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Alex Katz: Gathering (Hardcover)
Alex Katz; Edited by Katherine Brinson; Text written by Levi Prombaum, David Breslin, Jennifer Y Chuong, …
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R1,579
Discovery Miles 15 790
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Arguably the most important living artist in America, Jasper Johns
(b. 1930) has been a leading advocate of drawing as an artistic
genre in its own right, not just a preparatory medium for other
works. This catalogue brings together 41 of Johns's drawings,
spanning more than 60 years of his illustrious career and,
beginning in 1954, the origin of his mature practice. It
encompasses his most famous recurring motifs, including flags,
targets, and numbers, and an essay by David Breslin contextualizes
this reiterative aspect of Johns's career. Exquisite reproductions
and large-scale details reveal the touch and process of this master
draftsman, imparting to the reader a feeling of being in close
contact with the artist himself. As this intimate book shows,
Johns's art, at once simple and enigmatic, is above all a
meditation on the world around him, a constant investigation of
what he calls "the condition of being here." Distributed for The
Menil Collection Exhibition Schedule: The Menil Collection, Houston
(11/03/18-01/27/19)
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Alex Da Corte: Chicken (Hardcover)
Alex Da Corte; Edited by Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder; Text written by Erica Battle, David Breslin, …
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R655
Discovery Miles 6 550
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The celebrated Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) died at the
height of his powers, when he was considered "one of the most
complex and individual artists working today" (Guardian). His
challenging, enigmatic works almost inexorably draw in viewers.
"The spectator," Munoz said about his installations, "becomes very
much like the object to be looked at, and perhaps the viewer has
become the one who is on view." This handsome book, distinguished
by more than 30 stunning photographs, documents a group of Munoz
installations at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Representing the full range of Munoz's sculptures-from First
Banister (1987), which reflects the artist's early use of
architectural language, to Conversation Piece (2001), a work that
shows his later interest in the human figure-the book demonstrates
how Munoz invented a mode of storytelling through objects that
spoke to space, memory, and displacement. David Breslin contributes
a reflection on notions of interiority and exteriority, and of
perception and absorption, as expressed in Munoz's work.
Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Art History and Emergency assesses art history's role and
responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities
crisis"-the perceived decline in the practical applications of the
humanities in modern times. This timely collection of critical
essays and creative pieces addresses several thought-provoking
questions on the subject. For instance, as this so-called crisis is
but the latest of many, what part has "crisis" played in the
humanities' history? How are artists, art historians, and
professionals in related disciplines responding to current
pressures to prove their worth? How does one defend the practical
value of knowing how to think deeply about objects and images
without losing the intellectual intensity that characterizes the
best work in the discipline? Does art history as we know it have a
future? Distributed for the Clark Art Institute
This stunning book examines the collection of works by self-taught
artists assembled by Stephanie and John Smither over the last
thirty-odd years. A team of prominent curators, writers, critics,
and art historians focuses on key works by twelve artists,
including the boisterous assemblages of Thornton Dial; brightly
colored visual interpretations of the Bible by Sister Gertrude
Morgan; Oscar Hadwiger's detailed wood models of fantastical
architecture; and Carlo Zinelli's narrative tableaus of stylized
figures and animals. Also featured are works by the ceramicist
Georgia Blizzard; drawings by Hiroyuki Doi, Solange Knopf, Martin
Ramirez, and Dominico Zindato; paintings by Jon Serl and Johnnie
Swearingen; and carved wood sculptures by Charlie Willeto.
Distributed for The Menil Collection Exhibition Schedule: The Menil
Collection (06/10/16 -10/16/16)
Featuring thirty-five outstanding abstract paintings made between
1950 and 1975 from the collection of the National Gallery of Art,
Washington, this fascinating book casts a new glance at a renowned
period in the history of art, including works by Lynda Benglis,
Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. A
groundbreaking essay by Harry Cooper explores Pollock's preeminent
role for these and other artists, analyzes artistic influence, and
discusses what it means to be original. Focusing on Frank Stella,
Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Robert Ryman, Cy Twombly, and
Simon Hantai, and viewing their relationships to Pollock through
the lens of Harold Bloom's seminal text The Anxiety of Influence,
Cooper addresses the material, psychological, and thematic ties
between Pollock's work and theirs and expands the circle of artists
that we might consider his artistic heirs. Distributed for the
Clark Art Institute and the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition Schedule: The Clark Art Institute (07/04/14-10/13/14)
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