{"id":4143,"date":"2009-05-22T07:57:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T14:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2009-08-06T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:02:23","slug":"david-ireland-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/05\/22\/david-ireland-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ireland R.I.P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Ireland <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/davidireland.jpg\" alt=\"davidireland\" title=\"davidireland\" width=\"363\" height=\"475\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/davidireland.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/davidireland-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><br \/>\nBay Area conceptual artist David Ireland passed away. He was 78.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/05\/21\/BAB017O3U8.DTL\">Kenneth Baker&#8217;s obit here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor an artist who worked in materials as graceless as cement, disused furniture and broken bits of mass-produced garden sculpture, Mr. Ireland enjoyed an unusually varied audience. His reluctance to take himself or his work too seriously nearly always made itself felt. Even people who thought contemporary art absurd often appreciated his willingness to affirm the quotient of absurdity in his work and methods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dd-ireland1.jpg\" alt=\"dd-ireland1\" title=\"dd-ireland1\" width=\"580\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dd-ireland1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dd-ireland1-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/08\/16\/DDDL12AER2.DTL\">Art collector bought his house.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karstenschubert.com\/browse\/_David%20Ireland,0\/\">18 great images <\/a>from Karsten Schubert<\/p>\n<p>Previous post on David Ireland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/13\/david-ireland\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/05\/05\/bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear-pt-ii\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ireland Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland passed away. He was 78. Kenneth Baker&#8217;s obit here. For an artist who worked in materials as graceless as cement, disused furniture and broken bits of mass-produced garden sculpture, Mr. Ireland enjoyed an unusually varied audience. His reluctance to take himself or his work too seriously nearly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/05\/22\/david-ireland-rip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Ireland R.I.P&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,95,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-david-ireland-bruce-conner","category-design-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}