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Dan Graham (born 1942, lives in New York), one of today’s most influential conceptual artists, questioned the autonomy of the artwork early on and re-flected on the role of popular culture in his works. The artistic activities devel-oped by Graham since the mid nineteen-sixties range from newspaper arti-cles, pages of newspapers and newspaper announcements to photographs, performances, audiotape, film and video installations as well as television pro-grammes, hybrid sculptures and architecture. Graham additionally authored numerous articles dealing with cultural phenomena, wrote video essays, drafted an opera and developed the conception of a museum for an artist (Gordon Matta-Clark) who left no lasting works behind. Gregor Stemmrich traces the development of Graham’s art and shows how Graham counteracts a culturally predominating use of media. -Continuation volume of the series with a new cover design -Exclusive collectors’ books
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Dan Graham, Gregor Stemmrich
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- Dan Graham
- Subtitle
- Collector's Choice vol. 8
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gregor Stemmrich
- Publisher
- DuMont
- Publisher
- 2008
- ISBN10
- 3832191119
- ISBN13
- 9783832191115
- Series
- Collector's choice
- Description
- Dan Graham (born 1942, lives in New York), one of today’s most influential conceptual artists, questioned the autonomy of the artwork early on and re-flected on the role of popular culture in his works. The artistic activities devel-oped by Graham since the mid nineteen-sixties range from newspaper arti-cles, pages of newspapers and newspaper announcements to photographs, performances, audiotape, film and video installations as well as television pro-grammes, hybrid sculptures and architecture. Graham additionally authored numerous articles dealing with cultural phenomena, wrote video essays, drafted an opera and developed the conception of a museum for an artist (Gordon Matta-Clark) who left no lasting works behind. Gregor Stemmrich traces the development of Graham’s art and shows how Graham counteracts a culturally predominating use of media. -Continuation volume of the series with a new cover design -Exclusive collectors’ books