Brian O’Doherty wrote art criticism, fiction and conceptual work about galleries, perception and the politics of display. Inside the White Cube collects essays examining the apparently neutral modern gallery as a highly controlled space that shapes how art is seen and valued. As an artist, O’Doherty also worked under the name Patrick Ireland, making identity and institutional context part of his practice. His novel The Deposition of Father McGreevy is set in rural Ireland and uses a priest’s account of a disappearing community to create a very different, literary form of inquiry. Inside the White Cube is the essential O’Doherty text for art readers, while The Deposition of Father McGreevy shows how differently his interest in framing and absence can operate inside a novel. Read more Less
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