Lawrence Weiner: - As far as the Eye Can See

Klappentext Neither storybook nor autobiography, Something to Put Something On is rather a "questioning book" for children, at once moving and intriguing in its candor: I WAS A CHILD & AS MOST CHILDREN I DID MAKE THINGSI TRIED TO FIND A PLACE TO PUT THE THINGS I HAD MADEAGAIN & AGAIN I FOUND THAT THE SUPPORT OR PLINTH OR TABLEALL RESTED UPON THE EARTH & I REALIZED THAT ALL PEOPLE OFALL AGES WHO HAD MADE SOMETHING HAD TO FIND A PLACE TO PUTWHAT THEY HAD MADETHOSE PEOPLE WHO ASK THE QUESTION & THOSE PEOPLE WHO TRYTO ANSWER THE QUESTION ARE FUNCTIONING AS ARTISTS.I WAS A CHILD & DECIDED TO BE AN ARTIST.Something to Put Something On poses direct questions about art-making to and for young readers. Generously endowed with its maker's legendary wit, it is also, appropriately, the first title in the Little Steidl program. Zusammenfassung Lawrence Weiner is one of the primary figures associated with the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s. This publication represents the full range of Weiner's practice! since the early 1960s! from his early paintings to his work in language! including works on paper! films! videos! books! and public commissions.

Product details

• Authors: Et Al, A Goldstein, D Salvo, Donna De Salvo, Lawrence Weiner
• Assisted by: Donna De Salvo (Editor), Ann Goldstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2008
• EAN: 9780300126952
• ISBN: 978-0-300-12695-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 275 mm x 261 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Whitney Museum of American Art
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art