Printed
Matter, Inc.
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Book
Signing for Anne Rorimer's
New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality
Saturday, September 14, 2002, 5 to 7 PM
Printed Matter, Inc.
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212 925 0325 tel
212 925 0464 fax
http://www.printedmatter.org
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Printed Matter is very pleased to announce a book signing for Anne
Rorimer's book, New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality,
to take
place at Printed Matter, Inc., on Saturday, September 14th, from 5 to 7
PM. Printed Matter, Inc. is located at 535 West 22nd Street, between
10th
and 11th Avenues.
By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception
and
practice of art in Europe and North America. The cultural and political
context for this change reflected the desire for social transformation
expressed in clashes with authority, such as the protests against the
Vietnam War that signaled a counterculture's defiance of established
values.
This book, a detailed account of developments centered around the
conceptual art movement, highlights the main issues underlying visually
disparate works dating from the second half of the 1960s to the end of
the
1970s. These works questioned the accepted categories of painting and
sculpture by embracing a wealth of alternative media and procedures.
Traditional two- and three-dimensional representations were supplanted
by
a variety of linguistic and photographic means, as well as installations
that brought into play the importance of presentation and site.
Through close examination of individual works and artists, Anne Rorimer
demonstrates the pervading desire to redefine the characteristics of
what
was once accepted as truly visual in order to dispel earlier assumptions
and offer other criteria for seeing. She surveys prominent names and
movements in the art of the late 1960s and 1970s to form a coherent
picture of an era of pioneering art that prefigured many of the themes
and
concerns of today.
Artists whose work is discussed in depth include Vito Acconci, Eleanor
Antin, Michael Asher, Daniel Buren, John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers,
Gilbert and George, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman,
Adrian Piper, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, and
Lawrence
Weiner among many others. Forerunners of the period such as Joseph
Beuys,
Allan Kaprow, Jasper Johns, Piero Manzoni, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank
Stella, Andy Warhol, and Fluxus are also included.
New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality is published by
Thames &
Hudson, 320 pages; clothbound; ISBN: 0500237824; $50. Signed books may
also be ordered from Printed Matter's website http://www.printedmatter.org
Printed Matter is located at 535 West 22nd Street, between 10th and 11th
Avenues.
For additional information, please contact David Platzker, Executive
Director, Printed Matter, Inc., at (212) 925-0325.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster
the
appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and
other
artists' publications.
Printed Matter has received support, in part, through grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts,
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York Arts Recovery Fund, Art for
Art¹s
Sake, The New York Community Trust, Elizabeth Firestone Graham
Foundation,
The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Heyday Foundation, The Kettering
Family Foundation, CHS Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Philip
Morris Companies Inc., Women¹s Studio Workshop, Milton & Sally Avery
Arts
Foundation, and private foundations and individuals worldwide.
Printed Matter, Inc. is not affiliated with, nor a division of, any
other
non-profit origination.
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