Alexander Alberro

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Alexander Alberro (born December 8, 1957 ) is an American art critic and professor of art history .

Alberro received his Bachelor (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees from the University of British Columbia in 1990 for his work entitled The turning of the screw: the Sixth Guggenheim International Exhibition, Daniel Buren, and the new cultural conservatism , in which deals in particular with the Guggenheim's censorship against Daniel Buren . The academic degree Ph.D. he received from Northwestern University .

He writes art history books and essays, is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity and co-authored Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology with art historian Blake Stimson . Both are also the editors of the volume Institutional Critique , published in 2009, which, based on the anti-authoritarian movement of the 1960s and 1970s, sheds light on how institutional criticism is expressed in the museum and art market as an artistic attitude. B. Broodthaers or Buren.

Alberro was a professor of art history at the University of Florida and is now the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College at Columbia University , New York City . Here he teaches modern and contemporary art , especially conceptual art , as well as the history of photography.

Fonts

  • Alexander Alberro: Conceptional Art and the Politics of Publicity. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2003, ISBN 978-0-262-01196-9 , Paperback 2004, ISBN 978-0-262-51184-1 .
  • Alexander Alberro (Ed.), Sabeth Buchmann (Ed.): Art after conceptual art. Generali Foundation. König, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-86560-137-7 .
  • Alexander Alberro: Contemporary Art, Publicity, and the Legacy of the Artistic Avant-Garde. In: Texts on Art . 2009, June, ISSN  0940-9459 , pp. 40-44, 92-94 (with German translation).
  • Alexander Alberro (Ed.), Blake Stimson (Ed.): Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2009, ISBN 978-0-262-01316-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cIRcle.ubc.ca , online: UBC_1990_A8 A42.pdf, 12.7MB
  2. ^ Book review: Peter Osborne: Hard sale .. - Conceptional Art and the Politics of Publicity. In: ArtForum, February 2003 , ArtForum. FindArticles.com. (English)
  3. ^ Book review: Elliot Reichert: Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. In: NAR Northwestern Art Review  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.northwesternartreview.org  
personal data
SURNAME Alberro, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art critic and professor of art history
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1957