{"data":{"id":"11204","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":11204,"topgoose_id":2910,"tms_id":11204,"display_name":"Carol Bove","sort_name":"Bove Carol","display_date":"1971–","begin_date":"1971","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early 2000s Carol Bove began making understated assemblages of books, magazines, and curios on pedestals, tables, or wood-and-metal shelving units. The meticulous arrangements position the recent past of art and design—minimalist forms and modernist decor—in the context of the social and political upheavals of the 1960s, a decade that looms large in the cultural imagination and in Bove’s own self-understanding: she was born at its twilight and raised in Berkeley, California, a mecca for the counterculture, student protests, and leftist politics.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/43244\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAdventures in Poetry\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003eexhumes an archive of this period in dog-eared volumes culled from thrift shops and garage sales: Lao Tzu’s \u003cem\u003eTao Te Ching\u003c/em\u003e, Abbie Hoffman’s \u003cem\u003eRevolution for the Hell of It\u003c/em\u003e, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore’s \u003cem\u003eThe Medium\nIs the Massage\u003c/em\u003e (splayed open on the bottom shelf), books on the activist Angela Davis, LSD, avant-garde art, and communism, as well as Kenneth Anger’s \u003cem\u003eHollywood\nBabylon\u003c/em\u003e and a monograph on the abstract painter Nicolas de Staël, cracked open at the far left and sitting atop John Giorno’s \u003cem\u003eCum\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(the installation takes its title from\nGiorno’s publisher, Adventures in Poetry).\nBove investigates how these juxtapositions\nmight reveal fissures in the canonized\nnarratives that can be plumbed anew or how\nthey might reanimate the objects’ dormant\ndimensions (for example, the utopianism\nor sexual emancipation many of them\nencode), a new poetic meaning emerging\nfrom the synthesis. The work’s force\nemerges not just in examining how we\nreceive cultural artifacts from the past but\nin imagining how future archaeologists\nwill interpret our present thirty years hence.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500128920","wikidata_id":"Q5044261","created_at":"2017-08-30T17:39:37.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-31T07:01:44.780-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/11204/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/11204/exhibitions"}}}}