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Walter de Maria - Meaningless Work (Hardcover)
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Walter de Maria - Meaningless Work (Hardcover)
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As one of the most innovative artists of the last six decades,
Walter De Maria challenged art in profound ways. He is known
worldwide for his important sculptures such as Lightning Field, but
his contributions to the practices of music, drawing, photography,
and film have been largely forgotten. Featuring in-depth analysis
of many previously unknown works and correspondence, this book
offers the first major critical account of de Maria's broader range
of interests. In a 1960 score, Walter De Maria called for
"meaningless work: " art that does not "accomplish a conventional
purpose." He followed this call with a dizzying period of
experimentation. The resulting work reflected shifts in how we
understand the sites of art during an era of moon shots and road
trips, of wars that moved from jungles into living rooms via
electromagnetic waves. It helped us understand ourselves and how
race, gender, and sexuality vie for space in the social realm. By
bringing to light de Maria's lesser-known works, this book
challenges established histories and methodologies for the art of
the 1960s and '70s, while also exploring de Maria's own obsessions
with art's uttermost possibilities.
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