DESIGN AND ART /ANGLAIS

Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art

by Alex Coles

Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies .

This title comprehensively surveys and looks beyond the phenomenon of "designart" that has emerged since the Pop and Minimalist cutting edge, hybrid practices that blur traditional boundaries between art, architecture, graphics and product design. Key debates about form and function, the everyday, the collective and the utopian are contextualized historically and theoretically by leading practitioners and critics from both the art and the design worlds.

Contributors include David Bourdon, Peter Cook/Archigram, Douglas Coupland, Kees Dorst, Charles Eames, Experimental Jetset, Vilém Flusser, Hal Foster, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Clement Greenberg, Richard Hamilton, Donald Judd, Frederick Kiesler, Miwon Kwon, Maria Lind, M/M, N55, George Nelson, Lucy Orta, Jorge Pardo, Norman Potter, Rick Poynor, Paul Rand, Tobias Rehberger, Ed Ruscha, Joe Scanlan, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Superflex, Manfredo Tafuri, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Paul Virilio, Joep van Lieshout, Andy Warhol, Benjamin Weil, Mark Wigley and Andrea Zittel.

Genres: Design, Art

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2007

Reviews

[Jimmy]

i think i really like this new series...this one is an edited collection of contemporary essays about the tension between "design" and "art"....something everyone's always getting their design and art panties into a wad about. most of the essays are pretty relevant, but the design of the book itself is pretty awful...but it's good to see books like this in print, since it's such a contemporary topic, and there aren't too many books specifically about this topic out there...