Content .:. A contemporary focus 1974-1984

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A contemporary focus 1974-1984. Washington: Hirshhorn Museum, 1984. 184 Seiten mit Literaturverzeichnis. Kartoniert. 4to. 732 g

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* Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, October 4, 1984 - January 6, 1985.
Bestell-Nr.158592 | ISBN: 0-87474-437-7

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Content | Kunstausstellung | Ausstellungskatalog | Exhibition Catalogue

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This exhibition celebrates the first ten years of the existence of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a period that has seen the Museum's transformation from a private collection to a national institution. The decade 1974 to 1984 has also witnessed a critical juncture in twentieth-century art, identified with a climate of new ideas about art and its place in human culture. The central artistic concerns have shifted from issues of form—how an object is made and perceived, or what defines its style—to those of content—considerations of why art is made and experienced, and what a work of art means or signifies beyond the experience of its formal and stylistic ingredients. Metaphysical ideas, social commentary, and use of allusion and metaphor—elements that many artists and critics had considered inappropriate to art only ten years ago—are now essential to the creation and understanding of much contemporary art. Content, in a word, has emerged as a central issue of the international avant-garde.

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CONTENTS
6 Lenders to the Exhibition 9 Foreword by Abram Lerner II Acknowledgments 13 Preface 14 The Will to Meaning Howard N. Fox 25 Content: Making Meaning and Referentiality Miranda McClintic 39 Catalog of the Exhibition 164 Chronology Phyllis Rosenzweig 181 Bibliography

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