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Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco
An elegant presentation of the most significant collection of the artist's work. It secures Kelly's place as one of the most original and compelling of contemporary American artists.
Marilyn Minter
Text by Johanna Burton, Matthew Higgs, Mary Heilmann.
The Recording Machine
A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of photography and the visual arts around 1968. Author Joshua Shannon reveals an oddly stringent realism in the period, tracing artists’ rejection of essential truths in favor of surface appearances. Dubbing this tendency factualism, Shannon illuminates not only the Cold War’s preoccupation with data but also the rise of a pervasive culture of fact. Focusing on the United States and West Germany, where photodocumentary traditions intersected with 1960s politics, Shannon investigates a broad variety of art, ranging from conceptual photography and earthworks to photorealist painting and abstraction. He looks closely at art by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, Douglas Huebler, Gerhard Richter, and others. These artists explored fact’s role as a modern paradigm for talking, thinking, and knowing. Their art, Shannon concludes, helps to explain both the ambivalent anti-humanism of today’s avant-garde art and our own culture of fact.
The Art Bulletin
Includes section: Notes and reviews.
The Present Prospects of Social Art History
The Present Prospects of Social Art History represents a major reconsideration of how art historians analyze works of art and the role that historical factors, both those at the moment when the work was created and when the historian addresses the objects at hand, play in informing their interpretations. Featuring the work of some of the discipline's leading scholars, the volume contains a collection of essays that consider the advantages, limitations, and specific challenges of seeing works of art primarily through a historical perspective. The assembled texts, along with an introduction by the co-editors, demonstrate an array of possible methodological approaches that acknowledge the crucial role of history in the creation, reception, and exhibition of works of art.
Supernova
"Supernova" brings together a number of curators and critics--each of whom was actively involved in constructing the 1990s art discourse--to step back and consider what transidentity, broad-based thematic trends can now be identified as emblematic of, or seminal to, the decade. Illustrations.
Art Journal
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Zyzzyva
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