Inside the White Cube
Subtitle: The Ideology of the Gallery Space
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9780520220409
Subjects: Museums & Museology; Theory of art; General; Art Curatorship; Special Subjects In Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Space (Art); History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); American - General; European; Art / General; Environment (Art); Installations (Art)
First sentence: A recurrent scene in sci-fi movies shows the earth withdrawing from the spacecraft until it becomes a horizon, a beachball, grapefruit, a golf ball, a star.
Description: "When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated - the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. This edition also includes "The Gallery as a Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others."--BOOK JACKET.

"O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery were based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system."--BOOK JACKET.

"These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.