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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Building Old Cambridge: Architecture and Development
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Modern Architecture Kuwait: Essays, Arguments, Interviews
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Portals: Gates, Stiles, Windows, Bridges and other Crossings
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Italomodern: Architektur in Oberitalien 1946-1976
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The Living Tradition of Architecture
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City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning
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Chicago: Two Grids Between Lake and River
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The Tao of Architecture
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Decorated Revisited: English Architectural Style in Context, 1250-1400
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Autant De Modeles De Bon Gout: Jean-francois De Neufforge Et L’architecture Du Xviie Siecle
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Gothic Church Architecture in Lusignan Cyprus, C. 1209-c. 1373: Design and Patronage
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City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia
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Post-War Reconstruction in the Netherlands 1945-1965: The Future of a Bright and Brutal Heritage
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Breve historia de la Arquitectura / Brief History of Architecture
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Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830
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Mendicant Landscapes in Medieval Ireland
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Barcelona: Manifold Grids and the Cerda Plan
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Architectural Theory
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Monumental Transformations: Reuse, Adaptation and the Evolution of Rome’s Theaters After Antiquity
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Hangzhou: Grids from Canal to Maxi-Block
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