John Miller

A Refusal to Accept Limits

John Miller, Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter, Jutta Koether, Beatrix Ruf, Branden W Joseph (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2010
JRP Editions SA (Verlag)
978-3-03764-032-6 (ISBN)

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Among such contemporaries as Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw, but also Tony Oursler and Stephen Prina, John Miller embodies a singular position: he articulates the synthesis of an ideologically committed critique of representation with a postconceptual shift toward the "real." Using completely stereotyped genres (figurative painting, travel photography, landscape painting, and so on), Miller, like Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince, has, since the end of the 1970s, challenged the function of the author and the concomitant loss of aura of the artwork. Yet this critique is for him only a means of revealing the repressed aspect of the ideological aggregates of day-to-day late-capitalist Western culture. * * First noticed for his brown "faux" abstract painting and objects recovered by a brown impasto, he resisted to what he calls "aesthetic appropriation" by regularly shifting his practice, introducing series such as the "Middle of the Day" photographs, game show sets and paintings, and golden maquettes through the 1980s and 1990s. This strategy of resistance to a reduction of his work to any critical tag explains why, despite the early critical recognition of his work by theoreticians such as Hal Foster, he is still overlooked among his generation. * * Including newly commissioned essays, this book attempts to remap his entire oeuvre by articulating its development through various series, media, and aesthetic strategies. * * Published with Kunsthalle Zürich. * *

Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	238 x 286 mm
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
Schlagworte	1980s • 1990s • Abstract • contemporary Art • figurative painting • game show sets • Hardcover, Softcover / Sachbücher/Kunst, Literatur/Bildende Kunst • Kunst • landscape painting • late-capitalist Western culture • Literatur • Monograph • Photographs • Sachbücher • Travel photography • Zeitgenössische Kunst
ISBN-10	3-03764-032-4 / 3037640324
ISBN-13	978-3-03764-032-6 / 9783037640326
Zustand	Neuware