American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Permissions
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys: Mary Miss


2. Constructing A Better World: From the Bauhaus to Postwar America


3. Twentieth Century Engineering: Donald Judd and Robert Grosvenor


4. Monuments, Landmarks, and Ruins: Claes Oldenburg and Robert Smithson


5. Idea as Model: Lawrence Weiner and Gordon Matta-Clark

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Susanneh Bieber is Assistant Professor in the School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts and the School of Architecture at Texas A&M University.

Summary

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.

Product details

• Authors: Susanneh Bieber, Susanneh (School of Architecture At Texas Bieber
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032280516
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228051-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, Landscape art & architecture, ART / History / General, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / American / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Interdisciplinary studies, History of Architecture, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Urban communities, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Landscape architecture and design, Theory of architecture, Industrialisation and industrial history, Civil engineering, surveying and building