Jo Baer
Subtitle: In the land of the giants
By: editors Jo Baer, Claire van Els, and Ann Goldstein ; authors Jo Baer, Patrick Dillon, Barbara Ellison, Claire van Els, David Raskin
Contributors: Dillon, Patrick, author; Ellison, Barbara (Artist), author; Els, Claire van, author, editor; Goldstein, Ann, editor; Raskin, David, 1968-, author
Series: Catalogue number Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam -- 898; Cat. nr. (Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum) -- 898.
Publisher: Stedelijk Museum
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9789050061865
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: In the land of the giants
Description: In the 1960s and 1970s, Baer, along with contemporaries such as Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, was one of the pioneers of Minimal Art. The paintings and drawings in the exhibition illustrate Baer's interest in the practices of our Neolithic past, with stone, astronomical alignments, skull cults, and ancestor worship as her subject matter. Baer became interested in this prehistory while living and working in a Norman castle in rural Ireland from 1975 to 1982. A recent visit to Neolithic sites inspired her to create the series of paintings for which the vast 'Hurlstone' came to form both subject and object. 0Exhibition: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands (16.5.-1.9.2013).