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Dissolve Into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004

Dissolve Into Comprehension: Writings and Interviews, 1964-2004

Burnham, Jack
Ragain, Melissa

Hardcover

Series: Writing Art

Art Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 0262029278
ISBN13: 9780262029278
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Sep 4 2015
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.40 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Influential writings by the legendary art critic and theorist Jack Burnham--a pioneer in new media systems aesthetics and an early advocate of conceptualism.

Jack Burnham is one of the few critics and theorists alive today who can claim to have radically altered the way we think about works of art. Burnham's use of the term system (borrowed from theoretical biology) in his 1968 essay System Aesthetics announced the relational character of conceptual art and newer research-based projects. Trained as an art historian, Burnham was also a sculptor. His first book, Beyond Modern Sculpture (1968), established him as a leading commentator on art and technology. A postformalist pioneer, an influential figure in new media art history, an early champion of conceptual and ecological art, and the curator of the first exhibition of digital art, Burnham is long overdue for reevaluation. This book offers that opportunity by collecting a substantial and varied selection of his hard-to-find texts, some published here for the first time.

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