Three Acts

John Divola
9781931788953 / 1931788952       
Three Acts

Three Acts

John Divola
9781931788953 / 1931788952       
Publisher Aperture 2006
Edition Hardcover , 141 pages
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In 1973, California artist John Divola began the first of three highly ambitious and original bodies of work that form Three Acts, the first book dedicated to them. His Vandalism series comprises black-and-white photographs of interiors of abandoned houses. Entering illegally, Divola spray-painted markings that referenced action painting as readily as the graffiti that was then becoming a cultural phenomenon. For the following year’s Los Angeles International Airport Noise Abatement series, he photographed a condemned neighborhood bought out to serve as a noise buffer for new runways, focusing on evidence of previous unsanctioned entries by other vandals. His final work, Zuma, documents the destruction of an abandoned beachfront property by the artist and others, as it deteriorates frame by frame and eventually burns. Divola has much in common with artists such as Bruce Nauman and Robert Smithson who have used photography to investigate other topics. He describes his innovative practice succinctly: “My acts, my painting, my photographing, my considering, are part of, not separate from, this process of evolution and change. My participation was not so much one of intellectual consideration as one of visceral involvement.”

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Book title Three Acts
Photographer John Divola
ISBN 10 1931788952        / 1-931788-95-2       
ISBN 13 9781931788953 / 978-1-931788-95-3
Publisher Aperture
Publish date May 2006
Publish year 2006
Book format Hardcover
Pages 141 pages
Dimensions 28 x 23,5 cm / 9.48 x 11.26 x 0.78 inches

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