Artists' Multiples: 1935-2000
Artists' Multiples: 1935-2000
Bury, Stephen. Artists's Multiples: 1935-2000, 2001, London, Ashgate Publishing and The British Library, 208 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, hardback, new $140
The artist's multiple is perhaps the art of the twentieth century. If in the nineteenth centry art could be seen as distinct from products of industry, in the early twentieth century industry could confidently project itself as art. The artist's multiple, in its delight in reproducibility, industrial fabrication, and new processes and materials, exemplifies this trend. Stephen Bury explores the historical background of the multiple, examining its relationship to the jeu d'esprit of the artist's studio, the readymade, constructivism, the store and the everyday. It looks at the work of Marcel Duchamp, George Maciunas, Joseph Beuys and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, as well as contemporary pratice, such as "The Multpile Store."
Artists' Multiples: 1935-2000 is an illustrated and chronologically arranged catalogue of over 800 multiples produced between 1935 and 2000. It provides a wide selection of different approaches by artists to the medium and includes a chronology, glossary and detailed bibliography are also included.
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