Out of Order, Out of Sight, Vol. I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992

by Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer-artists who have provided much of the basic and most reliable literature on modern and contemporary art. Out of Order, Out of Sight is an artistic and intellectual autobiography and an (occasionally scathing) commentary on mainstream art, art criticism, and American culture of the last twenty-five years.Piper is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and the only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s. The writings in Out of Order, Out of Sight trace the development of her thinking about her artwork and the art world, and her evolving awareness of herself as a creative, racial, and gendered subject situated in an often limiting and always absurd cultural and social context.

Genres: Art, Essays

Hardcover

First published November 15, 1996

About the author

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is a first-generation Conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City. Since 2005 she has lived and worked in Berlin, where she runs the APRA Foundation Berlin and edits The Berlin Journal of Philosophy.

Reviews

[Tentatively, Convenience]

I spent 17 days writing a review of this only to have my computer crash shortly thereafter. I managed to save the review. It's quite long so I've put it in the Writing section on my profile in 4 parts:

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...

Ordinarily, I'd put an abridged review here but due to limited computer access this is what you get.

[Valeria]

“Notes on Funk I,” and “Notes on Funk II.”

[Ariel]

If you need a source for a paper on Adrian Piper, you just stuck gold.

[Erin]

I'll come back to this some other time. Page 94