KIRBY, Michael

Kirby's early critical writings include an introduction to Happenings (1965), and essays, such as his classic The Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde, which became The Art of Time (1969). As a sculptor, Kirby took six sets of photographs from four sides of six subjects and then printed them on cubes that, if turned in complementary ways, would show different sides of six different subjects. As a theater artist, he made Mixed-Means pieces that depended upon the appearance of a double for...