[PDF] Barry Le Va: the aesthetic aftermath

This is a pioneering study of one of contemporary art’s most compelling artists – and a new window on an era of social unrest. For Michael Maizels, Barry Le Va’s work constitutes a particularly productive subject on inquiry because it clearly articulates the interconnection between the avant-garde’s distrust of autonomous art objects, two decades of social unrest, the emergence of information theory, and lingering notions of scientific objectivity.