{"product_id":"9780975985731","title":"Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her foreword to the book, Black Box: Decoding the Art Work of Martin Gantman, the noted art historian and artist, Dr. Lise Patt, writes the following:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMartin Gantman grew his artistic bones during the last throes of modernism, when art’s autonomy had already been undermined and all that \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eremained of this enduring style were the simple, clean lines of formalism. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe cut his intellectual teeth on conceptualism, a short-lived art movement with long-ranging impact on art’s raison d’être; and developed his \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003evisual muscle in the warren of ‘posts-’ that were coined during the 1980s \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eto lessen history’s stranglehold on art’s discourses, institutions, and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003epractices. Yet, by the time Gantman hit his stride as a visual artist he had \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ealready severed many of the ties that tethered him to these varied movements. If, in 1913, Duchamp drew a line in modernism’s sandbox, then by \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe 1990s Martin Gantman had crossed that line to become a contemporary artist, a practitioner who disavows history and any long-standing art \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ehistorical style with work that analyses the status of art and the state of the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eworld as they both exist in the here and now.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book describes the theoretical bases, process, and development of the artist, Martin Gantman, through an almost 40-year span of art production. It details the evolution of his practice through 10 individual books, each based on a theoretical or practical interest that compelled him during his years of production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin Gantman Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029404991728,"sku":"9780975985731","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780975985731_p0.jpg?v=1763872962","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780975985731","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}