A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968
Green Dragon Office, Los Angeles, California, 2004
Description
A maximal amount of minimalism: this book contains biographical essays on 40 or so artists, along with images of their work and a set of scholarly essays concentrating on different aspects of this work from the ’60s and ’70s. The problem with a book like this is the fact that most readers need an entry point into what is a very dense collection of information and interpretation, and we tried to build in spaces in the book for readers to be able to dip in and out of with ease. The other really interesting problem was the cover: how to make a cover out of a reproduction of a magazine cover, one that ended up providing the title for the exhibition. The slightly transparent silk-screening of the new title on top of the old title of the magazine on the cover works to clarify the difference between the new title and its source.
Credits
- Design firm
- Green Dragon Office
- Art director/creative director
- Lorraine Wild
- Designers
- Robert Ruehlman, Stuart Smith
- Jacket designer
- Green Dragon Office
- Photographer
- Various
- Production coordinator
- Lisa Mark
- Picture editor
- Ann Goldstein, et al.
- Author
- Ann Goldstein, et al.
- Editor
- Jane Hyun
- Publisher
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Trim size
- 8 3/4 x 11 inches
- Pages
- 452
- Quantity printed
- 6,350
- Compositor
- Green Dragon Office
- Typeface
- Officina Sans
- Printer
- Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei
- Jacket printer
- Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei
- Papers
- Werkdruck, Colorit, Luxosatin
- Binding method
- Hardcover, paperback (sewn)