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Spotlights
Featuring ten years of scholarship on artworks from the renowned permanent collection of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, this volume gathers fifty spotlight essays exploring individual artworks from the 13th to the 21st century. While including works by noted artists ranging from Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt to Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, this collection catalog departs from conventional masterpieces or period approaches to present a sampling of ongoing and new research from a variety of scholarly voices. Over forty authors offer perspectives on works of their own choosing, selected from the Museum s collection that has been building since 1881."
The Implicated Subject
“A pathbreaking meditation . . . shifts the discussion . . . from . . . notions of guilt and innocence to the complexities of responsibility and accountability.” —Amir Eshel, Stanford University When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. We may not be direct agents of harm, but we may still contribute to, inhabit, or benefit from regimes of domination that we neither set up nor control. Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the im...
Ai Weiwei
Over the past two decades, the Chinese conceptual artist, activist and exile Ai Weiwei has created art that addresses complex and sensitive themes of political, ethical, and social urgency. His artworks, which call upon both Western and Chinese cultural traditions, are deeply engaged with the history of art, drawing particularly on conceptualism and minimalism. From the start of his multifaceted career in the late 1970s, Ai has envisioned artistic practice as a deeply human, moral, and political endeavour. This volume presents the artist's work in dialogue with theoretical texts by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben and the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt alongside interpretive essays that illuminate the artist's work on human rights, his engagement with historical Chinese artifacts, and his critical consideration of the effects of globalisation.
To See Without Being Seen
"This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare, organized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and on view there January 29 to April 24, 2016."--Page 96.
Multiplied
"The catalog presents the entirety of Edition MAT's three collections--from 1959, 1964, and 1965--with three scholarly essays and biographical entries on each of the participating artists that illuminate this unique constellation of practitioners ... An appendix of historical documents, many translated here for the first time, includes artist interviews and manifestos, offering rare insight into the aesthetic agendas of this innovative program"--From publisher's website, viewed March 12, 2020.
Chance Aesthetics
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Sept. 18, 2009-Jan. 4, 2010.
Drawing Ambience
Drawing Ambience showcases a selection of drawings from the personal collection of the noted architectural educator Alvin Boyarsky (1928-1990). As chairman of the Architectural Association (AA) in London (1971-1990), Boyarsky accumulated an impressive collection of drawings at a time when the AA produced an extraordinary program of exhibitions and publications rooted in drawing not only as a representational medium but also a form of architecture in its own right. Boyarsky s drawing collection emerged at the confluence of modernism, postmodernism, and other cultural currents worldwide, capturing the work of artists and architects such as Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin, Frank Gehry, Zaha Ha...
Models and Prototypes
Models and Prototypes is the first exhibition in the Focus series, a collection-based series of publications and exhibitions intended to examine significant works from the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum's collection within the context of contemporary discourses. As a preparatory step, models have always occupied a special place in the context of artistic production. This changed in the twentieth century when many artists set out to redefine the parameters of art and artistic production. With new artistic objectives, structural and conceptual models emerged as complete and viable works of art in and of themselves. Beginning in the 1910s, the model - conceived as a system defined by a set of r...
Spectacle and Leisure in Paris
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, held February 10 to May 21, 2017, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis.
