ASHER, Michael

Asher's field of concern has been the exposure of the institutional environments and social power structures that determine the nature of what is accepted as art. His method is to rearrange the elements in existing exhibition spaces to emphasize the conventions under which they are displayed. His two Chicago projects in 1979 are the most effective examples of his method. At the Art Institute of Chicago, he moved a statue of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon from the top...