Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as
site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique, community-based art, and public art, its creators insisted
on the inseparability of the work and its context. In recent years, however, the presumption of unrepeatability and immobility encapsulated in Richard Serra's famous dictum "to remove the work
is to destroy the work" is being challenged by new models of site specificity and changes in institutional and market forces.
One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political
progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere,
the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of
late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle
Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.
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Breve historia de la Arquitectura / Brief History of Architecture
$786 -
The Idea of the Gothic Cathedral: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meanings of the Medieval Edifice in the Modern Period
$5,625 -
Portals: Gates, Stiles, Windows, Bridges and other Crossings
$490 -
Water Design: Environment and Histories
$2,798 -
The Georgian Churches of Oski and Iskhani: Architecture and Ornament
$10,800 -
Architects’ Gravesites: A Serendipitous Guide
$698 -
Architecture and Urbanism in the British Empire
$2,925 -
Escape Home
$663 -
Commonsense Architecture: A Shelter Handbook
$628 -
Mcmillan’s Galloway: A Creative Guide by an Unreliable Local
$1,048 -
Chicago: Two Grids Between Lake and River
$875 -
Hangzhou: Grids from Canal to Maxi-Block
$875 -
Escape from Democratic Kampuchea
$640 -
Lexington’s Lost Architecture
$1,348 -
The Tao of Architecture
$453 -
Architecture As Profession: The Origins of Architectural Practice in the Low Countries in the Fifteenth Century
$5,040 -
Manhattan: Rectangular Grid for Ordering an Island
$875 -
Grim Bastilles of Despair: The Poor Law Union Workhouses in Ireland
$675 -
The Temple of Ramesses II in Abydos Set: Wall Scenes / Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions
$24,750 -
Architecture in Austria in the 20th & 21st Centuries
$3,375