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Paul Thek in Process

Paul Thek in Process

by Harald Szeemann and Susanne Neubauer
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/01/2013

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In 1971, Harald Szeemann invited the American sculptor and installation pioneer Paul Thek to contribute to Documenta 5. Szeemann had named one section of the Documenta "Individual Mythologies," describing a new kind of art structured around a mythology invented by individual artists, rather than by a culture. Thek's contribution--the now legendary "Pyramid" installation--came to be seen as the supreme example of Individual Mythology, and is one of Thek's best known works (Documenta 5 is likewise among the most famous of all Documentas to date). Paul Thek in Process stems from an unrealized publication that Thek had hoped to produce for Documenta 5, which would enlarge upon the occasion and the mythology of his "Pyramid." It comprises a trove of previously unpublished photographs recording the installation at Moderna Museet in 1971-72, all of the surviving correspondence between Thek and the museum, work-related ephemera and press coverage of the work.
ISBN:
9783037642535
9783037642535
Category:
Non-graphic art forms
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-01-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
JRP Ringier Kunstverlag AG
Country of origin:
Switzerland
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x157.48x10.16mm
Weight:
0.29kg

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