Birgit Pelzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3867007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Pelzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelzer |
| SIGNATURE | PELZER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | BIRGIT PELZER is Emeritus Professor of Modern Aesthetics and Philosophy at the Écoles supérieures d'arts plastiques St-Luc et Erg, Brussels. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Paradigm of Deduction
If called upon to define Michael Asher's work here, I would have trouble succinctly describing the singularity of his place in the art scene of his time. His work, both ephemeral and without commercial production, rigorously resists standard formulas and recognizable labels
Dissociated Objects: The Statements/Sculptures of Lawrence Weiner
The Insistent Detail
From June 30 to July 3, 1990, Michael Asher removes all the bookmarks in the psychology section of the Public Reference Library (Bibliotheique publique d'information [BPI]) at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Of the 1,202 volumes in this section, fifty-seven of them contained, in all, sixty-seven slips of paper.1 In removing each one, he notes where it came from, as well as its exact position in the volume. From July 9 to September 15, 1991, the wal…
Recourse to the Letter
Marcel Broodthaers's work documents, in every respect, the singular circumstances of its production. In a letter of 1973, Broodthaers noted: As for the notion of establishing some direct relationship between literature and the visual arts, I'm afraid I've begun by choosing Mallarme's Le Coup de Des as a subject!!!' An open letter written in 1969, at the same time as the presentation of Broodthaers's book Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard.…
Vision in Process
Dan Graham's video installations might be described as attempts to reveal the reserve of unconscious relations which underpins the figurative choices proscribed by spatial codes. While aspiring to the greatest possible degree of transparency, these installations-like so many textual implements -isolate, confront, and recompose the signs which constitute those codes. This decomposition and recomposition of structural elements attempts to establish…
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Vision in Process
Dan Graham's video installations might be described as attempts to reveal the reserve of unconscious relations which underpins the figurative choices proscribed by spatial codes. While aspiring to the greatest possible degree of transparency, these installations-like so many textual implements -isolate, confront, and recompose the signs which constitute those codes. This decomposition and recomposition of structural elements attempts to establish…
Recourse to the Letter
Marcel Broodthaers's work documents, in every respect, the singular circumstances of its production. In a letter of 1973, Broodthaers noted: As for the notion of establishing some direct relationship between literature and the visual arts, I'm afraid I've begun by choosing Mallarme's Le Coup de Des as a subject!!!' An open letter written in 1969, at the same time as the presentation of Broodthaers's book Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard.…
The Insistent Detail
From June 30 to July 3, 1990, Michael Asher removes all the bookmarks in the psychology section of the Public Reference Library (Bibliotheique publique d'information [BPI]) at the Pompidou Center in Paris. Of the 1,202 volumes in this section, fifty-seven of them contained, in all, sixty-seven slips of paper.1 In removing each one, he notes where it came from, as well as its exact position in the volume. From July 9 to September 15, 1991, the wal…
Dissociated Objects: The Statements/Sculptures of Lawrence Weiner
The Paradigm of Deduction
If called upon to define Michael Asher's work here, I would have trouble succinctly describing the singularity of his place in the art scene of his time. His work, both ephemeral and without commercial production, rigorously resists standard formulas and recognizable labels
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