Description

In this scholarly study of collaborative art, Green a collaborative artist and the Australian correspondent for Artforum, explores a crisis in artistic representation that has led to a reinvention of artistic identity. This is not a comprehensive study of artists who happen to work together but rather a specific, theoretically challenging look at a dozen artists whose work poses questions about authorship. These artists purposely undermine long-held assumptions about art as a record of personal expression and subjectivity. Included are Joseph Kosuth, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Gilbert & George, among a few less recognizable names. The work of each of these artists is well contextualized by Green, who is clearly an authority in this field. He testifies to the importance of these artists, who in some cases have been marginalized by critics because their work did not serve the antimodernist style championed during the height of Postmodernism. Recommended for contemporary art collections.