Dan Graham
Figurative, 1965
magazine version, published in Harper’s Bazaar, March 1968
31.4 cm x 24.1 cm (closed)
signed
ESTIMATE: $3,000
Born 1942, Urbana, Illinois. Lives and works in New York.
New York artist Dan Graham (b 1942) is one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. His early diagrams and photo-text magazine pieces from the 1960s have become landmarks of Conceptual Art. From the 1960s his work started to include critical writing about art, architecture, and television culture, and performances exploring self-awareness, architectural space and group behavior. Since the 1980s, Graham has been working on an ongoing series of freestanding, sculptural objects called pavilions.
Figurative (1965; published March 1968) is a cash-register receipt printed in Harper’s Bazaar, which the magazine’s art directors, Ruth Ansel and Bea Feitler, memorably placed between ads for Tampax and for a padded, torpedo-shaped bra (“If nature didn’t, Warner’s will”) Figurative and other self-published magazine advertisements including Schema (1965) and Detumescence (1966), preceded Graham’s landmark photo-essay, Homes for America published in Arts Magazine in 1966. These works intended to short-circuit the cycle of art and art publications by locating artworks within popular print media.
Dan Graham most recent retrospective exhibition was held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Whitney Musuem of American Art in 2009. In 2001, a major retrospective, “Dan Graham, Works 1965-2000,” opened at the Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal. He is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery and Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich.
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