Words to Be Looked At Language in 1960s Art

Name: Words to Be Looked At Language in 1960s Art
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ISBN: 9780262113083

ISBN-10: 0262113082

ISBN-13: 9780262113083

Edition: 2007

Authors: Liz Kotz

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Language has been a primary element in visual art since the 1960s--in the form of printed texts, painted signs, words on the wall, recorded speech, and more. In Words to Be Looked At,Liz Kotz traces this practice to its beginnings, examining works of visual art, poetry, and experimental music created in and around New York City from 1958 to 1968. In many of these works, language has been reduced to an object nearly emptied of meaning. Robert Smithson described a 1967 exhibition at the Dwan Gallery as consisting of "Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read." Kotz considers the paradox of artists living in a time of social upheaval who use words but chose not to make statements with…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/21/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Liz Kotz teaches in the Art History Department at theUniversity of California, Riverside.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Proliferating Scores and the Autonomy of Writing



Post-Cagean Aesthetics and the Event Score



The Poetics of Chance and Collage



Poetry from Object to Action



Language between Performance and Photography



Text and Image: Rereading Conceptual Art


Conclusion: An Aesthetic of the Index?


Notes


Bibliography


Index