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Agnes Martin (Hardcover)
Agnes Martin; Edited by Frances Morris, Tiffany Bell; Text written by Briony Fer, Frances Morris, …
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As one of the key figures of Brazil's Neo-Concrete movement of the
late 1950s and early 1960s, Lygia Pape developed a specific
understanding of geometric abstraction that resulted in a radical
new conception of concrete-constructivist art, challenging an
overly rigid rationalism by moving toward more subjective,
multi-sensorial modes of expression. Marking Pape's first solo
exhibition in Germany, this richly illustrated book presents the
artist's unusual creative power in all its breadth, drawing on a
body of documents that is being published for the first time.
Against the backdrop of the tension between Brazil's vibrant
avant-garde and the growing political repression through the
military dictatorship (1964-1985), Pape's work reflects ethical and
socio-political issues and harnesses experimental explorations of
not just metaphorical geometric but social space to create poetic
manifestations of subtle resistance. Emphasizing the primacy of the
sensorial experience of the viewers, Pape went as far as to declare
them to be the actual creators of her works.
A lavishly illustrated monograph that spans the entire career of
Gerhard Richter, one of the most celebrated contemporary artists
"Spans the contemporary German artist's six-decade career. . . .
[A] stirring exhibition in [its] own right."-New York Times "[A]
weighty catalogue... illuminat[es] some less-visited corners of
Richter's oeuvre."-New York Review of Books Over the course of his
acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed
both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with
the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of
post-Second World War Germany, in both broad and very personal
terms. This handsomely designed book features approximately 100 of
his key canvases, from photo paintings created in the early 1960s
to portraits and later large-scale abstract series, as well as
select works in glass. New essays by eminent scholars address a
variety of themes: Sheena Wagstaff evaluates the conceptual import
of the artist's technique; Benjamin H. D. Buchloh discusses the
poignant Birkenau paintings (2014); Peter Geimer explores the
artist's enduring interest in photographic imagery; Briony Fer
looks at Richter's family pictures against traditional painting
genres and conventions; Brinda Kumar investigates the artist's
engagement with landscape as a site of memory; Andre Rottmann
considers the impact of randomization and chance on Richter's
abstract works; and Hal Foster examines the glass and mirror works.
As this book demonstrates, Richter's rich and varied oeuvre is a
testament to the continued relevance of painting in contemporary
art. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by
Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Met Breuer, New York
(March 4-July 5, 2020) Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
(August 14, 2020-January 19, 2021)
The artists featured in this book approach the inner self through a
variety of media. The work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby comprises
vibrantly patterned paintings on paper that negotiate the complex
cultural terrain of a life formed between two worlds: her adopted
home in America and her native Nigeria. Inspired by photography,
fashion, architecture, and design, as well as her own family
history, Akunyili Crosby's works often feature domestic spaces that
function as physical, conceptual, and emotional points of arrival
and departure. Conversely, the Portuguese sculptor Leonor Antunes
focuses on migration and the transformation of form and ideas
beyond temporal and geographical spaces. The starting point for her
elegant site-specific sculptures is the exploration of art, design,
and architectural history. Adriana Varejao addresses the colonial
history of Brazil in her visceral sculptures and paintings. She
often deploys the motif of the wall, the boundary between inside
and outside, in her work. The omnipresence of the past also colours
the work of trained stage designer Henrike Naumann, whose immersive
installations engage with the history of East-West German
relations, as well as contemporary instances of right-wing
ideology. Naumann explores the mechanisms of radicalisation and
explores how they manifest themselves in space. Taken together, the
works offer a radical and innovative formal language that positions
interiority as both political and aesthetic.
The beautiful catalogue that accompanies the critically-acclaimed
exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum Best known
for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and
revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings, Vija
Celmins (b. 1938) has been creating exquisitely detailed renderings
of natural imagery for more than five decades. The oceans were
followed by desert floors and night skies-all subjects in which
vast, expansive distances are distilled into luminous, meticulous,
and mesmerizing small-scale artworks. For Celmins, this obsessive
"redescribing" of the world is a way to understand human
consciousness in relation to lived experience. The first major
publication on the artist in twenty years, this comprehensive and
lavishly illustrated volume explores the full range of Celmins's
work produced since the 1960s-drawings and paintings as well as
sculpture and prints. Scholarly essays, a narrative chronology, and
a selection of excerpts from interviews with the artist illuminate
her methods and techniques; survey her early years in Los Angeles,
where she was part of a circle that included James Turrell and Ken
Price; and trace the development of her work after she moved to New
York City and befriended figures such as Robert Gober and Richard
Serra. Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art Exhibition Schedule: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(12/15/18-03/31/19) Art Gallery of Ontario (05/04/19-08/04/19) The
Met Breuer, New York (09/24/19-01/12/20)
The catalogue to accompany a major solo presentation of the work of
the influential New York-based artist Mary Heilmann, her first in a
public institution in the UK in 15 years. Born in California in
1940, Heilmann studied ceramics and poetry before moving to New
York in 1968 and taking up painting. A pioneer of infusing abstract
painting with influences from craft traditions and popular culture
(especially rock music and California's beach culture), Heilmann is
one of the most important yet still underrecognised artists working
today. This publication explores Heilmann's approach to abstraction
from two distinct but interrelated perspectives: the formal and the
personal. The personal is reflected in the title Looking at
Pictures, named after a section in the artist's memoir The All
Night Movie (1999), in which she writes, `Each of my paintings can
be seen as an autobiographical marker', clearly represented here
through works that relate to moments in the artist's friendships,
memories of places where she has lived or spent time and her love
of music and film. The juxtaposing formal aspect of her work is
also explored, most evidently in her early paintings of grids and
squares rendered in primary colours and in works that are based on
architectural or interior planes, such as doors and mirrors. As
well as new essays by Lydia Yee (Chief Curator, Whitechapel
Gallery) and Briony Fer (Professor of History of Art, University
College London), and writings by the artist on key works, the
publication will feature 100 beautiful full-colour illustrations of
paintings, works on paper, furniture and ceramics from Heilmann's
five-decade career.
A comprehensive look at works made by Baldessari between the years
1987 and 1993 This handsome volume, the third of the John
Baldessari (b. 1931) catalogue raisonne project, compiles 400-plus
unique works of art made by the influential conceptual artist from
1987 through 1993. Here we see the artist's large-scale photo-based
works, many of which employed his signature colored discs painted
over the faces of people in the photos, accompanied by entries that
trace the shifts and developments in Baldessari's work as his
collaged photo narratives achieved maturity and mastery. A critical
essay by Briony Fer provides a close reading of selected works,
giving historical context for Baldessari's art from this period. In
addition to a detailed chronology, complete exhibition history, and
bibliography, this volume notably features a previously unpublished
conversation between Baldessari and the artist Ed Ruscha, which was
undertaken specifically for this publication. In the conversation,
the artists discuss their early careers in Southern California and
the shared thematic concerns in their work. The artworks in this
volume demonstrate Baldessari's ability to express-and, in many
cases, combine-the narrative potential of images and the
associative power of language within the boundaries of a single
piece. Published in association with Marian Goodman Gallery
Alison Wilding RA (b.1948) is one of Britain's foremost sculptors.
Tracing the trajectory of her artistic evolution, this original
publication provides the first critical survey of Wilding's rich
career. Known for her use of contrasting materials and often
pairing forms in precarious juxtapositions and balancing acts,
recent works combine string, steel and hair, mirrored glass,
silicone rubber, alabaster, sand and painted foam. Resisting
categorisation, Wilding's sculptural language steps beyond the
so-called 'new sculpture' which emerged within Britain in the
1980s, to embrace the European and American vocabularies for
producing large-scale abstract sculpture that appeared from the
1960s onwards. Drawing on extensive interviews with the artist and
referencing numerous secondary sources, this impeccably researched
and beautifully produced publication will situate Wilding's work
within its rightful place in the history of modern abstract
sculpture.
An unprecedented look at the little-known paintings from Louise
Bourgeois's early years in New York that laid the groundwork for
her sculptural practice "The catalog Louise Bourgeois: Paintings,
and the revelatory exhibition, . . . were overseen by Clare Davies,
who has commissioned an insightful essay from the art historian
Briony Fer. But there's another bonus: Beyond the paintings in the
show, the catalog reproduces around 25 more, meaning that
three-quarters of Bourgeois's contribution to modern painting can
now be seen in one place."-Roberta Smith, New York Times, "Best Art
Books of 2022" Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is celebrated today for
her sculptures. Less known are the paintings she produced between
her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to three-dimensional
media in 1949. Crucial to her artistic practice, these early
works-the focus of this groundbreaking publication-show how
Bourgeois evolved her deeply personal artistic lexicon, and how the
themes and motifs she explored in her paintings coalesced into
symbols of her sculptural practice. Informed by new archival
research and the artist's extensive diaries, Louise Bourgeois:
Paintings explores Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art
world of the 1940s and her development of a unique pictorial
language, adding a key element to our understanding of this crucial
artist's career. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of
Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (April 11-August 7, 2022) New
Orleans Museum of Art (September 8, 2022-January 8, 2023)
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Lygia Pape (Paperback)
Daniel Birnbaum, Briony Fer
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William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland are two of South Africa's
foremost visual artists. Kentridge is a successful animated
filmmaker, opera director, performer and draughtsman, while
Koorland has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim as a painter,
printmaker and maker of objects. Born in the 1950s, they first met
as university students in the mid-1970s, and have been talking
about art ever since. Their friendship of nearly forty years has
been mutually enriching, as the art of each has inspired and
informed the other. This significant volume brings together a
diverse selection of works from each artist to explore the formal
and thematic links between their different practices. It focuses on
the role of writing in their work, the relationship between
drawing, painting and animation, their interest in film, their
understanding of lines, alphabets and letters and the relationship
between the iconic and the abstract, and maps and mapping.The book
is divided into four essays by Briony Fer, Griselda Pollock, Joseph
Leo Koerner and Ed Krcma, each of which provides a fresh
perspective on the artists and their work, as well as a
conversation between the artists and curator Tamar Garb, exploring
the themes highlighted by the exhibition. The book features eighty
colour illustrations of a wide selection of artworks by each artist
including works on paper, maps and sketchbooks that have rarely
been seen by the public before.Distributed for the Fruitmarket
Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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