Rock My Religion : Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 by Dan Graham
  • critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.5 x 20 cm.
  • 328 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • ISBN 0262071479

Rock My Religion : Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 by Dan Graham

[Hardcover Edition]

Dan Graham, Brian Wallis

Rock My Religion : Writings and Art Projects, 1965-1990 by Dan Graham

description

Compendium of writings and projects for publication by Dan Graham, edited by Brian Wallis. Essays include "My Works for Magazine Pages: 'A History of Conceptual Art;'" "Information: Conceptual Art / Magazines / The Sixties"; "Eisenhower and the Hippies"; "Side Effect / Common Drug"; "Homes for America"; "Schema (March 1966)"; "Information"; "Figurative"; "'Aspen': One Proposal"; "Income Piece"; "Subject Matter"; "Detumescence"; "Dean Martin / Entertainment as Theater"; "Past Future/Split Attention"; "The End of Liberalism"; "Rock My Religion"; "Punk as Propaganda"; "Performer / Audience / Mirror"; "New Wave Rock and the Feminine"; "Body Press"; "McLaren's Children"; "Performance and Stage Set"; "The Lickerish Quartet"; "Cinema"; "Theater, Cinema, Power"; "Public Space / Two Audiences"; "Gordon Matta-Clark"; "Alteration of a Suburban House"; "Art as Design"; "Video Design"; "Art in Relation to Architecture / Architecture in Relation to Art"; "Video View of Suburbia in an Urban Atrium"; "The City as Museum"; "Two Adjacent Pavilions"; "Corporate Arcadias"; "Pergola / Conservatory"; "Garden as Theater as Museum"; and "Children's Pavilion."

"Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimal artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.

Alternating with these theoretical essays and descriptions and documentations of Graham's own works and installations - projects that trace his explorations in conceptual art, video, photography, architecture, and public sculpture, showing the integral connections between Graham's criticism and his own artwork." -- from dust-jack text.

"Dan was the first person to encourage me to write. By participating in a performance of his involving an all girl band he also encouraged me to play music. Sonic Youth never would have existed without Dan Graham. Rock My Religion is a fresh memento of Dan's perceptive brilliance and friendship." -- Kim Gordon, lead singer of Sonic Youth as quoted on book dust-jacket.

And if that's not cool enough the book is a fun read too.

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Condition:  Good / Very Good. Light wear to dust-jacket's edges. 6 mm. tear and moderate wear along jacket's upper spine edge. 1.3 cm. black MIT Press logo stamp to bottom page edges. Contents clean and unmarked.
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