ARTISTS' MULTIPLES 1935-2000 by Stephen Bury ( 9780754600756 )

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Title:

ARTISTS' MULTIPLES 1935-2000

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0754600750

ISBN 13:

9780754600756

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

29 November, 2001

Pages:

240

Description:

Utilizing the new processes and materials of industry, the artist's multiple offered to the 20th century an art form that, like the products of consumer society, was repeatable and denied the uniqueness of the traditional art object.

Synopsis:

The artist's multiple is perhaps the art of the twentieth century. If in the nineteenth century art could be seen as distinct from products of industry, in the early twentieth century industry could confidently project itself as art. The artist's multiple, in its delight in reproducibility, industrial fabrication, and new processes and materials, exemplifies this trend. Stephen Bury explores the historical background of the multiple, examining its relationship to the jeu d' esprit of the artist's studio, the readymade, constructivism, the store and the everyday. It looks at the work of Marcel Duchamp, George Maciunas, Joseph Beuys and Felix Gonzalez-Torres as well as contemporary practice, such as 'The Multiple Store'. An illustrated and chronologically arranged catalogue of over 800 multiples produced between 1935 and 2000 provides a wide selection of different approaches by artists to the medium. A chronology, glossary and detailed bibliography are also included.

Illustrations:

Includes 80 b&w illustrations

Publication:

Imprint:

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Returns:

Returnable

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