Situation Aesthetics : The Work of Michael Asher
  • critical theory
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 24.6 x 18.4 cm.
  • 222 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780262013680

Situation Aesthetics : The Work of Michael Asher

Michael Asher, Kirsi Peltomäki

Situation Aesthetics : The Work of Michael Asher

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An examination of the work of Michael Asher by Kirsi Peltomäki. "In 'Situation Aesthetics,' Kirsi Peltomäki 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, Peltomäki 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 Peltomäki discusses are described here for the first time." -- publisher's statement. Includes extensive footnotes and index.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
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