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(ASHER, MICHAEL) (MUDFORD, GRANT). LONGHAUSER, ELSA & MIWON KWON MICHAEL ASHER: JANUARY 26 - APRIL 12, 2008Santa Monica, CA, Santa Monica Museum of Art., 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-9475108-4-X) Spiral Bound Wrappers, 4to, np (74pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by William Longhauser. This is the lovely catalogue documenting renowned Los Angeles based conceptual artist Michael Asher's most recent site-specific installation. Commissioned for the Santa Monica Museum of Art's twentieth anniversary, Asher stripped its interior down to the shell, then reconstructed each of the temporary walls erected for exhibition installations between May 1998 through December 2007 (as drawn from the construction floor plans housed in the Museums archives) using aluminum studs, but no drywall. The result was a gleaming, claustrophobic but navigable maze in which the only art was present was Asher's architectural barriers. The catalogue includes reproductions of the original exhibition floor plans, Miwon Kwon's essay "Support and Decoration: Michael Asher's Critique of the Architecture of Display", and gorgeous full-color documentation of the finished project (including four multi-page foldout plates) by noted architectural photographer Grant Mudford. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.. As New.
Offered for US$ 40.00 by: Arcana: Books on the Arts - Book number: 016313
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