The Art of Dove Bradshaw
Thomas McEvilley
- Page Count: 120
- Size: 10 x 12
- Format: Flexible binding. Dust jacket.
- Publication Date: March 2003
- Price: 75.00
- ISBN: 0-9724240-1-6
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DOVE BRADSHAW has been a major proponent in the development of the artistic concept of indeterminacy. This monograph is the first extensive critical analysis of her work.
Her method has been to combine unstable materials with traditional ones, setting off a metamorphic process. The unstable materials are susceptible to weather and indoor atmosphere; their interaction takes precedence over considerations of taste in regard to color, structure and composition. Time, as a creative factor in her art, is as significant as the materials themselves. Canvasses change color, details fade or emerge as the unique materials used in their composition react indeterminately to atmospheric conditions. Marble boulders are gradually stained by water slowly dripping over unstable pyrite ores. In accordance with her thinking these artworks are never finished.
Thomas McEvilley reviews Bradshaw’s work from the perspectives of art as event and object, including descriptions of her collaborations with John Cage. There is a reprint of a rarely seen conversation between Cage and McEvilley on Bradshaw? work and themes.
This book will be an important addition to the libraries of her collectors, admirers, and students of art criticism, and to those interested in contemporary art history.
100 full color illustrations.
Thomas McEvilley has been a contributing editor of Artforum and has published hundreds of articles, catalogue essays, and reviews in the field of contemporary art, as well as monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, and Pat Steir. He is also Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Fulbright Grant in 1993.
John Cage was born on September 5, 1912, in Los Angeles, California, and died in New York City on August 12, 1992. He studied liberal arts at Pomona College, then studied composition with Henry Cowell in New York and Arnold Sch?berg in Los Angeles. In 1938 he founded a percussion orchestra there. He was musical advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, having been associated with Merce Cunningham since 1943. DOVE BRADSHAW has been a major proponent in the development of the artistic concept of indeterminacy. This monograph is the first extensive critical analysis of her work.
Her method has been to combine unstable materials with traditional ones, setting off a metamorphic process. The unstable materials are susceptible to weather and indoor atmosphere; their interaction takes precedence over considerations of taste in regard to color, structure and composition. Time, as a creative factor in her art, is as significant as the materials themselves. Canvasses change color, details fade or emerge as the unique materials used in their composition react indeterminately to atmospheric conditions. Marble boulders are gradually stained by water slowly dripping over unstable pyrite ores. In accordance with her thinking these artworks are never finished.
Thomas McEvilley reviews Bradshaw’s work from the perspectives of art as event and object, including descriptions of her collaborations with John Cage. There is a reprint of a rarely seen conversation between Cage and McEvilley on Bradshaw? work and themes.
This book will be an important addition to the libraries of her collectors, admirers, and students of art criticism, and to those interested in contemporary art history.
100 full color illustrations.
Thomas McEvilley has been a contributing editor of Artforum and has published hundreds of articles, catalogue essays, and reviews in the field of contemporary art, as well as monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, and Pat Steir. He is also Distinguished Lecturer in Art History at Rice University, where he has been on the faculty since 1969. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Fulbright Grant in 1993.
John Cage was born on September 5, 1912, in Los Angeles, California, and died in New York City on August 12, 1992. He studied liberal arts at Pomona College, then studied composition with Henry Cowell in New York and Arnold Sch?berg in Los Angeles. In 1938 he founded a percussion orchestra there. He was musical advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, having been associated with Merce Cunningham since 1943.
