Metaphorical materialism : : art in New York in the late 1960s / / Dominic Rahtz.

• Superior document: Studies in Art and Materiality
• VerfasserIn: Rahtz, Dominic,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Art and Materiality
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 pages)

"In Metaphorical Materialism: Art in New York in the Late 1960s, Dominic Rahtz returns to a period when the materiality of art was thematized and theorized according to varying conceptions of matter and form, and consciously related to materialisms held as wider philosophical and political positions and attitudes. The book consists of a volume of essays on the relationships between materiality and materialism, informed by definitions of labour, process, corporeality, and language, in the work of Carl Andre, Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Lawrence Weiner"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction: Materiality as a Material -- 1 Metaphorical Materialism -- 2 Materiality from the Side of Art -- 3 Materiality from the Side of Materialism -- Chapter 1 Carl Andre's Materialism -- 1 The 'Materialism' of the Rain -- 2 A Simple Array Dictated by a Property of the First Particle -- 3 Labour is the Living Fire That Shapes the Pattern -- 4 The Innocence of Matter -- Chapter 2 Cinders: Robert Smithson -- 1 'Cinders' -- 2 The Fringes ... the Cold Walks ... -- 3 Materialism Inverted -- 4 Meaningless Reverberations -- Chapter 3 Process and Reality in Richard Serra's Early Work -- 1 Forms of Process -- 2 Anti Form -- 3 In-formation -- 4 Process within and without the Labour Process -- Chapter 4 Eva Hesse, Feeling and Form -- 1 Feeling and Form -- 2 A Closed Material Individuality -- 3 Everything is Process -- 4 Matter That Bodies -- Chapter 5 Statement and Action in Lawrence Weiner's Conceptual Art -- 1 Statements and Actions -- 2 Statement and Action in Language -- 3 The Politics of Reference -- Conclusion -- 1 Materials in Particular and Materiality in General -- 2 Form and Material -- Bibliography -- Index.