Foreword and Introduction by Emily Wei Rales. Essay by Jack Bankowsky.

No Substitute features twelve artists who have, since the late 1970s, turned away from modernist ideals of formalism to question the authenticity and autonomy of art. These artists explore the fine line between truth and fiction in photography and sculpture, borrowing imagery and visual strategies from mass media, film, art history, and their everyday surroundings. Yet however much it may appear otherwise, the works in No Substitute are not mere copies. Their makers go to painstaking lengths to alter, augment, and transform their source material, destabilizing long-held notions of originality and authorship, and expressing ambivalence about the status of the art object as a commodity. The works included here inhabit an enigmatic space between reality and artifice, territory both provocative and fertile for artists in the postmodern world.

Publisher: Glenstone Museum
ISBN: 978980108620
Publication date: 2011
Page count: 136