Inside the White Cube The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition

Name: Inside the White Cube The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition
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ISBN: 9780520220409

ISBN-10: 0520220404

ISBN-13: 9780520220409

Edition: 2010 (Expanded)

Authors: Brian O'Doherty, Thomas McEvilley

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When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated--the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 8.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Notes on the Gallery Space


A Fable of Horizontal and Vertical


Modernism


The Properties of the Ideal Gallery


The Salon


The Easel Picture


The Frame as Editor


Photography


Impressionism


The Myth of the Picture Plane


Matisse


Hanging


The Picture Plane as Simile


The Wall As Battleground and "Art"


The Installation Shot



The Eye and the Spectator


Another Fable


Five Blank Canvasses


Paint, Picture Plane, Objects


Cubism and Collage


Space


The Spectator


The Eye


Schwitters's Merzbau


Schwitters's Performances


Happenings And Environments


Kienholz, Segal, Kaprow


Hanson, de Andrea


Eye, Spectator, and Minimalism


Paradoxes of Experience


Conceptual and Body Art



Context as Content


The Knock at the Door


Duchamp's Knock


Ceilings


1,200 Bags of Coal


Gestures and Projects


The Mile of String


Duchamp's "Body"


Hostility to the Audience


The Artist and the Audience


The Exclusive Space


The Seventies


The White Wall


The White Cube


Modernist Man


The Utopian Artist


Mondrian's Room


Mondrian, Duchamp, Lissitzky



The Gallery as a Gesture


Yves Klein's Le Vide


Arman's Le Plein


Warhol's Airborne Pillows


Buren's Sealed Gallery


Barry's Closed Gallery


Les Levine's White Light


The Christos' Wrapped Museum


Afterword