Lawrence Weiner
born 1942
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In Tate Britain
Biography
Lawrence Weiner (born New York, February 10, 1942) is an American conceptual artist. He is one of the central figures in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s. His work often takes the form of typographic texts.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Lawrence Weiner FIRE AND BRIMSTONE SET IN A HOLLOW FORMED BY HAND
1988 -
Lawrence Weiner TAKEN TO AS DEEP AS THE SEA CAN BE
2005 -
Lawrence Weiner STRAIGHT DOWN TO BELOW
1988 -
Lawrence Weiner TIED UP IN KNOTS
1988 -
Lawrence Weiner SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
1990 -
Lawrence Weiner TAKEN UP WITH
1988 -
Lawrence Weiner CRUSHED BETWEEN COBBLESTONES
1988 -
Lawrence Weiner SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
Published 1991
Artist as subject
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Robert Mapplethorpe Lawrence Weiner
1982, printed 1991 -
Barry Flanagan Larry Weiner
1973, reprinted c.1983
Film and audio
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TateShots
In the Studio with Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner on working with words, why he’s against Helvetica, and how he came to design his own font -
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Talking Art: Lawrence Weiner
Following his highly acclaimed retrospective 'As far as the eye can see' (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Lawrence …
Features
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Tate Papers
Curating by Numbers: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This paper looks back at the author’s curatorial practice, with a focus on her ‘number shows’ and their randomly ordered … -
Tate Papers
Two Exhibition-Related Films by Jef Cornelis: Landmark Exhibitions Issue
This discussion of two films made for television in 1971 by Flemish filmmaker Jef Cornelis brings into relief an underlying … -
Tate Etc
Books Etc. Lawrence Weiner
Claire Nichols reviews Lawrence Weiner’s As Far as the Eye Can See. Edited by Donna De Salvo and Ann Goldstein, … -
Tate Papers
Tangentially: The Archive and the Bathroom
This paper discusses the role of the archive in relation to the artistic process, through the work of Lucy Gunning, … -
Tate Etc
Thirty years of eternity: Walter de Maria
Broken Kilometer, as Kellein writes, surpasses many other great works: "Even Barnett Newman's 'zip' paintings, Dan Flavin's fluorescent tube installations … -
Tate Etc
Tate Etc. issue 9: Spring 2007
Tate Etc. issue 9, spring 2007 online version of Tate's magazine -
Tate Etc
Bound to fail: Open Systems I
The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object, with the emphasis shifting away from the static artwork …
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