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| John Divola: Three Acts | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Campany, Jan Tumlir
Creator: John Divola
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 929142
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 9.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1931788952
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781931788953
ASIN: 1931788952
Publication Date: May 1, 2006
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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 yearis 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: iMy 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.i
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Destruction and change are documented in vivid black and white photos August 5, 2006
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David Campany's essay provides a historian/photographer's background and perspective while critic Jan Tumlir's interview adds more depth to compliment the photo gathering of John Divola's Three Acts. Divola created these bodies of work over the course of the 1970s, pulling together the themes of Vandalism, LAX NAZ and Zuma created in condemned neighborhoods, urban settings, and through interplays between artist and subject. Destruction and change are documented in vivid black and white photos.
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