Ion Grigorescu Diaries and Dreams, 1976-1979
| Author | Various |
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| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| ISBN | 9783956794001 |
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In recent years, the work of Ion Grigorescu, one of the seminal Eastern European visual artists of his generation, has attracted increasing attention in the West. This volume is the second of his translated diaries—the first from 1970 to 1975 was published in 2014 by Sternberg Press—and is assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979. It not only counters the facile reading of Grigorescu’s practice in the context of Conceptual art and performance art, but provides insight into the artist’s multifocal thinking, which incorporates an original critique of modernism, the dystopian effects of an instrumentalized idea of reason and rationality, an analysis of subjectivity, and a penetrating gaze into a dialectic of secrecy and elucidation, of exposure and mystification.
| 352 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, hb, English |
€33.50
Product number:
idea41394
