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BOOK LAUNCH
DAN ADLER Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983 Saturday, May 23, 2009 1-3 PM |
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Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983, Dan Adler, Afterall Books (London UK), 2009, 20.6 x 15 cm, 120 pp., 32 color illus.
softcover, $19 - Purchase Now
hardcover, $40 - Purchase Now
Art Metropole is pleased to host a launch for Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983 by Dan Adler. In this most recent publication from Afterall's important One Work series, Adler provides an illustrated study of Hanne Darboven's masterwork, the massive Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983). Please join us on Saturday May 23, 2009 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM to celebrate. Dan Adler will be present.
Hanne Darboven's Cultural History 1880-1983 (1980-83) is an overwhelming, encyclopedic installation that weaves together cultural, social and historical sources. Juxtaposing found and crafted materials, autobiographical documents and popular representations of iconic figures, it references both mundane realities and pivotal historical events.
Dan Adler explores the aesthetic complexities of the work, making comparisons with significant projects such as Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas, Jasper Johns's According to What and Gerhard Richter's Atlas. Despite Darboven's position as a founding figure of Conceptualism and her extensive exhibition history, relatively little has been written about her work. This insightful study of one of her most important works fills that gap.
Dan Adler is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at York University in Toronto. A specialist in the history of art writing and the aesthetics of installation art, he has published in the London-based journal Art History and regularly contributes reviews to Artforum and Canadian Art. An alumnus of the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, he holds a doctorate in art history from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has taught previously at Hunter College, RISD, the University of Guelph, and the New School in New York. He was formerly senior editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. In 2006 he curated the exhibition 'When Hangover Becomes Form: Rachel Harrison and Scott Lyall', held at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). He is currently working on a book that deals with contemporary sculpture in terms of aesthetic categories.
One Work is a unique series published by Afterall Books, based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Each book presents a single work of art considered in detail by a single author. The focus of the series is on contemporary art and its aim is to provoke debate about significant moments in art’s recent development. The series is distributed by the MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/afterall
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