Since the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first Surrogate Paintings (1978-82) to his Individual Works (1987-89) or recent Shapes Project(since 2005), through his famous series of Plaster Surrogates (begun in 1982), Perpetual Photos (since 1981) and Perfect Vehicles (since 1986), McCollum has revealed art's mechanisms as a status-generating ecomy. In the 1990s, his art objects were replaced by found objects belonging to a situated context and community, in an effort to explore local micro-politics and to develop projects with specific milieus. His use of multiples, of museums and display aesthetics as compositional elements, all stem from this displacement of context. Working with regional museums, heterogeneous audiences, and references going from paleontology to mineralogy, McCollum today has built a truly unique and intriguing body of work that receives its first comprehensive overview in this mograph.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Jrp Ringier
ISBN-10
3037641932
ISBN-13
9783037641934
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108611597
Product Key Features
Author
Catherine Queloz, Mary Jo Marks, Martha Buskirk
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Individual Artists / Art Monographs
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Zurich
Edited by
Rhea Anastasas
Content Note
100 Colour, 30 B&W Illustrations
Date of Publication
10/05/2011
Country of Publication
Switzerland
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