Michael Asher
Michael Asher
American conceptual artist
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In 1990, Asher, armed with his characteristic incisive wit and critical intellect, set out to dig through the historical foundations of the Renaissance Society’s Bergman Gallery at the University of Chicago. With detailed and thorough reproductions of the installation alongside scholarly essays by Birgit Pelzer and Anne Rorimer, this publication offers an intensive analysis of Asher’s project for the Renaissance Society.
Call Number: N6537.A83 A4 1990ISBN: 0941548201Publication Date: 1991-01-01
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In the work Kunsthalle Bern 1992, Asher removed the radiators from all the museum's exhibition spaces and reassembled them in its entryway gallery. Metal pipes connected the relocated radiators to their original sockets; these tubular conduits, coursing in a linear fashion along the Kunsthalle's walls, kept the steam heat flowing and endowed the installation with directional lines of force. This "displacement of givens" offers a perfect example of site-specific practice, one that took the gallery space and the institution itself as its subject. In this detailed examination of Kunsthalle Bern 1992, Anne Rorimer considers the work in the context of Asher's ongoing desire to fuse art with the material, economic, and social conditions of institutional presentation.
Call Number: N6537.A8 R675 2012ISBN: 9781846380921Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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Essays and criticism that span Michael Asher's career, documenting site-specific installations and institutional interventions.
Call Number: N6537.A8 M53 2016ISBN: 9780262528795Publication Date: 2016-01-29
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In a 1979 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, American conceptual artist Michael Asher--known for his site-specific work that investigates the relationship between a piece of art and its place of display--relocated a 20th-century bronze cast of Jean-Antoine Houdon's famous marble George Washington (1785-91) from the museum's front steps to an interior gallery. In placing the work in a new context, Asher sought to make the viewer aware of usually invisible institutional practices--the categorization of works of art, methods of installation, and the criteria for assigning aesthetic value.
Call Number: N6537.A83 A4 2006ISBN: 0300119429Publication Date: 2006-09-18
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In "Situation Aesthetics," Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members).
Call Number: N6537.A8 P46 2010ISBN: 9780262013680Publication Date: 2010-03-05
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Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher-including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics-most published here for the first time.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780262042673Publication Date: 2019-10-15
