{"product_id":"against-reason-volume-2-isbn-9780262551380","title":"Against Reason, Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eOriginal essays and visual arts projects that explore the understudied breadth and richness of American artist Tony Smith’s work in architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst Reason: Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e is the companion publication to \u003ci\u003eTony Smith Catalogue Raisonné: Architecture, \u003c\/i\u003ethe second in a two-volume, four-book printed publication series dedicated to Tony Smith’s sculpture and architecture. Edited by curator and historian James Voorhies, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Reason \u003c\/i\u003egathers newly commissioned essays together with visual arts projects by practitioners and critics, including Mario Gooden, Christopher Ketcham, Marta Kuzma, Peter L’Official, R.H. Quaytman, and Jasmine Rault. Their contributions from a wide range of disciplines— from American studies, architecture, and art history to theory, design, and visual art—place Smith’s architectural design work in dialogue with contemporary culture, expanding perspectives on the artist’s canonical work and offering fresh twenty-first-century insights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eAgainst Reason\u003c\/i\u003e books complicate and pluralize the very idea of the catalogue raisonné to challenge the monolithic place these forms have in writing art history by providing a more nuanced and historically rich lens through which the Tony Smith archive and his work can be read. In this case, the dual-publication project is an innovative approach to scholarship that situates Smith within contemporary culture, thus making evident his ongoing relevance in the fields of art and design.Preface\u003cbr\u003eJames Voorhies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn-Between Reason: Tony Smith’s Transmutation of Space Architecture and Sculpture\u003cbr\u003eMario Gooden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOutsider Art: Hawai‘i, Haole Crater, and Tony Smith\u003cbr\u003ePeter L’Official\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Valid Confrontation: Tony Smith and the Socio-Geometries of Urban Space\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Ketcham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTony Smith’s Queer Architectures: “the inscrutability and the mysteriousness of the thing”\u003cbr\u003eJas Rault\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Olsen House, Old Quarry, Guilford, Connecticut\u003cbr\u003eMarta Kuzma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Home: A Pentagon\u003cbr\u003eR. H. Quaytman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Olsen House, Old Quarry, Guilford, Connecticut\u003cbr\u003eMarta Kuzma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributor Biographies\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePhotography CreditsJames Voorhies is an American curator and historian of modern and contemporary art. He has authored several books including \u003ci\u003ePostsensual Aesthetics: On the Logic of the Curatorial\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2023) and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press, 2017); he is coeditor of a two-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of American artist Tony Smith, and editor of two companion volumes of essays and projects related to Smith (all MIT Press, 2024–2025).Voorhies is based New York, has taught at Bennington College and Harvard University, and holds a PhD in modern and contemporary art history from the Ohio State University, USA.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300396519653,"sku":"NP9780262551380","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262551380.jpg?v=1767721126","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/against-reason-volume-2-isbn-9780262551380","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}