WT Library

Return to Function

Author(s): Simon, Jane\Schwendener, Martha\Fleischman, Stephen\Barak, Ami

Pages: 96

Year: 2009

Publisher: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Return-Function-Jane-Simon/dp/0913883352%3FSubscripti…

ISBN: 913883352

Abstract: Return to Function surveys contemporary artists who make functional objects that verge on 'the designed'--from vehicles to clothes to mobile studio units--which happily confirm that the once-firm line between fine art and the applied arts is indeed dissolving. These artists--Jules De Balincourt, Claire Fontaine, Francois Curlet, Fabrice Hyber, J. Morgan Puett, Michael Rakowitz, Joe Scanlan, Franck Scurti, Ricardo Miranda Zuniga and others--make objects that are simultaneously critical and practical. By choosing to create objects that meet utilitarian criteria, they show that artworks can be a part of the larger social, political and economic fabric. This volume features an in-depth discussion of seminal artists working in this vein, including Lucy Orta, Andrea Zittel and Jorge Pardo.

Location: Arnhem

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