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In 1968, Robert Smithson reacted to Michael Fried's influential essay "Art and Objecthoodż with a series of works called non-sites. While Fried described the spectator's connection with a work of art as a momentary visual engagement, Smithson's non-sites asked spectators to do something more: to take time looking, walking, seeing, reading, and thinking about the combination of objects, images, and texts installed in a gallery. In Beyond Objecthood, James Voorhies traces a genealogy of spectatorship through the rise of the exhibition as a critical formżand artistic medium. Artists like Smithson, Group Material, and Michael Asher sought to reconfigure and expand the exhibition and the museum into something more active, open, and democratic, by inviting spectators into new and unexpected encounters with works of art and institutions. This practice was sharply critical of the ingrained characteristics long associated with art institutions and conventional exhibition-making; and yet, Voorhies finds, over time the critique has been diluted by efforts of the very institutions that now gravitate to the "participatory.ż

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Beyond Objecthood
• Author: James Voorhies
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780262035521
• ISBN: 0262035529
• ID: 14423267
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 854 g
• Dimensions: 245 × 177 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. February 2017

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