Afterimage: Drawing Through Process; Author: Butler, Cornelia H.; Paperback

Author: Butler, Cornelia H.
Paperback; 45 Colour and 45 B&w Illustrations
152 pages
Published: June 1999
The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262522624

The term process art describes a moment of radical, aformal experimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium of drawing, Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists who defined the movement and suggests a transitional moment when many of its practitioners anticipated the feminist and postminimalist art of the 1970s. Nancy Grossman's use of language, for example, suggests a kind of material abstraction, and Nancy Holt's earth works and related drawings introduced content into a minimalist vocabulary. The book also explores the drawing as a residual object in works in which the process of making dictates the form of the drawing. Examples include Gordon Matta-Clark's stacked cuttings, Robert Morris' blind time drawings, and Sol Lewitt's folded constAn exploration of the role of drawings in the experimental process art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The term process art describes a moment of radical experimentation in postwar American sculpture. The book revisits process art in terms of the artists who defined the movement, and suggests a transitional moment when many of its practitioners anticipated the postminimalist art of the 1970s.