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Ryan McGinley - Whistle for the Wind (Hardcover)
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Ryan McGinley - Whistle for the Wind (Hardcover)
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In 2000, Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition
of photographs in an abandoned SoHo gallery. To coincide with the
show, the artist created several handmade books featuring a
sampling of his work entitled The Kids Are Alright. A copy
eventually found its way into the hands of Sylvia Wolf, then a
curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In
2003, Wolf mounted an exhibition of his work at the venerable
institution, the youngest artist to ever have a solo show at the
museum. What Wolf recognized-and what other critics, curators, and
collectors would quickly discover-was an artist who understood and
chronicled his own generation (habituees of New York City's
downtown) as no artist had before him. McGinley had managed to
capture the hedonistic adventures of youth culture-kids hanging out
and enjoying life-but without the dark underbelly of earlier
artists who mined similar themes. As the work evolved, he moved
away from the more documentary aspect of the early photographs and
began to create scenarios where he could explore different ideas
(aesthetic and otherwise). This eventually led to the now legendary
summer-long road trips, capturing groups of twenty-somethings
amongst a variety of American landscapes. In his most recent body
of work, McGinley continues to explore-in black and white as well
as in color-the body but in the still, pared down atmosphere of his
studio. In this first major monograph chronicling the entirety of
the artist's career, McGinley's work is considered by three
extraordinary figures: Chris Kraus, novelist and critic; John
Kelsey, writer, artist and activist; and Gus Van Sant, the auteur
filmmaker. Each attends-through the lens of their own rich
insights-to various aspects of the artist's work and creative
process, offering in-depth and unique perspectives on McGinley's
work and import.
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