{"product_id":"9783037641934","title":"Allan McCollum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first \u003ci\u003eSurrogate Paintings\u003c\/i\u003e (1978-82) to his \u003ci\u003eIndividual Works\u003c\/i\u003e (1987-89) or recent \u003ci\u003eShapes Project\u003c\/i\u003e(since 2005), through his famous series of \u003ci\u003ePlaster Surrogates\u003c\/i\u003e (begun in 1982), \u003ci\u003ePerpetual Photos\u003c\/i\u003e (since 1981) and \u003ci\u003ePerfect Vehicles\u003c\/i\u003e (since 1986), McCollum has revealed art's mechanisms as a status-generating economy. In the 1990s, his “art objects” were replaced by found objects belonging to a situated context and community, in an effort to explore local micro-politics and to develop projects with specific milieus. His use of multiples, of museums and display aesthetics as compositional elements, all stem from this displacement of context. Working with regional museums, heterogeneous audiences, and references going from paleontology to mineralogy, McCollum today has built a truly unique and intriguing body of work that receives its first comprehensive overview in this monograph.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JRP Ringier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044569661680,"sku":"9783037641934","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783037641934_p0.jpg?v=1763711552","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783037641934","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}