Adrian Piper : a synthesis of intuitions, 1965-2016 / organized by Christophe Cherix, Cornelia H. Butler, and David Platzker, with Tessa Ferreyoss ; foreward by Glenn D. Lowry, Ann Philbin, and Okwui Enwezor
Piper, Adrian 1948- Criticism and interpretation Search this
Physical description:
349 pages : color illustrations, 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2018
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Adrian Piper : A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965-2016, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 31-July 22, 2018," -- Colophon.
AAPG copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
Directors' foreword / Glenn D. Lowry, Ann Philbin, and Okwui Enwezor -- Artist's acknowledgments / Adrian Piper -- Curators' acknowledgments / Christophe Cherix, Connie Butler, David Platzker-- Who calls the tune? In and out of thr Humming Room / Christophe Cherix-- Adrian Piper Unities / David Platzker -- Wake up and get down, Adrian Piper's direct address/ Cornelia Butler -- The real thing / Adrian Piper -- Plates -- Personal chronology / Adrian Piper --Selected exhibition history, selected bibliography / compiled by Tess Ferreyros
Summary:
Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today. Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date, this catalog presents more than 280 artworks that encompass the full range of Piper's mediums: works on paper, video, multimedia installation, performance, painting, sound and photo-texts. Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being - her subversive masculine alter-ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art. Previously unpublished texts by the artist lay out significant events in her personal history and her deeply felt ideas about the relationship between viewer and art object. This publication expands our understanding of the conceptual and post-conceptual art movements and Piper's pivotal position among her peers and for later generations.
