Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. Cloth, xii, 423 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: The beginning of a complex; Aycock on her family: facts into myths; Incarnating thought as baby boomer, cold war soldier, and '60s radical; From minimalism to the future; Cresting the minimalist/postminimalist divide; M.A. thesis: the highway network; Early work: projecting art into viewer's spaces and the world, the aesthetics of danger, and the synergy of 112 Greene Street; Maze, 1972; Low building with dirt roof (for Mary), 1973; Feminism; Drawing on patriarchal order while deflecting it; Architectural sculpture; Site specificity; Architectural sculpture as suprastruction; Borges's tear and Aycock's rip; The true and the false project: embodied and disembodied seeing: phenomenology and schizophrenia; "The beginning of a complex.": for documenta; Writerly texts and schizophrenia; Virtual space, medieval legacies, and architectural sculpture; From architectural sculpture to The machine that makes the world; How to catch and manufacture ghosts; The art of memory in the age of artificial intelligence; Enmeshed in wisdom's nets; Sophistry and postmodernism.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.