Intermedia

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Intermedia explores the history of innovative American art practices that blur conventional boundaries between different media. Beginning with Dick Higgins' 1965 concept of intermedia—where artworks fuse various, often nontraditional forms—the book traces how this fluid artistic approach reflects broader social changes and challenges established categories. Through essays examining nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art and culture, the volume presents intermedia as a dynamic system of exchange, highlighting experimental and cross-disciplinary artistic expressions.
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Ideal for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of contemporary art, media theory, and cultural studies interested in the evolution of artistic practices that transcend traditional media classifications.

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The history of innovative intermedia art practices in America.

In 1965, American artist and Fluxus cofounder Dick Higgins stated that much of the best art being made at the time fell between media. He linked the dismantling of divisions among media to decompartmentalization in society and the impending dawn of a “classless” society. After high art, he wrote, came the deluge brought on by Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades, Robert Rauschenberg’s combines, and Alan Kaprow’s happenings.

Intermedia, the term Higgins selected to describe this trend, referred to works of art that fuse different, often nontraditional, media. In intermedia, boundaries between mediums dissolve and new mediums emerge. Never a prescriptive term, intermedia remains fluid, both as an artistic practice and an art historical category.

The essays in this volume consider a range of subjects from nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art and visual culture, exploring instances of intermedia within specific cultural, social, and historical contexts and in relation to theories of media, image-making, and materiality. They present a rich account of American artistic practice as an open system of medial interrelation and exchange, highlighting experimental cross-pollinations and mutations among artistic forms.

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ISBN: 9780932171702

Publisher: Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Terra Foundation for the Arts,U.S.

Illustration: 82 color plates

Contributors:

Contributions by Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Edited by Ursula Frohne
Edited by Rachael Delue
Contributions by Eva Ehninger
Contributions by Maggie Cao
Contributions by Michelle Smiley
Contributions by Natilee Harren
Contributions by Sebastian Egenhofer

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 171.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 739g

Pages: 176

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Terra Foundation Essays

About the Author

Ursula Frohne is professor of art history at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Rachael DeLue is the Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. She is editor of Picturing and the author, most recently, of Arthur Dove: Always Connect.

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