Hardback, colour and black and white illustrations, 80 pages, W150mm x H225mm
When
does an artist's creation become art, and where? Does it occur in the
solitary confines of an artist's studio or does it require the context
of an art gallery's white cube? What is the relationship between these
two culturally charged spaces? How does the site of art's presentation
shape the meaning and determine even the very possibility of its
existence?
In
Studio and Cube O' Doherty tracks the relationship between artwork and artist
from Vermeer through late modernism. O'Doherty reflects on the
differing work spaces of Courbet, Matisse, Rothko, Bacon, Warhol, and
many others. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the
history and issues of art and the environment in which it is produced.