Allen Ruppersberg
Subtitle: intellectual property 1968-2018
By: edited by Siri Engberg ; contributions by Thomas Crow, Siri Engberg, Aram Moshayedi, Matthew S. Witkovsky & Allen Ruppersberg
Contributors: Walker Art Center; Hammer Museum
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Walker Art Center
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781935963165
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Conceptual art; Installations (Art); Postmodernism; Themes, motives
Description: This fully illustrated catalog accompanies a major retrospective exhibition on one of conceptual art's most inventive and acclaimed practitioners. Emerging in late-1960s Los Angeles, Ruppersberg was among that city's first generation of conceptual artists to espouse a working method that privileges ideas and process over conventional aesthetic objects. Deploying posters, books, postcards and even a café and hotel, his projects have consistently had at their center a focus on the American vernacular - its music, popular imagery and ephemera - mining the nuances of culture through its unsung conventions. This is the most comprehensive publication to date on Ruppersberg's work, featuring a wealth of scholarly content and critical writing connecting Ruppersberg's work to the larger contemporary art field. Produced by the Walker's award-winning design studio and in close collaboration with the artist, the book presents a holistic view of Ruppersberg's wide-ranging, 50-year practice.  Exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (17.3. - 29.7. 2018).
Notes: Catalog to accompany an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 17-July 29, 2018 and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 10-May 12, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Essays.; title: As the Crow Flies: Following the Path of Allen Ruppersberg  -- Siri Engberg; title: The Picture of Allen Ruppersberg as a Young Man  -- Thomas Crow; title: Where's 'Al's Grand Hotel'?  -- Matthew S. Witkovsky; title: 20 Questions to Be Answered or Not  -- Various Artists; title: Allen Ruppersberg in the Guise of Many Others  -- Aram Moshayedi -- Texts / -- Allen Ruppersberg.; title: Menu from 'Al's Café' -- (1969) ;; title: Catalog for 'Al's Grand Hotel' -- (1971) ;; title: "Fifty Helpful Hints on the Art of the Everyday" -- (1984) ;; title: "You & Me" -- (1989) ;; title: "Honey, I Rearranged the Collection"-- (2000-2017).