Nothing in MoMA
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 compos...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
punctum books
2021
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | 1004674 |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1869522474979295232 |
|---|---|
| author | Adams, Abraham |
| author_browse | Adams, Abraham |
| author_facet | Adams, Abraham |
| author_sort | Adams, Abraham |
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | 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. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-27918 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2021 |
| publishDateRange | 2021 |
| publishDateSort | 2021 |
| publisher | punctum books |
| publisherStr | punctum books |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-279182025-07-21T15:58:13Z Nothing in MoMA Adams, Abraham conceptual art museology photography void studies architecture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:38:43Z 2018 book 1004674 OCN: 1100491852 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25421 9781947447769 9781947447752 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27918 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25421/1/1004674.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25421/1/1004674.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25421/1/1004674.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25421/1/1004674.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25421/1/1004674.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0208.1.00 10.21983/P3.0208.1.00 12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1 9781947447769 9781947447752 ScholarLed 90 Brooklyn, NY open access |
| spellingShingle | conceptual art museology photography void studies architecture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers Adams, Abraham Nothing in MoMA |
| title | Nothing in MoMA |
| title_full | Nothing in MoMA |
| title_fullStr | Nothing in MoMA |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nothing in MoMA |
| title_short | Nothing in MoMA |
| title_sort | nothing in moma |
| topic | conceptual art museology photography void studies architecture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers |
| topic_facet | conceptual art museology photography void studies architecture thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers |
| url | 1004674 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT adamsabraham nothinginmoma |