Author: Peltomaki, Kirsi
Title: Situation Aesthetics: The Work of Michael Asher
Description: Cambridge, MIT Press, 2010. Hardcover. A black matte casebound book with silver lettering on the spine. There is a dust jacket with black text on a muted green spine. The end pages are black. Pages: (12), 2-222. Contains several black-and-white illustrations. "Michael Asher doesn't make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories, or museums' own walls. Since the late 1960s, Asher has been creating situations that have not only taught us about the conditions and contexts of contemporary art, but have worked to define it. Kirsi Peltomaki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members). Drawing on art criticism, the reports of viewers and participants in Asher's projects, and the artist's own archives, Peltomaki offers a comprehensive account of Asher's work over the past four decades. Because of the intensely site-specific nature of this work, as well as the artist's refusal to reconstruct past works or mount retrospectives, many of the projects Peltomaki discusses are described here for the first time. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine; sticker on the back pasted end page. Otherwise, clean, bright pages and solid binding.

Keywords: American Art ; Asher, Michael ; ;


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