02604 am 22005053u 450 991031523180332120230621140802.09781947447769(ePDF)1947447769(ePDF)9781947447752(print)1947447750(print)10.21983/P3.0208.1.00(CKB)4100000007823983(OAPEN)1004674(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27918(EXLCZ)99410000000782398320200123h20182018 fy 0enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNothing in MoMA /Abraham AdamsBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2018[Santa Barbara, California] :Earth, Milky Way :punctum books,2018.©20181 online resource (92 pages) illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)Print version: 9781947447752 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.Photography, ArtisticIndividual photographersbicsscNew York (State)New YorkArt museumsconceptual artmuseologyphotographyvoid studiesarchitecturePhotography, Artistic.Individual photographers779.092Adams Abraham(Artist),author.954656UkMaJRU9910315231803321Nothing in MoMA2159343UNINA