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Power, bits myths and mores in American art, 1961-1991, Holliday T. Day ; with essays by Brian Wallis, Anna C. Chave, and George E. Marcus ; artists' profiles by Catsou Roberts, and a photographic essay by Christopher Scoates and Debra Wilbur

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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, September 5-November 3, 1991, Akron Art Museum, January 18-March 21, 1992, and the Virginia Museum fo Fine Arts, May 11-July 12, 1992Includes bibliographical references and index

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Power

Holliday T. Day ; with essays by Brian Wallis, Anna C. Chave, and George E. Marcus ; artists' profiles by Catsou Roberts, and a photographic essay by Christopher Scoates and Debra Wilbur

bits myths and mores in American art, 1961-1991

This exhibition catalog includes essays by Day's coauthors, who present varied points of view as to whether artists can effectively criticize the existing power structure in society today when they themselves participate as the avant-garde within the same system. The volume represents 28 artists, spanning the pop and minimalist movements to the controversial art of the 1980s. They approach issues of power in diverse ways--at times questioning specific materials or production methods, at other times the literal reference an image projects, and often they are engaged with ideas based on context. These three themes form the configuration of the exhibition, eliciting questions with regard to gender, race, and class attitudes implicit in the visual images. The social implications of the artwork within the show are assessed by either an anthropological approach or a Western art-historical perspective

Foreword / by Bret Waller -- Preface / by Holliday T. Day -- The nature of power / Holliday T. Day -- Catalogue of the exhibition and artists' profiles / Catsou Roberts. Andy Waehol ; Richard Artschwager ; Roy Lichtenstein ; Donald Judd ; Frank Stella ; Walter De Maria ; Robert Morris ; Richard Serra ; Vito Acconci ; Robert Longo ; Chris Burden ; Stephen Laub ; Jenny Holzer ; Bruce Nauman ; Barbara Kruger ; Nancy Burson ; Cindy Sherman ; Peter Halley ; Clegg & Guttmann ; Ashley Bickerton ; Louise Lawler ; Haim Steinbach ; Tony Tasset ; Jeff Koons ; Richard Prince ; Lorna Simpson ; Krzysztof Wodiczko ; Dennis Adams -- Power, gender, and abstraction / Brian Wallis -- Minimalism and the rhetoric of power / Anna C. Chave -- The power of contemporary work in an American art tradition to illuminate its own power relations / George E. Marcus -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Photographic essay: Cowboys and Indians Curatorial Team

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