Research Catalog

Title

Paul Thek in process / Susanne Neubauer.

Author

Neubauer, Susanne.

Publication

Zürich : JRP/Ringier c2012.

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Additional Authors

Thek, Paul.

Description

143 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In 1971, Harald Szeeman invited the American sculptor and installation pioneer Paul Thek (1933-1988) to contribute to documenta 5. Szeemann had titled one section of the exhibition 'Individual mythologies,' describing a new kind of art structured around mythologies invented by artists, rather than by a culture. Thek's contribtion came to be seen as a paradigm of this trope. -- Paul Thek in process evolved out of the discovery of an unrealized publication project initiated while installing his first space-filling environment, Pyramid/A work in progress at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in the winter of 1971, which was to have been released for documenta 5. For this endeavor, an extraordinary number of images were taken-about 800-capturing the progress of the installation, the opening, and the final state of this pivotal work of 1970s installation art"--P. [4] of cover.

Subject

• Thek, Paul > Exhibitions
• Thek, Paul

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreward / Daniel Birnbaum -- 1. Paul Thek's environment Pyramid/A work in progress at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1971-1972 -- 1.1 Artist -- 1.2 Remnants -- 1.3 Curators -- 1.4 Preparations -- 1.5 Installation of the environment -- 1.6 Book project -- 1.7 -- Reception -- 2. Documents and research -- 2.1 Documents and objects, irrestible research on the art of the 1970s -- 2.2 Contact sheets -- 2.3 Source material, selected bibliography, and author's biography.

ISBN

• 9783037642535
• 303764253X

OCLC

• 765812906
• SCSB-10107520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library