America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0262012286 ISBN 13: 9780262012287

Verlag: MIT Press, 2006

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a must-read in the form of the wall texts and the catalogue... [I]f you regard the show as necessarily more elusive and renegade, an extension of the catalogue as our only means of recapturing this couple's evanescent art, the rewards, subtle and cerebral and, yes, moral, are many. -- Christopher Millis The Boston Phoenix enchanting... hefty catalog bubbles with chatty, thoughtful reminiscences by students, artists, and curators who knew the pair. The Boston Globe Their work benefits more than most from the documentation this book makes so generously available, a book that is sure to make their influence on succeeding generations of artists even clearer. Publishers Weekly

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During their decade-long collaboration (1985-1995), Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced some of the most influential conceptual art projects of the time. Among their witty and stimulating installations and outdoor projects was Camouflaged History, a house painted in a U.S. Army-designed camouflage pattern using 72 commercial paint colors included in the municipally-approved "authentic colors" of historic Charleston, South Carolina. The commercial name of each paint, commemorating an aspect of the city's history, is also painted on the house, revealing and illuminating the lingering Civil War-era past of the region. Like the Earthwork pioneers, Ericson and Ziegler took the whole country as their working space; but rather than impose a conspicuous work of art upon a site or situation, they devised projects that altered sites subtly, creating a patchwork of poetic narratives and histories to be excavated. The windows rescued from the old National Licorice factory in Philadelphia in the title piece America Starts Here--which takes its name from the slogan used to promote Pennsylvania tourism during the 1980s--are hung according to the location of the original windows in the factory; the cracks in the glass echo the famous cracks in two of Philadelphia's tourist attractions, the Liberty Bell and Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass. Kate Ericson's death from cancer in 1995 at age 39 made the body of Ericson and Ziegler's collaborative work finite. America Starts Here offers a generous selection of Ericson and Ziegler's work, with much of it reproduced in color, and provides a critical analysis of the artists' still under-appreciated position in the history of twentieth-century art. It accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Ericson and Ziegler's work. Copublished with The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College and List Visual Arts Center at MIT.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0262012286
• ISBN 13: 9780262012287
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Herausgeber: Berry Ian, Arning Bill