Rock My Religion

Writings and Projects 1965-1990

Dan Graham, Roger Conover

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MIT Press
25 July 1994

Individual artists, art monographs; Literary essays; Cultural studies

Series: Writing Art

Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.

Dan Graham's artworks and critical writings have had an enormous influence on the course of contemporary art over the past quarter century. Rock My Religion collects eighteen of Graham's essays from all periods of his work, beginning with his essays on minimalist artists such as Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, continuing with his writings on punk rock and popular culture, and concluding with his more recent considerations of architecture, urban space, and power.

Alternating with these theoretical essays are descriptions and documentations of Graham's own works and installations-projects that trace his explorations in conceptual art, video, photography, architecture, and public sculpture, showing the integral connections between Graham's criticism and his own artwork. Although as an artist Graham has been associated with minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism, his writing does not conform to the stylistic and theoretical constraints of any specific movement. With sources and topics ranging from Ronald Reagan to the Sex Pistols, from Michel Foucault to Dean Martin, Graham's eclectic investigations into the complex cultural relationships between art production and social reality are always strikingly original. What makes these writings particularly astonishing, though, is Graham's willingness to examine specific manifestations of popular culture (television, magazines, rock and roll, drugs) without regard to traditional qualitative judgments and without separating ""high"" or ""low"" culture from the processes of everyday life.

Edited by: Dan Graham
Series edited by: Roger Conover
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 975g
ISBN: 9780262571067
ISBN 10: 0262571064
Series: Writing Art
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 25 July 1994
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Adult education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dan Graham's artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His writings have appeared in Artforum, Arts, and numerous other magazines, books, and monographs.

Reviews for Rock My Religion: Writings and Projects 1965-1990

You don't need to be a fan of Dan Graham's work to get something from this book. You don't even have to know who Dan Graham is. . . . Graham looks at contemporary social practices from some pretty unusual perspectives, the combination of which feels like an intellectual carnival. --Christina Ritchie, Artpaper