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Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman
Stephanie Smith
Smart Museum Of Art, The University Of C
Smart Museum Of Art, The University Of C
Since the 1960s, many artists have incorporated ecological concerns into their work, an endeavor that has required new strategies in art-making. To explore recent American manifestations of these interests, the David and Alfred Smart Museum...
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Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates
Jeffrey Kroessler, Frances Richard, Tom Finkelpearl, Jimbo Blachly, Sarah Oppenheimer, Mark Dion
Cabinet Books/The Queens Museum of Art/ White Columns
Cabinet Books/The Queens Museum of Art/ White Columns
In the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark discovered that the city of New York occasionally auctioned improbably tiny and frequently inaccessible parcels of land created by zoning eccentricities. Fascinated by these spaces, he bought 15 of...
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Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism
Julian Agyeman, Brigitte Franzen, Jamaica Kincaid, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Tom Finkelpearl, Ghada Amer, Mel Bochner, Mark Dion
Queens Museum of Art
Queens Museum of Art
An international array of artists including Isamu Noguchi, Jenny Holzer and Vito Acconci have been using the garden as a vehicle for commentary on social and political issues, in both public and private realms. The lush Down the Garden Path offers a...
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Mark Dion: Contemporary Artist (Contemporary Artists)
Mark Dion, Lisa Graziose Corrin, Miwon Kwon, Norman Bryson
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press
This text explores the work of vanguard artist Mark Dion who has made site-specific projects all over the world which explore the relationship of Western art, literature and museology with the natural environment. His sculptures and installations...
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Mark Dion: Concerning Hunting
Dieter Buchhart, Mark Dion
Hatje Cantz
Hatje Cantz
For more than 20 years, American artist Mark Dion has had archive fever. Organized according to a quirky system of categorization, his tableaux of dusty collections consist of stuffed bears, tarred birds and scientific tools, which are exhibited on...
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Archaeology
Mark Dion, Colin Renfrew, et al, Emi Fontana
Black Dog
Black Dog
Archaeological excavations aren't limited to ancient Egypt or Stone Age villages. Archaeology explores artist Mark Dion's far more contemporary digs: History Trash Dig 1995, History Trash Scan 1996, Raiding Neune's Vault 1997 and the Tate Thames...
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Mark Dion: Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus)
Mark Dion
Walther Konig
Walther Konig
Herewith in this very particular document please find carefully labeled photographs of stuffed polar bears in settings that imitate their natural environments. Witness close-up shots of the Eisbar at the Hessiches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt; the...
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