14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

The Resource 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
Label
14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s
Contributor
Filmmaker
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
The multiple means of making art after the end of illusionism led these artists to create performances, sculptures, earthworks, tableaux, furniture, shaped canvases, and more, using unusual materials. They explore the process of making forms and giving meanings to those forms. In this idea art, their focus is as often social and psychological as artistic. Some of their activities enlist engineering and construction techniques, others compose texts or scripts that are central to their art. Some cast the viewer in the role of a spectator, while the others demand active participation. The sources for their concepts and art works are equally diverse; the delicate proportions and balance of Early Renaissance painting, the exploration of the surface of the moon, the structure and inventions of vernacular architects, to name only a few
Cataloging source
VDU
Characteristic
videorecording
Date time place
Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1981
Language note
In English
PerformerNote
Features: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Alice Aycock, Scott Burton, Peter Campus, Chuck Close, Nancy Graves, Joseph Kosuth, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mary Miss, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Dorothea Rockburne, Joel Shapiro. Consultants Nancy Rosen, Roberta Smith,
Runtime
91
Technique
live action

Context

Context of 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s

Work of

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Deschutes Public Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.