Coverbild Having Been Said
Having Been Said
Writings & Interviews of Lawrence Weiner 1968-2003
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Edited by: Gregor Stemmrich, Gerti Fietzek
Artist: Lawrence Weiner
English
January 2005 , 488 Pages, 0 Ills.
softcover
172mm x 241mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-9194-6
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The first complete collection, presented in chronological order: Lawrence Weiner comments on his work in writings and interviews from the last thirty-five years.
Lawrence Weiner's art uses language in reference to materials. Language itself is a material and at the same time a means of presentation of his work. Weiner evolved this approach in the context of the Conceptual Art of the late sixties. Yet he does not see his own work as "conceptual." The "space" he works within is the entire cultural context. His works are associated with various different media and forms of presentation: books, posters, videos, films, records, drawings, multiples, installations indoors and outdoors, and more. Since his earliest days as a professional artist Weiner has given written and verbal expression to questions concerning his work and its context. The utterances (statements, interviews, lectures, conference contributions) have been collected together in this publication for the first time, and ordered chronologically. Taken as a whole they afford an insight both into a complex individual biography and into the wider development of art and culture and the challenge that this entails. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-9193-9)Lawrence Weiner (*1942 in the Bronx, New York) studied literature and philosophy at Hunter College in New York. After an intensive study of the traditional arts of painting and sculpture, he developed his own approach to art, using language, in the late 1960s. His work has been seen in countless solo shows and large, important international exhibitions. Recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; K21, Düsseldorf; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, produced a retrospective of his work titled AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE (2007/08). Weiner's work has been shown at the documenta 5 (1972), 6 (1977), and 7 (1982), and will also be seen in 2012 at the dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel. The artist lives in New York and Amsterdam.
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