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Negative space : trajectories of sculpture in the 20th and 21st centuries

Title
Negative space : trajectories of sculpture in the 20th and 21st centuries / conceived and written by Peter Weibel ; edited by Peter Weibel with Anett Holzheid.
Author
Weibel, Peter
Publication
  • Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM / Center for Art and Media, [2021]
  • Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Holzheid, Anett
  • Hubenthal, Patrick
  • Dahm Robertson, Peter
  • Lawler, Dan
  • Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, host institution.
Description
677 pages, 27 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm
Summary
This monumental, richly illustrated volume from ZKM Karlsruhe approaches modern sculpture from a spatial perspective, interpreting it though contour, emptiness, and levitation rather than the conventional categories of unbroken volume, mass, and gravity. It examines works by dozens of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Ana Mendieta, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomás Saraceno, and Alicja Kwade. The large-scale book contains over 800 color images. 'Negative Space' comes out of an epic exhibition at ZKM, and volume editor Peter Weibel (Chairman and CEO of ZKM) takes a curatorial approach to the topic. The last exhibition to deal comprehensively with the question "What is modern sculpture?" was at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1986. Weibel and ZKM pick up where the Pompidou left off, examining sculptures not as figurative, solid, and self-contained monoliths but in terms of open and hollow spaces; reflection, light, shadow; innovative materials; data; and the moving image. Weibel puts advances in science, architecture, and mathematics in the context of avant-garde sensibilities to show how modern sculpture significantly deviates from the work of the past. Texts in the volume include an introduction and twelve chapters written by Weibel with contributions by cocurators as well as facsimiles and reproductions of artist-authored manifestos. Exhibition: ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (06.04. - 11.08.2019).
Alternative Title
Negativer Raum
Subject
  • 1900-2099
  • Sculpture, Modern > 20th century
  • Sculpture, Modern > 21st century
  • Art, Modern > 20th century
  • Art, Modern > 21st century
  • Space (Art)
  • Art, Modern
Note
  • Texts translated from German.
  • Published to accompany exhibit held at the ZKM / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, April 6, 2019 - August 11, 2019.
  • Original title in English. Title of exhibition in German: Negativer Raum.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic resources and index of works.
Call Number
JQG 22-370
ISBN
  • 9780262044868
  • 0262044862
LCCN
2020933241
OCLC
1286804712
Author
Weibel, Peter, author, editor.
Title
Negative space : trajectories of sculpture in the 20th and 21st centuries / conceived and written by Peter Weibel ; edited by Peter Weibel with Anett Holzheid.
Publisher
Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM / Center for Art and Media, [2021]
Distributor
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographic resources and index of works.
Chronological Term
1900-2099
Added Author
Holzheid, Anett, editor.
Hubenthal, Patrick, translator.
Dahm Robertson, Peter, translator.
Lawler, Dan, translator.
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQG 22-370
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