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Unmonumental

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Unmonumental introduces the world to a significant recent development in art that takes the definition of sculpture as an autonomous object and shatters it to pieces. Rather than cast or carved, these sculptures have been cobbled together from bits of the world at large. Less dedicated to memory, the works in this show are of their moment, making gentle or high mockery of a wide range of histories, employing a variety of 'neo-traditionalisms' that riff on everything from Russian Constructivism to 1980s appropriation. Far from paying tribute to received notions of the courageous, they are patently anti-heroic. In short, they are a metaphor for our times. at the New Museum of Contemporary Art's landmark new building on the Bowery in New York.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Release: November 28, 2007

ISBN: 0714848298

ISBN 13: 9780714848297

Unmonumental

4/5 ( ratings)

Unmonumental introduces the world to a significant recent development in art that takes the definition of sculpture as an autonomous object and shatters it to pieces. Rather than cast or carved, these sculptures have been cobbled together from bits of the world at large. Less dedicated to memory, the works in this show are of their moment, making gentle or high mockery of a wide range of histories, employing a variety of 'neo-traditionalisms' that riff on everything from Russian Constructivism to 1980s appropriation. Far from paying tribute to received notions of the courageous, they are patently anti-heroic. In short, they are a metaphor for our times. at the New Museum of Contemporary Art's landmark new building on the Bowery in New York.

Language: English

Pages: 216

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Phaidon Press

Release: November 28, 2007

ISBN: 0714848298

ISBN 13: 9780714848297

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