Walter De Maria
Meaningless Work
Distributed for Reaktion Books
224 pages
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30 color plates, 48 halftones
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7 1/2 x 9 3/4
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© 2016
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
One: Infamous Photographs
Two: Towards Site
Three: Sculpture as Stranger
Four: Sites Unseen
Five: There not Here
Six: History Sculpture
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Two: Towards Site
Three: Sculpture as Stranger
Four: Sites Unseen
Five: There not Here
Six: History Sculpture
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Review Quotes
Jason Rosenfeld | Brooklyn Rail
"A compelling new study."
Matthew Simms, California State University, Long Beach
“McFadden’s book is a brilliant reassessment of the art and career one of the most independent-minded American artists of the post-war generation. Although De Maria’s Lightning Field has dominated accounts of his art, McFadden shows that this seminal piece was only one of a number of ways in which the artist deftly played in the spaces between immediacy and mediation, between the ping of firsthand experience and the iterative strategies of intermedia.”
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