Metaphorical materialism : art in New York in the late 1960s / by Dominic Rahtz.

"In Metaphorical Materialism: Art in New York in the Late 1960s, Dominic Rahtz returns to a period when the materiality of art was thematized and theorized according to varying conceptions of matter and form, and consciously related to materialisms held as wider philosophical and political posi...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Rahtz, Dominic (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Studies in art & materiality ; v. 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Introduction: Materiality as a Material
  • 1 Metaphorical Materialism
  • 2 Materiality from the Side of Art
  • 3 Materiality from the Side of Materialism
  • Chapter 1 Carl Andre's Materialism
  • 1 The 'Materialism' of the Rain
  • 2 A Simple Array Dictated by a Property of the First Particle
  • 3 Labour is the Living Fire That Shapes the Pattern
  • 4 The Innocence of Matter
  • Chapter 2 Cinders: Robert Smithson
  • 1 'Cinders'
  • 2 The Fringes ... the Cold Walks ...
  • 3 Materialism Inverted
  • 4 Meaningless Reverberations
  • Chapter 3 Process and Reality in Richard Serra's Early Work
  • 1 Forms of Process
  • 2 Anti Form
  • 3 In-formation
  • 4 Process within and without the Labour Process
  • Chapter 4 Eva Hesse, Feeling and Form
  • 1 Feeling and Form
  • 2 A Closed Material Individuality
  • 3 Everything is Process
  • 4 Matter That Bodies
  • Chapter 5 Statement and Action in Lawrence Weiner's Conceptual Art
  • 1 Statements and Actions
  • 2 Statement and Action in Language
  • 3 The Politics of Reference
  • Conclusion
  • 1 Materials in Particular and Materiality in General
  • 2 Form and Material
  • Bibliography
  • Index