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Alice Aycock : sculpture and projects
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"Alice Aycock's large, semi-architectural works deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer. Offered meaningful but contradictory clues b...
"Alice Aycock's large, semi-architectural works deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer. Offered meaningful but contradictory clues by both her images and her texts, viewers attempt to discover not only what the work of art conveys but how it communicates its contents, in investigations that parallel the artist's own. In Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects, Robert Hobbs examines the development of Aycock's work over twenty years and her negotiation - along with other artists who came of age in the early 1970s - of the transition from modernism to postmodernism."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Robert Hobbs
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]
- ©2005
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- xii, 423 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780262083393, 0262083396
- OCLC
- ocm56895233
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-413) and index.
- 1. The beginnings of a complex -- 2. Aycock on her family : facts into myths -- 3. Incarnating thought as baby boomer, cold war soldier, and '60s radical -- 4. From minimalism to the future -- 5. Cresting the minimalist/postminimalist divide -- 6. M.A. thesis : the highway network -- 7. Early work : projecting art into viewers' spaces and the world, the aesthetics of danger, and the synergy of 112 Greene Street -- 8. Maze, 1972 -- 9. Low building with dirt roof (for Mary), 1973 -- 10. Feminism -- 11. Drawing on a patriarchal order while deflecting it -- 12. Architectural sculpture -- 13. Site specificity -- 14. Architectural sculpture as suprastruction -- 15. Borges's tear and Aycock's rip -- 16. The true and the false project : embodied and disembodied seeing; phenomenology and schizophrenia -- 17. "The beginnings of a complex ... " : for documenta -- 18. Writerly texts and schizophrenia -- 19. Virtual space, Medieval legacies, and architectural sculpture -- 20. From architectural sculpture to the machine that makes the world -- 21. How to catch and manufacture ghosts -- 22. The art of memory in the age of artificial intelligence -- 23. Enmeshed in wisdom's nets -- 24. Sophistry and postmodernism