Retracing the Expanded Field - 9780262027595

Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few ofthe terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and architecture during the last thirty-fiveyears. If modernists invented the model of an ostensible "synthesis of the arts," theirpostmodern progeny promoted the semblance of pluralist fusion. In 1979, reacting againstcontemporary art's transformation of modernist medium-specificity into postmodernist mediummultiplicity, the art historian Rosalind Krauss published an essay, "Sculpture in the ExpandedField," that laid out in a precise diagram the structural parameters of sculpture,architecture, and landscape art. Krauss tried to clarify what these art practices were, what theywere not, and what they could become if logically combined. The essay soon assumed a canonicalstatus and affected subsequent developments in all three fields. Retracing the ExpandedField revisits Krauss's hugely influential text and maps the ensuing interactions betweenart and architecture. Responding to Krauss and revisiting the milieu from which her text emerged,artists, architects, and art historians of different generations offer their perspectives on thelegacy of "Sculpture in the Expanded Field." Krauss herself takes part in a roundtablediscussion (moderated by Hal Foster). A selection of historical documents, including Krauss's essay,presented as it appeared in October, accompany the main text. Neither eulogy nor hagiography,Retracing the Expanded Field documents the groundbreaking nature of Krauss'sauthoritative text and reveals the complex interchanges between art and architecture thatincreasingly shape both fields.

ContributorsStan Allen, GeorgeBaker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin Buchloh, Beatriz Colomina, Penelope Curtis, Sam Durant, EdwardEigen, Kurt W. Forster, Hal Foster, Kenneth Frampton, Branden W. Joseph, Rosalind Krauss, MiwonKwon, Sylvia Lavin, Sandro Marpillero, Josiah McElheny, Eve Meltzer, Michael Meredith, Mary Miss,Sarah Oppenheimer, Matthew Ritchie, Julia Robinson, Joe Scanlan, Emily Eliza Scott, Philip Ursprung,Anthony Vidler