Open Systems

by De Salvo, Donna

• ISBN13: 9781854375650
• ISBN10: 1854375652
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

"Open Systems" examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the last years of the 1960s and the early 1970s as they sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the time. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, the era saw the beginning of a radical departure from art's traditional focus to a new and wide-ranging experimentation with mediums that included dance, performance, and, most notably, film and video. "Open Systems" features the works of prominent artists working in Britain, Europe, South America, Japan, and the United States, and includes sculpture, sculptural installations, painting, film, video, photography, and printed matter. Among the artists examined are Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Fluxus, Dan Graham, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, On Kawara, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Robert Smithson, Martha Rosler, and Franz West.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Acknowledgements	p. 7
Where We Begin: Opening the system, c.1970	p. 10
From Box to Street and Back Again: An inadequate descriptive system for the Seventies	p. 24
The Mimesis of Thinking	p. 50
Mystics Rather than Rationalists	p. 64
Plates	p. 81
The Serial Attitude	p. 162
Systems Esthetics	p. 165
Intermedia	p. 170
Specific Objects	p. 172
The Response to Crisis	p. 175
Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967)	p. 180
Environmental Art, Postmodern Art: Helio Oiticica	p. 182
Select bibliography	p. 184
Copyright and photo credits	p. 187
List of exhibited works	p. 188
Lenders	p. 190
Index	p. 191
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