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Mark Dion : misadventures of a 21st-century naturalist

Erickson, Ruth, author, curator, Flint-Gohlke, Lucy, editor, Dion, Mark, 1961- artist, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.), host institution, publisher

2017

Overview

A comprehensive survey of American artist Mark Dion, examining three decades of his critically engaged practice interrogating our relationship with nature The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists expanding institutional critique in the 1990s, Dion adopted the methods of the archaeologist or the natural history museum, juxtaposing natural objects, taxidermy, books, and more to reorganize the natural and the manmade in poetic, witty ways. These sculptures, installations, and interventions offer novel approaches to questioning institutional power, which he sees as connected to the control and representation of nature. Generously illustrated, this publication introduces new insights and features more than seventy-five artworks.

• Publisher: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; In association with Yale University Press
• Subject: Dion, Mark, 1961- Exhibitions. / Installations (Art) Exhibitions. / Conceptual art United States 20th century Exhibitions. / Conceptual art United States 21st century Exhibitions. / Nature (Aesthetics) Exhibitions. / Art and natural history Exhibitions.
• ISBN: 9780300224078, 0300224079

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N6537.D54 E75 2017	1	BOOK	ARTS