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dc.contributor.authorAdams, Abraham
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23 14:09:07
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:38:43Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:38:43Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier1004674
dc.identifierOCN: 1100491852en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25421
dc.description.abstractNothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the “grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking,” in the words of art historian David Joselit’s introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children’s board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing in MoMA is here collected for the first time in the series’ entirety. Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams’s photographs likewise recalls François Jullien’s theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. Both a visual essay on museum phenomenology and a performance document, Nothing in MoMA describes a choreography of avoidance, in which a conceptual constraint becomes a means of seeing and navigating concrete space.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographersen_US
dc.subject.otherconceptual art
dc.subject.othermuseology
dc.subject.otherphotography
dc.subject.othervoid studies
dc.subject.otherarchitecture
dc.titleNothing in MoMA
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0208.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13
oapen.relation.isbn9781947447769
oapen.relation.isbn9781947447752
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages90
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NY
oapen.identifier.ocn1100491852


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