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Less is a bore : maximalist art & design / editor, Jenelle Porter ; organized by Jenelle Porter, guest curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, assistant curator.

Title
Less is a bore : maximalist art & design / editor, Jenelle Porter ; organized by Jenelle Porter, guest curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, assistant curator.
Publication
  • Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Porter, Jenelle
  • Goldin, Amy
  • Auther, Elissa
  • De Blois, Jeffrey
  • Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.), host institution.
Description
223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
"Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design' is a multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design. Borrowing its ethos from Robert Venturi's infamous retort to Mies van der Rohe's modernist edict "less is more", it includes works that privilege decoration and maximalism over modernism's "ornament as crime" philosophy. The catalog begins in the 1970s with artists who sought to rattle the dominance of modernism and minimalism, such as those affiliated with Pattern & Decoration. 'Less Is a Bore' includes experiments in patterning by Sanford Biggers, Jasper Johns and Miriam Schapiro; the transgressive sculpture and furniture of Lucas Samaras and Ettore Sottsass; and the installations of Polly Apfelbaum, Nathalie du Pasquier and Virgil Marti. Also included are works by Roger Brown, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Jeffrey Gibson, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Ellen Lesperance, Sol LeWitt, Howardena Pindell, Lari Pittman, Pae White and Betty Woodman, among others"--
Alternative Title
  • Less is a bore : maximalist art and design
  • Maximalist art & design
  • Maximalist art and design
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Less is a bore: maximalist art & design at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, June 26-September 22, 2019"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Maximalism now! / Jenelle Porter -- Matisse and decoration: the late cut-outs / Amy Goldin -- Warhol, wallpaper, and contemporary installation art / Elissa Auther.
Call Number
JQE 19-625
ISBN
  • 9780997253849
  • 0997253843
OCLC
1089221617
Title
Less is a bore : maximalist art & design / editor, Jenelle Porter ; organized by Jenelle Porter, guest curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, assistant curator.
Publisher
Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Porter, Jenelle, curator, editor, writer of added commentary.
Goldin, Amy, writer of added commentary.
Auther, Elissa, writer of added commentary.
De Blois, Jeffrey, curator.
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.), host institution.
Research Call Number
JQE 19-625
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