure of the book is more like an annotated bibliography that covers the author's art viewing over a 6 year period. Not a collection of reviews so much as a collection of impressions and experiences that slowly build a definition of art-objects and aesthetics. A sort of cut-and-paste argument for moving past 'modernism'. Blow up the picture of the cover for...more
I really enjoyed Lucy Lippard's introduction/summary to the book. I admit to not reading the details in full, but rather skimming them and finding highlights here and there. Fascinating to have this collection from a very interesting time.
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i laughed for a good chunk of this book.
but how can you write a retrospective contemporary "history" of art from the late 60s without dictating a canon? (i remember my surrogate mother's friends laughing when i told them i was studying contemporary art history. i remember shivering when i found out marina abramovic was performing historic performance pieces at the gugenheim.) lucy lippard does it. lippard, like rosalind kraus, is a master of present observation, here using critique to investigat...more
but how can you write a retrospective contemporary "history" of art from the late 60s without dictating a canon? (i remember my surrogate mother's friends laughing when i told them i was studying contemporary art history. i remember shivering when i found out marina abramovic was performing historic performance pieces at the gugenheim.) lucy lippard does it. lippard, like rosalind kraus, is a master of present observation, here using critique to investigat...more
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