Research Catalog

Title

• It is what it is. Or is it? / [preface, Bill Arning ; [essay], Dean Daderko ; edited by Dean Daderko, Karen Kelly, and Barbara Schroeder].

Publication

• Houston, TX : Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, [2012]
• New York, NY : Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
• ©2012

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Arning, Bill
• Arning, Bill,
• Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, Tex.) host institution.
• Daderko, Dean
• Daderko, Dean,
• Kelly, Karen
• Kelly, Karen,
• Schroeder, Barbara
• Schroeder, Barbara,

Description

133 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

In 1914, Marcel Duchamp purchased a bottle rack, called it a sculpture, put his name to it and the "readymade" artwork was born. It Is What It Is. Or Is It? considers the legacy of the readymade in contemporary artistic practice as the form approaches its 100th anniversary and attempts to recuperate the radicality of Duchamp's foundational gesture.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
• Found objects (Art) > 21st century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'It is what it is. Or is it?', organized by Dean Daderko, curator, for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, May 12-July 29, 2012. Edited by Dean Daderko, Karen Kelly, and Barbara Schroeder"--P. 133.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Bill Arning -- Where do we go from here? / Marcel Duchamp -- A readymade remade, even / Dean Daderko -- The romantic adventures of an adversative Rotarian or allreadymadesomuchoff / collated by Lucy Lippard -- Exemplar / Joseph Kosuth -- Ready-made artist and human strike: a few clarifications / Claire Fontaine.

ISBN

• 9781933619378
• 1933619376

OCLC

794364510

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library