Michael Asher: The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, January 21-March 4, 1990

Michael Asher: The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, January 21-March 4, 1990 image
ISBN-10:

0941548201

ISBN-13:

9780941548205

Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1991
Format: Paperback, 54 pages
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Description:

The dwelling, the walls, the windows, the roof, the furniture, the pictures, the ornaments, the dress, the fence or hedge-all act constantly upon the imagination and determine its contents. -- Charles Henderson In 1990, Asher, armed with his characteristic incisive wit and critical intellect, set out to dig through the historical foundations of the Renaissance Society's Bergman Gallery at the University of Chicago. This exhibition marks Asher's shift from physically altering gallery spaces to using text and documentation as a manifestation of the ideological backgrounds for exhibitions. Revealing the underlying intellectual and social coordinates of The Society by juxtaposing writings from early University of Chicago scholars of the American Arts and Crafts Movement with the U.S. patent numbers for various gallery fixtures, Asher's exhibition was a brilliant contribution to the movement of institutional critique. With detailed and thorough reproductions of the installation alongside


























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