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Open Questions
  • Language: en

Open Questions

An illustrated reader featuring a collection of essays from trailblazing curator and writer Helen Molesworth - the first book of her collected writings Over the past three decades, Helen Molesworth's singular voice and lively curatorial vision has established her as one of the most dynamic and influential voices in the art world. This generously illustrated reader - the first ever collection of her writings - presents 24 essays from the past 30 years, gathered from exhibition catalogs and art publications such as Artforum, Documents, frieze, and October. The volume opens with a new essay that lays out Molesworth's belief in art's unique capacity for merging knowledge and feeling. It also includes new critical and reflective commentary on her past writing, an innovative approach that will position Open Questions as an indispensable volume for viewing and thinking about contemporary art for generations to come.

Work Ethic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Work Ethic

  • Categories: Art

Examines the proliferation of new ways of making "art" in the 1960s by focusing on the changed organization of work in society at the time. Co-published with The Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name.

Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking Back)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking Back)

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-09-15
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  • Publisher: Mit Press

For the past 20 years Louise Lawler has been taking photographs of art in situ. This work explores such themes in Lawler's practice as her relationship to sculpture, her history of collaborative projects, her production of ephemera, & the steady political dimension of her work.

Notes for a Sculpture and a Film
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 52

Notes for a Sculpture and a Film

  • Categories: Art

Josiah McElheny: Notes for a Sculpture and a Film ISBN 1-881390-40-3 / 978-1-881390-40-4 Paperback, 11 x 8 in. / 40 pgs / 34 color and 19 b&w. / U.S. $11.95 CDN $14.00 July / Art

Alice Neel: Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

Alice Neel: Freedom

  • Categories: Art

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, it is not surprising that Alice Neel was a humanist—she was fascinated by people. Known for her daringly honest portraits, Neel loved to paint people in all their complexities—to penetrate and reveal their fears and anxieties, how they defiance and survival. She also loved to paint the unadorned human figure. Her nudes, in particular, explore the body with frankness while celebrating the individuality of each of her subjects, and they exemplify the freedom and courage with which she approached her work and her life. Through her paintings and works on paper, Neel was able to free herself from the expected inhibitio...

Part Object Part Sculpture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Part Object Part Sculpture

  • Categories: Art

'Part Object Part Sculpture' maps a genealogy of postwar sculpture that challenges the Minimalist/Post-Minimalist sequence maintained in most accounts of the period.

Solitaire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Solitaire

This compelling book looks at the work of three influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Painters Lee Lozano (1930-1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b. 1938), and Joan Semmel (b. 1932) are each intensely private and--to varying degrees--chose or have chosen to disappear into their studios to work. Seemingly unconcerned about the prevailing styles or movements, these three women nevertheless each contributed to transformations in the art world. Solitaire examines in depth the three artists' work, sets the historical and social context, and analyzes the private endeavor of the artist alongside the critical reception of their art. The authors call attention to other artists who, like these three, have chosen private or idiosyncratic paths that too often exclude them from art historical narratives. Distributed for the Wexner Center for the Arts Exhibition Schedule: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University (February 2 - April 13, 2008)

Landscape Confection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Landscape Confection

  • Categories: Art

Landscape Confection brings together a group of emerging and mid-career artists involved in expanding the historical practice of landscape painting. Long considered one of the primary categories of Western painting, landscape has traditionally been dialectically structured by the production of either realistic or idealized representations of the natural world. The artists in Landscape Confection work in the realm of imaginary landscape. Many of the paintings derive from the unconscious space of dreams, some borrow from the discipline of topography, and still others reside at the boundary between landscape and abstraction. Most of the pictures have a high degree of whimsy and call to mind the f'êtes galantes of Watteau, redolent as they are with bodily and visual pleasure. Artist included in the exhibition and catalogue are Rowena Drig, Pia Fries, Jason Gubbiotti, Jim Hodges, Katie Pratt, Michael Raedecker, Neil Rock, Lisa Sanditz, Amy Sillman and Janaina Tschape.

Leap Before You Look
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Leap Before You Look

  • Categories: Art

La exposición refleja la historia del Black Mountain College (BMC), fundado en 1933 en Carolina del Norte y concebido como universidad experimental que situaba al arte en el centro de una educación liberal que pretendía educar mejor a los ciudadanos para participar en la sociedad democrática. La educación era interdisciplinaria y concedía gran importancia al debate, la investigación y la experimentación, dedicando la misma atención a las artes visuales –pintura, escultura, dibujo- que a las llamadas artes aplicadas –tejidos, cerámica, orfebrería, así como a la arquitectura, la poesía, la música y la danza.

This Will Have Been
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

This Will Have Been

A fascinating examination of the cultural and political forces that shaped the art of a tumultuous decade