Inside the White Cube; The Ideology of Gallery Space

1999, the expanded edition of Brian O'Doherty's seminal critique of modern art display

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Expanded edition. Paperback with French flaps. 20.5 × 20.5cm, 113pp.

Inside the White Cube is the seminal critique of modern art display. O’Doherty argues that the "neutral" white-walled gallery is not neutral at all, but a sacred, isolated space designed to detach art from real-world context and commercialize it.

Contents: Introduction by Thomas McEvilley; I. Notes on the Gallery Space (originally published in Artforum, 1976); II. The Eye and the Spectator (originally published in Artforum, 1976); III. Context as Content (originally published in Artforum, 1976); IV. The Gallery as a Gesture (added for Lapis Press edition in 1986); Afterword by Brian O'Doherty.

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This copy in very good condition.