| Description |
173 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction / Stephen Cleland & Blair French -- A conversation with Bruce Barber / Brad Buckley -- Found situations : 1970-1972 / Bruce Barber -- Bruce Barber in New Zealand 1970-1975 / Christina Barton -- Framing reading / Mark A. Cheetham -- Interview : 'Party without party' / Emma Bugden -- 'Squat II' and the operationalization of littoral art / Marc James Léger -- On seeing and (dis-)believing / Alex Gawronski -- Four times over : Bruce Barber's moving image / Laura Preston |
| Summary |
"Bruce Barber has worked across performance, installation, film, video and photography since the early 1970s, developing propositional and situational works that engage and question social and political regimes of power. Originally from Auckland where he studied at Elam School of Fine Arts in the early 1970s within the highly influential and experimental sculpture and intermedia programme, Barber has been based in Canada for three decades, retaining professional ties with New Zealand and Australia. Early in his career as an artist Barber was a pivotal and important figure in New Zealand post-object art, exploring new territory in performance and time-based practice. The impact of that period on current contemporary practice and thinking is immeasurable, as exhibitions and publications over the last decade have demonstrated, not just in New Zealand but in Australia and Canada as well." -- Introduction, p.7 |
| Notes |
Published following the occasion of the exhibition Bruce Barber: Reading and writing rooms at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, 14 Nov. - 14 Dec. 2008 and at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau, 13 Dec. 2008 - 18 Feb. 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Barber, Bruce -- Exhibitions.
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Barber, Bruce -- Career in art
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Barber, Bruce -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Barber, Bruce, 1950-
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Barber, Bruce.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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Artists -- New Zealand -- Exhibitions.
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Artists -- New Zealand.
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Conceptual art -- Exhibitions.
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Conceptual art -- New Zealand -- Exhibitions.
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Performance art -- Exhibitions.
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Performance art -- New Zealand -- Exhibitions.
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Performance art.
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| Genre/Form |
Video art.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Cleland, Stephen, editor
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French, Blair, 1967- editor
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Artspace (Sydney, N.S.W.), issuing body
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Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, issuing body
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| ISBN |
9781920781446 (paperback) |
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