"Kenneth Josephson: A Retrospective".ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by A first-generation product of the seminal photography program set up by Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) was an American abstract expressionist photographer. In his biography he wrote that he began his foray into photography when he received a camera for a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. at the Illinois Institute of Design, Kenneth Josephson, now sixty-seven, gets retrospective treatment at the institution where he taught for thirty-five years. Is the Windy City veteran, best known for his "photographs about photography," ripe for revisioning in light of contemporary tastes? Maybe; but his images, firmly bound to the old formalist for·mal·ism n. 1. Rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms, as in religion or art. 2. An instance of rigorous or excessive adherence to recognized forms. 3. ethos and look of institutional art photography, were never as witty or as plugged-in as those of '70s-syle LA conceptualists like Robert Cumming and John Baldessari John Baldessari, (b. June 17 1931, National City, California) is a conceptual artist. His work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art theory and practices or reduce it to absurdity. His art has been featured in more than 120 solo exhibitions in the U.S. . How loudly does Josephson's art speak today? This selection of 125 works will test the case. Sept. 25, 1999-Jan. 16, 2000. |
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