Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Speaker: Alex J. Taylor
This paper explores the sculpture of Haim Steinbach through the prism of All About Decorating, an obscure interior decoration coffee table book from the 1970s with which several of artist’s works engage. Recovering the participatory, collaborative projects that represented Steinbach’s earliest experimentation with the shelf form, I emphasize the social engagements of Steinbach’s practice in ways that complicate critical accounts of his work as ‘commodity sculpture.’ This paper is for ‘Political Values, Market Values, Art Values: The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s’, a forthcoming conference at Princeton University (see https://princetonartconf2020.princeton.edu), and I am looking forward to the department’s feedback from what will be its first presentation.
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Image: Haim Steinbach, exuberant relative #1, 1986