The Burlington Magazine
LANDSCAPE AS GRID IN STEPHEN SHORE’S
‘AMERICAN SURFACES’
by Tom Cornelius
“Stephen Shore’s road-trip series ‘American surfaces’ (1972–73) was first displayed at LIGHT Gallery, New York, but critics have tended to discuss only the book of the photographs, first published in 1999, and so have imagined the series to be a critical view of the landscapes of post-war America as sequences of undifferentiated surfaces. An examination of its original gridded installation suggests that the work might in fact have resisted narratives lamenting the flattening of daily experience.”
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