Design and Art (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) [Paperback]

Alex Coles (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0262532891 | ISBN-13: 978-0262532891 | Publication Date: April 20, 2007

This reader in Whitechapel's Documents of Contemporary Art series investigates the interchange between art and design. Since the the Pop and Minimalist eras--as the work of artists ranging from Andy Warhol to Dan Graham demonstrates--the traditional boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, and product design have dissolved in critically significant ways. Design and Art traces the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon through the writings of critics and practitioners active in both fields.The texts include writings by Paul Rand, Hal Foster, Miwon Kwon, and others that set the parameters of the debate; utopian visions, including those of architect Peter Cook and writer Douglas Coupland; project descriptions by artists (among them Tobias Rehberger and Jorge Pardo) juxtaposed with theoretical writings; surveys of group practices by such collectives as N55 and Superflex; and views of the artist as mediator--a role assumed in the past to be the province of the designer--as seen in work by Frederick Kiesler, Ed Ruscha, and others. Finally, a book that doesn't privilege either the art world or the design world but puts them in dialogue with each other.

Editorial Reviews

Review

" Design and Art is an indispensable guide to an an age-old rivalry that has now, as Alex Coles demonstrates, become a productive stimulus to invention and speculation." Barry Schwabsky , author of Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting.

Ed Ruscha is an internationally acclaimed artist based in Los Angeles.

About the Author

Miwon Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Paul Virilio has published twenty-five books, including Pure War (1988) (his first in English) and The Accident of Art (2005), both written with Sylvère Lotringer, as well as Speed and Politics and Lost Dimension, all published by Semiotext(e).

Mark Wigley is Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.

The first anthology to address the rise of the "design-art" phenomenon—the breakdown of boundaries between art and architectural, graphic, or product design begun in the Pop and Minimalist eras.

Mary Anne Staniszewski is Associate Professor of Electronic Arts History at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

"*Design and Art* is an indispensable guide to an an age-old rivalry that has now, as Alex Coles demonstrates, become a productive stimulus to invention and speculation."--Barry Schwabsky, author of *Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting*

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the twentieth century's most important artists and cultural icons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (April 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262532891
• ISBN-13: 978-0262532891
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars So far so good!, October 14, 2008

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This review is from: Design and Art (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art) (Paperback)

I have only started this book, but it seems to be very in depth look at the intersections between art and design. The typography is also well done.