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Barry Le Va - The Aesthetic Aftermath (Paperback)
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Barry Le Va - The Aesthetic Aftermath (Paperback)
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Of the conceptual artists who began their careers in the 1960s and
1970s-Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Mel Bochner
among them-Barry Le Va may be the most elusive. As this first study
of his work reveals, his rigorously planned art was instigated to
mask its creator's intentions and methods, presenting itself as an
"aftermath" of modernism's claim to permanency and civil society's
preferred mode of monumentalism. For Michael Maizels, Le Va's work
constitutes a particularly productive subject of inquiry because it
clearly articulates the interconnection between the avant-garde's
distrust of autonomous art objects, two decades of social unrest,
the emergence of information theory, and lingering notions of
scientific objectivity. Barry Le Va: The Aesthetic Aftermath
explores how Le Va used such materials as shattered glass, spent
bullets, sound recordings, scattered flour, and meat cleavers
embedded in a floor to challenge the interlocking assumptions
behind blind faith in lasting beauty, just government, and
perfectible knowledge. Taking inspiration from popular crime novels
as well as contemporary art theory, Le Va charged his viewers to
attempt, like detectives at a crime scene, to decipher an order
underlying the apparent chaos. Le Va's installations were designed
to erode not simply the presumed autonomy of the art object but
also the economic and political authority of the art establishment.
In his concluding chapter, Maizels looks at the more fixed work of
the past two decades in which Le Va turned to architectural themes
and cast concrete to probe the limits of dynamism and the idea of
permanence.
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