On the Trail of Lygia Clark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3870567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Zerbib (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 38 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique d’art (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1246-8258 • E-ISSN: 2265-9404 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/critiquedart.1454 |
| OpenAlex | W2086643295 |
| Language | EN |
The black box, with its slightly enigmatic title, seems to put the object governing its existence at a remove–the oeuvre of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988). But there is less editorial awkwardness here than signs of a conception of the archive championed by the author: the remove of the evidence is the space of a relationship to be constructed or “activated”, a sort of “void” or “incompleteness” to be crossed. Otherwise put, the work is not in the box. Nor, incidentally, is it in
Art · Art, Politics, and Modernism · History, Culture, and Society · Memory, Trauma, and Testimony
| Highly cited | No |
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