Metaphorical Materialism : Art in New York in the Late 1960s.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction: Materiality as a Material -- 1 Metaphorical Materialism -- 2 Materiality from the Side of Art -- 3 Materiality from the Side of Materialism -- Chapter 1 Carl Andre's Materialism -- 1 The 'Materialism' of the Rain -- 2 A Simple Array Dictated by a Property of the First Particle -- 3 Labour is the Living Fire That Shapes the Pattern -- 4 The Innocence of Matter -- Chapter 2 Cinders: Robert Smithson -- 1 'Cinders' -- 2 The Fringes … the Cold Walks … -- 3 Materialism Inverted -- 4 Meaningless Reverberations -- Chapter 3 Process and Reality in Richard Serra's Early Work -- 1 Forms of Process -- 2 Anti Form -- 3 In-formation -- 4 Process within and without the Labour Process -- Chapter 4 Eva Hesse, Feeling and Form -- 1 Feeling and Form -- 2 A Closed Material Individuality -- 3 Everything is Process -- 4 Matter That Bodies -- Chapter 5 Statement and Action in Lawrence Weiner's Conceptual Art -- 1 Statements and Actions -- 2 Statement and Action in Language -- 3 The Politics of Reference -- Conclusion -- 1 Materials in Particular and Materiality in General -- 2 Form and Material -- Bibliography -- Index.

Metaphorical Materialism: Art in New York in the Late 1960s is a volume of essays on the relationship between materiality and materialism in the work of Carl Andre, Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Lawrence Weiner.

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