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Destefashioncollection: Atlas (Hardcover)
M/M (Paris); Contributions by Germano Celant, Dennis Freedman, Dakis Joannou, Mark Wasiuta
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Dan Graham, one of America's most important contemporary artists,
is best known today for his sculptural works and installations. His
photographic works are generally not so well known, despite the
fact that he first became famous for his photographic series, Homes
for America, pictures of typical American suburbia in New Jersey.
To this day the theme of architecture and its surfaces represents
an extremely important facet of his work, as does the question of
what role it plays in postmodern society and in the context of
everyday culture. This publication presents new photographs by Dan
Graham, taken in the context of a study trip with the architecture
faculty of Columbia University, together with a selection of
original photographs from the Homes for America series. The new
images exhibit stark similarities to the old pictures, because they
were taken in the same locations, in the same deserts of suburban
streets and housing that Graham had photographed in the 1960s. This
creates a fascinating reference system of repetitions and
differences, in terms of both the temporal and the spatial, that
asks questions of the viewer about architecture, public space, and
their function in society.
A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World
War II on how we understand the art that survived it By the end of
World War II an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million
books had been seized from their owners by Nazi forces; many were
destroyed. The artworks and cultural artifacts that survived have
traumatic, layered histories. This book traces the biographies of
these objects-including paintings, sculpture, and Judaica-their
rescue in the aftermath of the war, and their afterlives in museums
and private collections and in our cultural understanding. In
examining how this history affects the way we view these works,
scholars discuss the moral and aesthetic implications of
maintaining the association between the works and their place
within the brutality of the Holocaust-or, conversely, the
implications of ignoring this history. Afterlives offers a
thought-provoking investigation of the unique ability of art and
artifacts to bear witness to historical events. With rarely seen
archival photographs and with contributions by the contemporary
artists Maria Eichhorn, Hadar Gad, Dor Guez, and Lisa Oppenheim,
this catalogue illuminates the study of a difficult and
still-urgent subject, with many parallels to today's crises of art
in war. Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York
Exhibition Schedule: Jewish Museum, New York (Opens August 2021)
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