When these essays first appeared in "Artforum" in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated - the three issues of "Artforum" in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.
- 揭示白盒子画廊的意识形态本质
- 分析空间如何规训观众观看行为
- 探讨语境即内容的艺术生产机制
- 艺术史与当代艺术研究者
- 策展人及画廊从业者
- 对艺术空间理论感兴趣的读者
- 需具备现当代艺术史基础
- 注意作者犀利批判的写作风格
- 结合具体展览案例理解理论
- 观点辛辣且极具启发性
- 对不熟悉艺术史者较不友好
- 是理解现代美术馆机制的经典
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "The white cube was a transitional device that attempted to bleach out the past and at the same time control the future by appealing to supposedly transcendental modes of presence and power. But the problem with transcendental principles is that by definition they speak of another world, not this one"
- "A Fable of Horizontal and Vertical -Modernism - The Properties of the Ideal Gallery - The Salon - The Easel Picture - The Frame as Editor - Photography - Impressionism - The Myth of the Picture Plane - Matisse - Hanging - The Picture Plane as Simile -？The Wall As Battleground and Art The Installatio"
- "In classical modernist galleries, as in churches, one does not speak in a normal voice; one does not laugh, eat, drink, lie down, or sleep; one does not get ill, go mad, sing, dance, or make love. The white cube was a transitional device that attempted to bleach out the past and at the same time con"
- "Art exists in a kind of eternity of display... This eternity gives the gallery a limbolike status; one has to have died already to be there... The space offers the thought that while eyes and minds are welcome, space-occupying bodies are not."
- "...The stability of the frame is a neccesary as an oxygen tank is to a diver... Where it curtails or elides subject matter, it does so in a way that strenghtens the edge... Once you know that a patch of landscape represents a decision to exclude everything around it, you are faintly aware of the spa"
Ginseng and Borderland
Secure the Soul
We are Amphibians
Go Nation
Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965
The Nature of the Beasts