Artists On On Kawara

Artists From Rene Green To Haim Steinbach Explore Themes Of Temporality And Absurdity In The Work Of On Kawarathis Is The Sixth Volume In A Series That Builds Upon Dia Art Foundations Artists On Artists Lectures. The Contributors To This Book Explore The Practice Of On Kawara (19322014) From Various Points Of Entry: Alejandro Cesarco Uses A Self-reflexive Approach To The Ideas Of Artistic Legacy, Influence And Work; Nancy Davenport Contends With Innocence And Trauma In Two Of Kawaras Most Influential Series; Rene Green Weaves A Poetic Relationship Between The Work Of Chantal Akerman And Kawara; Annette Lawrence Provides A Close Reading Of The Today Series And Her Own Journals, Grappling With What It Means To Keep Time; Scott Lyall Considers The Experience And Contingency Of Time, Differentiating Between Thinking With And Speaking About A Work Of Art; Dave Mckenzie Stages A Diaristic Correspondence With Kawara; Bettina Pousttchi Reflects On Duration In Art And The History Of Time Keeping; And Haim Steinbach Plays With Beckettian Abstraction, Absurdity And Repetition.