Against Reason, Volume 1: Tony Smith, Sculpture, and Other Modernisms

Voorhies, James

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-08
  • 售價: $1,090
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,036
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 216
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 026254914X
  • ISBN-13: 9780262549141
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商品描述

Original essays and visual art that reveal the depth and complexity of the sculpture of American modernist Tony Smith, placing his multifaceted practice in dialogue with contemporary voices.

Against Reason, Volume 1 is published alongside the Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné Sculpture, itself the first of two volumes--the other focusing on architecture--documenting the artist's career. This book reveals the depth and complexity of Smith's oeuvre in sculpture while positioning its transdisciplinary nature in dialogue with contemporary practitioners. Commissioned essays by art historians and curators and visual projects by artists offer renewed perspectives on a variety of cultural systems, exploring the ongoing vitality of Smith's work. Their contributions reflect upon the modernist era in which Smith's work was produced to think through ingrained ideologies, revealing other, parallel modernisms and histories.

Against Reason delves deeply into work by Smith that has not been previously parsed or discussed within art historical contexts. The book shuttles among visual art projects and texts, from Mario Gooden's essay exploring Smith's refusal to occupy the known quantities assigned to "artist" and "architect," to Saim Demircan's study of the re-presentation of Smith's work through its photo-documentation in the mainstream press, to Judith Barry's transformation of Smith's sculpture into the form of a flipbook and centerpiece "pop-up." Jenni Sorkin explores the influence of Smith's sculpture practice on his daughter Kiki Smith, while Yann Chateigné Tytelman casts a wider net to examine correspondences between Smith and the contemporary artists Joachim Koester, Mai-Thu Perret, and Cauleen Smith. Tom Burr closes the volume with a photo-collage project reflective of his ongoing engagement with Tony Smith's oeuvre.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

原創的散文和視覺藝術揭示了美國現代主義雕塑家Tony Smith作品的深度與複雜性,並將他的多面向實踐與當代聲音進行對話。

《Against Reason, Volume 1》與《Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné Sculpture》一同出版,後者是兩卷中的第一卷——另一卷專注於建築——記錄了這位藝術家的職業生涯。本書揭示了Smith在雕塑方面的作品深度與複雜性,同時將其跨學科的特性與當代實踐者進行對話。由藝術史學家和策展人撰寫的委託散文,以及藝術家們的視覺項目,提供了對各種文化系統的新視角,探索了Smith作品的持續活力。他們的貢獻反思了Smith作品產出的現代主義時代,以思考根深蒂固的意識形態,揭示其他平行的現代主義和歷史。

《Against Reason》深入探討了Smith的作品,這些作品在藝術史的背景下尚未被解析或討論。本書在視覺藝術項目和文本之間穿梭,從Mario Gooden的散文探討Smith拒絕被賦予的「藝術家」和「建築師」的已知身份,到Saim Demircan研究Smith作品在主流媒體中的照片紀錄重現,再到Judith Barry將Smith的雕塑轉化為翻頁書和中心「彈出式」的形式。Jenni Sorkin探討了Smith的雕塑實踐對其女兒Kiki Smith的影響,而Yann Chateigné Tytelman則擴大範圍,檢視Smith與當代藝術家Joachim Koester、Mai-Thu Perret和Cauleen Smith之間的相互關聯。Tom Burr以一個反映他持續參與Tony Smith作品的照片拼貼項目結束了這一卷。

作者簡介

James Voorhies is a curator and historian of modern and contemporary art. He is the author of Postsensual Aesthetics and Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968 (both MIT Press), and has taught at Bennington College and Harvard University.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

詹姆斯·沃里斯(James Voorhies)是現代與當代藝術的策展人和歷史學家。他是《後感官美學》(Postsensual Aesthetics)和《超越物體性:自1968年以來的展覽作為批判形式》(Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968)(均由麻省理工學院出版社出版)的作者,並曾在本寧頓學院和哈佛大學任教。