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"Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965-2000".


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During the past three decades, Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (September 20, 1948) is a first-generation conceptual artist who began exhibiting her work internationally at the age of twenty and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1969. While continuing to produce and exhibit her artwork, she received a B.A.  has amassed both artistic and scholarly oeuvres (she moonlights as a neo-Kantian philosopher), though the intellectual underpinnings of the former are often indistinguishable from those of the latter. In Piper's highly influential art, tools both intellectual and artistic open up issues of racism, sexism, and the problematics of self. Curator Maurice Berger has selected some fifty objects, videos, and installations to bring out the complex pleasures of Piper's conceptualism conceptualism, in philosophy, position taken on the problem of universals, initially by Peter Abelard in the 12th cent. Like nominalism it denied that universals exist independently of the mind, but it held that universals have an existence in the mind as concept. . The catalogue includes essays by Berger, Kobena Mercer, and Jean Fisher. Oct. 14, 1999-Jan. 15, 2000; travel dates and venues to be announced To be announced (TBA)

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Date:Sep 1, 1999
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