Dan Graham / Birgit Pelzer, Mark Francis, Beatriz Colomina.
London ; New York : Phaidon, 2001.
160 p. : il.
Serie: Contemporary artists.
ISBN 9780714839646 / EN / Libros / Dan Graham / Arte - Siglo XX / Instalaciones (Arte)
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72GRAHAM, D. DAN https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/318236499
[.en] Dan Graham (b.1942) is
one of the most influential of the American Conceptual artists who first
emerged in the mid 1960s, part of a generation that included the Minimalists
Carl Andre, Dan Flavin and Sol LeWitt, with whom he was closely associated
during that period. While their work offered a critique of the gallery's
white cube and the value of materials, Graham began to question the art system
itself and decided to operate outside it. From 1965 to 1969 he produced a
series of texts, such as Schema (1966), which he inserted into mass-market
magazines. The periodical nature of magazine production and consumption was
clearly related to the experience of time and change - a theme central to
Graham's work ever since.
In 1966-7 Graham also made a series of photographs showing details of suburban
housing projects, new shopping precincts, truck depots and roadside diners,
bearing the title “Homes for America”. Alongside the photographic images,
Graham's texts deconstruct social architectural spaces in ways that were far
ahead of their time. From 1969 to 1978 Graham worked primarily with
performance, film and video, focusing, for example, on the synchronization of
speech and breathing patterns between the artist and his audience. From 1974, with the
installation/performance “Present Continuous Past(s)”, Graham began to use
two-way mirror walls in relation to real reflections and time-delayed video
projections.
These works evolved
into the socially-based architectural projects such as open-air pavilions,
including a “Skateboard Pavilion” in Stuttgart in 1989 and in the same
year “The Children's Pavilion” (with Jeff Wall), and the “Star of David
Pavilion” (Vienna, 1991-6). All of Graham's projects are democratically
rooted in everyday urban life and activity - particularly children's play. His
work is thus as valuable to architects and town planners as to the art
community. During the 1990s he has been offered major public commissions
throughout North America and Europe.
In the Interview, London-based curator Mark Francis discusses with the artist
how his public participation-based work has evolved. In the Survey,
Brussels-based critic Birgit Pelzer draws on her extensive knowledge of
Graham's work and writings. New York-based architectural theorist Beatriz
Colomina focuses on Graham's “Alteration to a Suburban House” (1978). The
artist has chosen an extract from the science fiction novel “Ubik” by Philip K
Dick, whose writings were a formative influence. Writing has always been a
major aspect of Graham's work. His Artist's Writings range from early pieces on
Conceptual art, inserted in mass-market magazines, to writing on his fellow
artists, to analyses of popular culture from Dean Martin to the post-Punk era.
Dan Graham : buildings and signs : 1978 models : models for pavilions-sculptures and domestic vernacular architecture / [works, texts and photographs by Dan Graham ; editors, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen]. 
