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Chevrier, Jean-Francois (Editor) Documenta X: The Book
Cantz Editions June 1997 3-89322-911-6 / 9783893229116 Hardcover Near Fine/Near Fine
A highly collectible rare first edition. This massive volume presents the hundreds of contemporary works that were on display as part of either the Venice Biennale or the quinquennial Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany. Both shows purport to survey the entire international contemporary art scene, and both are regularly criticized for being too broad or too narrow, for favoring a certain movement or style, or for ignoring specific artists, countries, or continents. Nonetheless, these shows remain the best chance to freeze a moment in the cascade of images and try to draw some broad connections. The Venice show is traditionally organized by nationality, and the jury has only limited choice in determining who represents each nation (satiric painter Robert Colescott represented the United States in 1997). Acclaimed curator Celant, in his first time at the helm of the Venice show, found a way around this by creating a concurrent show, Future Present Past, which ostensibly compares the three generations of artists currently active. Except for some verbose front matter, the two volumes present the Venice shows in a straightforward manner, reproducing multiple works from the more than 50 national representatives in Volume 1 and from the 60 curated artists in Volume 2. Because curator David and her team chose overtly to build the show around a theme, which could very roughly be called politics of the avant-garde. Documenta was probably a more successful exhibit, but it is also a more challenging catalog. This being the tenth show, culminating 50 years of avant-garde art in the postwar period, David asked French art historian
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11000.00 JPY
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