Get the original Objects: USA catalog from 1970, and the Objects: USA 2020 publication and see how past and present celebrate American art, craft, and design.
In 1969, the groundbreaking exhibition Objects: USA opened to crowds at the Smithsonian Institution before traveling across the country and abroad. Uniting more than three hundred artists who were inventing new approaches to artmaking by way of craft media, this revolutionary event altered the course of American art and introduced the world to some of today’s most celebrated artists.
A half-century later, Objects: USA 2020 revisits this legendary show—and its accompanying catalog, which has become a bible of sorts to many researchers—and extends its legacy by assembling fifty participants from the original exhibition and fifty contemporary artists. In their own ways, both generations radically upend the traditional methods and materials of craft to create new forms of art.
Objects: USA
Publisher: Viking Press
Release date: 1972 (3rd edition)
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5"
Pages: 360
OCLC: 1006635381
Objects: USA 2020
Publisher: R & Company and The Monacelli Press
Release date: October 2020
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 x 11"
Pages: 231
ISBN: 9781580935739