Announcing the Specific Object 2012 Publication of the Year Award Given to Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin for Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art
Specific Object is pleased to announce that our judges have named
Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, edited by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin and co-published by the Brooklyn Museum and The MIT Press, the Specific Object 2012 Publication of the Year.
Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art reconsiders the six-year span from 1966 to 1972, which Lucy R. Lippard documented in her 1973 book
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 : A Cross-Reference Book of Information on Some Esthetic Boundaries ... / edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard, which serves as the definitive history of the emergence of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, and Video Art movements.
Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, designed by Margarita Encomienda, was published by MIT Press and the Brooklyn Museum on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title held at the Museum from September 14, 2012 to February 17, 2013. Edited and co-curated by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and the independent scholar Vincent Bonin,
Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art reconsiders Lippard's own reconsideration of a fervent period in which she experimented with new methodologies of writing on, and curating, dematerializing artworks. Specifically, the book, with four decades of hindsight, provides new clarity on a period of multifaceted activity that often could be seen only through ephemeral artwork and ephemera itself.
The book includes a new preface by Lippard herself, looking back on
Six Years forty years later, as well as a chapter on Lippard’s activism by Julia Bryan-Wilson.
In addition to
Materializing Six Years: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, the judges also wish to acknowledge three additional outstanding publications for 2012 from the over 400 submitted titles:
Clocks, an artist's book by Laura Owens, published by Karma, New York.
Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houédard, edited by Nicola Simpson, published by Occasional Papers, London.
Conceptual Art Shuffle, a project by Jonathan Monk, published by Commerce Books, New York.
About the Specific Object Publication of the Year Award
Since 2004 Specific Object has selected a Specific Object Publication
of the Year. The winner of the 2004 Specific Object Publication of the
Year Award was Jonathan Monk for his book
Cover Version, published by
Book Works U.K.; the winner for 2005 was Philippe Parreno's
Fade to Black, published by mfc-Michèle Didier; 2006's award was presented to
0 TO 9 : Limited Facsimile Edition by Vito Acconci & Bernadette Mayer
as part of the Ugly Duckling Presse / Lost Literature Series; 2007's
award was presented to
Esopus magazine; and the 2008 award winner was
The Mug by Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay, published by Other
Criteria. The 2009 winner was
Orchard Spreadsheet by R.H.Quaytman, published by MER. Paper Kunsthalle. The 2010 winner was Josh Smith and Todd Amicon for
A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST : Dakis Joannou Collection. The 2011 winner was Martha Wilson's
Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces.
About Specific Object
Specific Object is a hybrid think tank, gallery, bookstore and website based in New York
City.
Specifically, Specific Object is an attempt to isolate distinct works
of value - historically, monetarily and / or personally valuable - and
show them in an isolated context without the artifice of visual
confusion or clutter in hopes of allowing these works, or objects,
their own place, space and time. The materials shown range from
artists' publications, ephemera, prints, multiples and other editions
to literature, music / audio works and unique artworks of the
contemporary world.
From 1998 through 2004 Platzker was the Executive Director of the
non-profit institution Printed Matter, Inc. He is also the co-author,
and co-curator - with Elizabeth Wyckoff - of
Hard Pressed: 600 Years
of Prints and Process (International Print Center New York & Hudson
Hills Press, 2000); and - with Richard H. Asxom - the book and
exhibition entitled
Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg: A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996 (Madison Art Center & Hudson Hills Press, 1997), which was awarded the George Wittenborn
Award for Best Art Publication of 1997 by the Art Libraries Society of
North America. Platzker has also curated exhibitions of the works of
John Baldessari, Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Oldenburg,
Dieter Roth, and Edward Ruscha in addition to commissioning or curating
exhibitions at Printed Matter of Angelblood, Larry Clark, Erin
Cosgrove, Meg Cranston, General Idea, Jenny Holzer, Reverend Jen, Allan
Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Ryan McGinness, Sonic Youth, Tom Sachs, David
Tremlett, Richard Tuttle and the Guerrilla Girls.
Specific Object is located at 601 West 26th Street / Floor 2M / Room
M285, New York, NY 10001. Telephone (212) 242-6253.
For more information regarding Specific Object please visit its
website: www.specificobject.com or email david@specificobject.com
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