Electric Op

An English/French bilingual volume that traces the enduring legacy of geometric abstraction through the last six decades...
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Author: Tina Rivers Ryan
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Language: English
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Electric Op by Ryan, Tina Rivers

Electric Op

BD$90.34

Electric Op

BD$90.34
Author: Tina Rivers Ryan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

An English/French bilingual volume that traces the enduring legacy of geometric abstraction through the last six decades of electronic art and culture.

One of the most popular artistic styles of the twentieth century, Op art transformed European geometric abstraction into a global phenomenon in the mid-1960s. Its disorienting patterns and illusions, rendered with machine-like precision, became icons of the futuristic Space Age. As the 1960s faded, Op became a short-lived fad, dismissed by art historians and critics as visual kitsch. Over the last 15 years, however, many museums have re-introduced Op to audiences who enthusiastically embrace it as a reflection of contemporary life. Emerging at precisely the same time as mainstream video technologies and the modern digital computer, Op helped shape the aesthetics of electronic media, becoming the first artistic movement of the Information Age.

Juxtaposing plates of approximately 123 artworks by 88 international artists and collectives from the 1960s to the present (including Victor Vasarely, Vera Molnar, Lillian Schwartz, JODI, Ryoji Ikeda, and Cory Arcangel), Electric Op offers a scholarly re-evaluation of the legacy of abstraction and the surprisingly intertwined histories of contemporary and digital art. It is also a blockbuster of dazzling works that appeal to all ages, including iconic masterpieces alongside rarely-seen gems. Outstanding works from the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Mus?e d'arts de Nantes are supplemented with key loans from other major museums, private collections, and artists.



Author: Tina Rivers Ryan, Lindsay Caplan, Zsofi Valyi-Nagy
Publisher: Giles
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.65lbs
Size: 12.20h x 10.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781913875695

About the Author
Tina Rivers Ryan is a curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, New York. Lindsay Caplan is assistant professor of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Zsofi Valyi-Nagy is an artist and postdoctoral scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Jacob Gaboury is an associate professor of Film & Media at the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in the seventy year history of digital image technologies.

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