The Described The Undescribed
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the rarefied world of contemporary art, few voices are as singular and quietly commanding as that of Robert MacPherson, and The Described the Undescribed, curated by Ingrid Periz, stands as a compelling testament to that fact. This catalogue-style publication chronicles MacPherson's deeply conceptual practice, which pivots on the tension between language and the visual — where text becomes image and image becomes a form of inscription. MacPherson, an Australian artist of considerable renown, presents works that inhabit the boundary between what can be named and what stubbornly resists articulation, creating an experience that is as intellectually rigorous as it is visually arresting. Periz's curatorial framing gives the work an additional critical dimension, situating MacPherson's oeuvre within broader discourses of conceptual art, representation, and the limits of description itself. His practice, spanning painting, text-based works, and found materials, argues that meaning is always provisional — constructed in the act of looking and undone in the same breath. For readers drawn to the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and visual culture, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to describe the indescribable?
Author: Robert Macpherson
Format: Paperback
Published: 1994, AGNSW
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the rarefied world of contemporary art, few voices are as singular and quietly commanding as that of Robert MacPherson, and The Described the Undescribed, curated by Ingrid Periz, stands as a compelling testament to that fact. This catalogue-style publication chronicles MacPherson's deeply conceptual practice, which pivots on the tension between language and the visual — where text becomes image and image becomes a form of inscription. MacPherson, an Australian artist of considerable renown, presents works that inhabit the boundary between what can be named and what stubbornly resists articulation, creating an experience that is as intellectually rigorous as it is visually arresting. Periz's curatorial framing gives the work an additional critical dimension, situating MacPherson's oeuvre within broader discourses of conceptual art, representation, and the limits of description itself. His practice, spanning painting, text-based works, and found materials, argues that meaning is always provisional — constructed in the act of looking and undone in the same breath. For readers drawn to the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and visual culture, this volume poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to describe the indescribable?