The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now

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February 18, 2009

Rudolf Frieling, ed. The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now Exh. cat. San Francisco and London: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Thames and Hudson, 2008. 212 pp.; 200 ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780500238585)

Exhibition schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 8, 2008–February 8, 2009

Terri Cohn

CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.17

Lygia Clark. Diálogo: Óculos (Dialogue: Goggles) (1968). Modified diving goggles, metal, and mirror. 3 × 7 × 11 1/2 in. Clark Family Collection, Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Eduardo Clark. Courtesy “The World of Lygia Clark” Cultural Association. © 2008 “The World of Lygia Clark” Cultural Association.

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Joseph Beuys famously proposed that, “every human being is an artist” (Joseph Beuys, “I Am Searching for Field Character,” in Art into Society, Society into Art, trans. Caroline Tisdall, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1974, 48). How, then, do we understand the relationship between artists and audience? The Art of Participation, an extremely ambitious, multifaceted exhibition and catalogue by Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, provides numerous...