Big Sign - Little Building
A selection of slides of Steven Izenour from the archive of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
ed. by Marta Kuzma ; contributors Robert Smithson, Venturi and Rauch, Jeff Wall, Ed Ruscha ...[et al.]

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Editor(s)

Marta Kuzma

Publication

London ; Oslo : Koenig Books ; Office for Contemporary Art Norway, 2014

Scope

192 Pages, illustrated, 29 cm.

ISBN

9783863355043

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The exhibition and the book introduces a wider field of inquiry as pursued by the radical artists and architects who throughout the 60s and 70s explored how the aesthetic experience of nature within modernity arrived at the perception of the expressiveness of nature through the expressiveness in things.Through the work of Allan D’Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg, Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, and Jeff Wall, among other archival materials and publications, the exhibition integrates projects that revised interpretations of landscape, building, and monument. The exhibition reflects upon how these artists and architects attempted to dislocate traditional interpretations of these concepts in an effort to generate a critical dialogue around the effects of power inscribed in public information generated by the city and by the hierarchies, standardisations, and space-time relationships effected by corporate development.

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Person as subject

Allan D’Arcangelo, Claes Oldenburg, Charlotte Posenenske, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall, Venturi and Rauch, Peter Eisenman, ...[et al.]

Keywords

art in public space , land art , installation , sculpture , urbanism , economy

Geographical location

United States Nevada Las Vegas

Location

Cabinet 15 - 4: Architectuur en Kunst

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks