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Mark Dion

Mark Dion
Author: Ruth Erickson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300224079

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A comprehensive survey of American artist Mark Dion, examining three decades of his critically engaged practice interrogating our relationship with nature The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists expanding institutional critique in the 1990s, Dion adopted the methods of the archaeologist or the natural history museum, juxtaposing natural objects, taxidermy, books, and more to reorganize the natural and the manmade in poetic, witty ways. These sculptures, installations, and interventions offer novel approaches to questioning institutional power, which he sees as connected to the control and representation of nature. Generously illustrated, this publication introduces new insights and features more than seventy-five artworks. Essays address topics ranging from Dion's ecological activism to his loving critique of museums. A diverse group of contributors explores his work as a teacher, his public artworks such as Neukom Vivarium in Seattle, and his intricate curiosity cabinets installed throughout the world. They reveal how Dion's practice and formal investigations--which are rooted in history--connect to contemporary questions of disciplinary boundaries and the acquisition of knowledge in the age of the Anthropocene.


Theatre of the Natural World

Theatre of the Natural World
Author: Mark Dion
Publisher: Whitechapel Gallery
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2018
Genre: ART
ISBN: 9780854882632

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Accompanying his first major UK exhibition in a decade, this unique publication focuses on five works by the American conceptual artist Mark Dion. Since the late 1980s Dion (b. 1961, Massachusetts) has been delving into the tropes and research methods of scientists, explorers, museum curators and archaeologists. He has created a body of work that playfully presents art as scientific enquiry or field work, questioning how knowledge is gathered, classified and displayed. Five installations will be displayed at Whitechapel Gallery: a scholar's study invites us to unravel intricate drawings and models; the Bureau for the Centre of the Study for Surrealism and its Legacy displays the strange magic of obsolete things; the muddy banks of the Thames have also yielded their treasures for poetic display in a gigantic cabinet; while a Dickensian Curiosity Shop tempts us with the bizarre aura of American bric-a-brac. Each immersive environment is also a habitat, evoking the characters that observe, conserve or exploit the natural world. The catalogue features new short essays on each of the exhibited works, an interview between the artist and Iwona Blazwick and a reprint of a short story by National Book Award for Fiction winner Andrea Barrett.


The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion
Author: Mark Dion
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300246196

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In this dazzling expeditionary volume, Mark Dion investigates the layered history of the Lone Star State.


The Culture of Nature

The Culture of Nature
Author: Alexander Wilson
Publisher: Between The Lines
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1991
Genre: Human beings
ISBN: 0921284527

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In this celebrated work, Alexander Wilson examines environments built over the past fifty years, as humans have continued to discover, exploit, protect, restore, and sometimes re-enchant a natural world in convulsion. Extensively illustrated.


The Marvelous Museum: Orphans, Curiosities & Treasures

The Marvelous Museum: Orphans, Curiosities & Treasures
Author: Oakland Museum of California
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780811874519

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What is the role of the museum in contemporary society? Using the Oakland Museum of California as a case study, artist Mark Dion examines how museum practices have shifted over time, what these changes mean for objects in museum collections, and what we can learn about our culture from what's included and what's abandoned. Enclosed in a clamshell case and featuring fourteen specimen cards, this deluxe volume brings the reader into Dion's process and reveals how the order of images can change one's perception of objects. Contributions from celebrated writers, including Lawrence Weschler and D. Graham Burnett, articulate Dion's unique power of examination.


Mark Dion

Mark Dion
Author: Mark Dion
Publisher: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2003-01
Genre: Art
ISBN:

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Artwork by Mark Dion. Contributions by Brie Edwards. Text by Richard Klein.


Concrete Jungle

Concrete Jungle
Author: Mark Dion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems. An exploration into the results of what happens when urban and human environments intersect with each other.


Exploratory Works

Exploratory Works
Author: Mark Dion
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780942324600

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Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered

Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered
Author: Mark Dion
Publisher: John Bartram Association
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780615257488

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Combining humor and seriousness, this picture-filled book beautifully documents an artistic collaboration across more than two centuries. The 18th-century naturalist/artist William Bartram is renowned for hisTravels, a volume recounting his 1770s trip through the American Southeast and for his revelatory drawings. Mark Dion is a contemporary artist famous for working with historical and museum collections, and for site-specific displays that mimic the historical exhibits surrounding them. Commissioned for the landmark John Bartram house at Philadelphia's Bartram's Garden, the "Travels Reconsidered" exhibition and Dion's 21st-century journey that produced it are evoked inTravels of William Bartram - Reconsidered, a book filled with copious photographs, drawings, and texts. Essays by the organizing art curator and an art critic; the first history of Bartram's Garden published in 50 years, by its Resident Bartram Scholar; and excerpts from Mark Dion's travel diary and reproductions of letters and texts about the project and its people make this book a treasure trove of exploration that encompasses different times, spaces, and ideas of natural history and art. Distributed by Temple University Press for The John Bartram Association