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Record Nr.

UNINA9910315231803321

Autore

Adams Abraham (Artist)

Titolo

Nothing in MoMA / / Abraham Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2018

[Santa Barbara, California] : ; Earth, Milky Way : , : punctum books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

9781947447769

1947447769

9781947447752

1947447750

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (92 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Disciplina

779.092

Soggetti

Photography, Artistic

Individual photographers

New York (State) New York Art museums

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Nothing 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.