Nothing in MoMA - Couverture souple

Adams, Abraham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1947447750 ISBN 13 : 9781947447752

Editeur : Punctum Books, 2018

Synopsis

Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the “grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking,” in the words of art historian David Joselit’s introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children’s board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing in MoMA is here collected for the first time in the series’ entirety.

Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams’s photographs likewise recalls François Jullien’s theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. Both a visual essay on museum phenomenology and a performance document, Nothing in MoMA describes a choreography of avoidance, in which a conceptual constraint becomes a means of seeing and navigating concrete space.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Abraham Adams (b. 1985) is an artist and writer based in New England. His work has been exhibited and performed at Artists Space and the Poetry Project in New York, Apt. 302 in Marseille, Galerie Barbara Weiss in Berlin, and elsewhere. His books include Nothing in MoMA (punctum, 2018), Before (Inpatient Press, 2016), and Intersubjectivity (Sternberg Press, 2016), and his essays on poetics have appeared with Artforum, Harper’s, and Triple Canopy. Formerly the associate editor of Zone Books and an editor of Ugly Duckling Presse, he now organizes the gallery Time Farm (with locations at MIT and elsewhere in Cambridge) and is an MFA candidate in the Brown University Literary Arts Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Punctum Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1947447750
• ISBN 13: 9781947447752
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
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