Adrian Piper: A Retrospective

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dc.contributor.authorBerger, Maurice
dc.contributor.departmentCenter for Art, Design and Visual Cultureen_US
dc.contributor.programCenter for Art, Design and Visual Cultureen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-06T23:53:22Z
dc.date.available2017-03-06T23:53:22Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.descriptionAn exhibition catalogue, the book surveys the oeuvre of artist Adrian Piper from a variety of perspectives. Along with several essays it includes over 165 images and an illustrated time line as well as an exhibition checklist of works.en_US
dc.description.abstractOne of the most influential artists of her generation, Adrien Piper has produced an exceptionally impressive body of work spanning a period of over thirty years. She played a formative role in the emergence of Conceptual art in the 1960-s and 1970s and an even more crucial role in the development of identity-based art in the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps her most significant contribution has been to reaffirm the utopian potential of avant-garde art to transform society. Specifically, her reliance on minimalist and conceptualist forms generally thought by critics to be hermetic to effect social change has actually enhanced the ability of art to motivate viewers to examine intransigent attitudes about race, gender, and difference. A prominent philosopher as well as an artist, Piper has produced objects, installations, performances, videos, and soundworks that have established a direct, active relationship between artist and spectator, permitting neither to retreat to the usual defensive rationalizations that distance art from subjects as discomforting as personal bigotry and xenophobia. This catalogue, produced in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition organized by Maurice Berger, is the most comprehensive book ever published on the artist. Prolifically illustrated, it includes essays by Berger, Laura Cottingham, Jean Fisher, Kobena Mercer, Dara Meyers-Kinglsey, and the artist herself that illuminate the complex relationships between form and content in Piper's oeuvre from a variety of perspectives.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Lannon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Maryland State Arts Councilen_US
dc.format.extent218 pagesen_US
dc.genreexhibition catalogsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2FG0H
dc.identifier.citationPiper, A., Berger, M., & Fisher, J. (1999). Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (Vol. 3). Fine Arts Gallery Umbc.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn1-890761-02-8
dc.identifier.issn1521-1223
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/3843
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherFine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore Countyen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Center for Art Design and Visual Culture Collection
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIssues in Cultural Theory;Vol. 3
dc.rightsThis item may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. It is made available by UMBC for non-commercial research and education. For permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the author*
dc.subjectarten_US
dc.subjectinstallationen_US
dc.subjectphotographyen_US
dc.subjectConceptual arten_US
dc.subjectcontemporary arten_US
dc.subjectAdrian Piperen_US
dc.subjectperformanceen_US
dc.subjectsoundworksen_US
dc.subjectvideoen_US
dc.titleAdrian Piper: A Retrospectiveen_US
dc.title.alternativeIssues in Cultural Theory 3en_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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