Foreword and Introduction by Emily Wei Rales. Essay by Jeffrey Weiss.

This catalogue accompanies Glenstone’s second exhibition, If We Could Imagine, which features painting, sculpture, and photography by American and European artists from the Glenstone collection dating from 1959 to 1989. It examines the trajectory of overlapping aesthetic tendencies including Process art, Arte Povera, and Conceptual art through the work of artists from disparate backgrounds who shared an interest in unconventional materials, irreverence for traditional rules governing art, emphasis on retaining marks of process, and increased concern for how the viewer perceives art. The exhibition owes its title to a 1969 work by Mel Bochner consisting of a painting executed by the artist directly on the wall. In borrowing Bochner’s title, the exhibition echoes the sense of wonderment that viewers and critics were experiencing in their confrontation with the radical development taking place in art during this time.

Publisher: Glenstone Museum
ISBN: 9780980108613
Publication date: 2009
Page count: 140