A survey of Bernar
Venet's oeuvre. McEviley goes back to the artist's beginnings
and traces his development by highlighting the conceptual and
philosophical fulcrums of each period from the 1950's to the
present day.
McEviley writes: In the 1960s Venet had in fact made significant
alterations to the shape of art theory. The idea-and the practice-of
monosemy amounted to an actual structural change, not just an
attitudinal one. Venet's feeling was that aesthetic delectation
was invalidated by its subjectivity, and relativity was an attitudinal
change characteristic of the generation of artists who matured
in the 1960s.
