Group Material's seventeen-year collaboration began in New York in 1979 through the artists' shared interests in collective, politicized practices and their immersion in a localized network of countercultural activities. While GM's cadre of participants shifted over time (from the dozen who launched its first year to a smaller core comprising Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Mundy McLaughlin, Félix González-Torres, and Tim Rollins), its practice developed a consistent aesthetic vocabulary in dialogue with major figures of 1980s art and with an eye to 1960s conceptualism and the Soviet avant-garde. GM threw open the class coordinates of art's public and introduced a distinct set of responses to the central problematics of 1980s art: the debates over representation, appropriation, painting, public space, and activism. / History of Art and Architecture
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:harvard.edu/oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/12274556 |
Date | January 2014 |
Creators | Grace, Claire Robbin |
Contributors | Lambert-Beatty, Carrie |
Publisher | Harvard University |
Source Sets | Harvard University |
Language | en_US |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
Rights | closed access |
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