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This is the first major publication on the art and lives of
twentieth-century Fort Worth artists Scott (1942-2011) and Stuart
(1942-2006) Gentling. Prolific modern-day Renaissance men, the
brothers created an extensive body of landscapes; portraits of
regional and national luminaries; historical studies ranging from a
visual reconstruction of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan to
subjects drawn from the French and American Revolutions; and
natural history illustrations of the flora and fauna of Texas.
Realist painters, they drew inspiration from past masters such as
Jacques-Louis David and John James Audubon, and they corresponded
and collaborated with contemporaries such as Andrew Wyeth and Ed
Ruscha. The Gentling brothers' place within the canon of
twentieth-century American art is established here. Along with 290
images, including 120 plates, the book includes five essays, two by
scholars Erika Doss of the University of Notre Dame and Barbara
Mundy of Fordham University; a trio of Carter museum curators
provide deep analyses of the Gentlings' artistic process, the
output of their fifty-year career, and a chronology of their lives;
plus several brief and incisive takes on specific aspects of the
brothers' multifaceted art and lives are featured throughout.
The renowned artist Ed Ruscha was born in Nebraska, grew up in
Oklahoma, and has lived and worked in Southern California since the
late 1950s. Beginning in 1956, road trips across the American
Southwest furnished a conceptual trove of themes and motifs that he
mined throughout his career. The everyday landscapes of the West,
especially as experienced from the automobile - gas stations,
billboards, building facades, parking lots, and long stretches of
roadway - are the primary motifs of his often deadpan and instantly
recognizable paintings and works on paper, as well as his
influential artist books such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations and
All the Buildings on the Sunset Strip. His iconic word images -
declaring Adios, Rodeo, Wheels over Indian Trails, and
Honey...Twisted through More Damn Traffic to Get Here - further
underscore a contemporary Western sensibility. Ruscha's interest in
what the real West has become - and Hollywood's version of it -
plays out across his oeuvre. The cinematic sources of his subject
matter can be seen in his silhouette pictures, which often appear
to be grainy stills from old Hollywood movies. They feature images
of the contemporary West, such as parking lots and swimming pools,
but also of its historical past: covered wagons, buffalo, teepees,
and howling coyotes. Featuring essays by Karin Breuer and D. J.
Waldie, and a fascinating interview with the artist conducted by
Kerry Brougher, this stunning catalogue, produced in close
collaboration with the Ruscha studio, offers the first full
exploration of the painter's lifelong fascination with the romantic
concept and modern reality of the evolving American West. Published
in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco: July 16-October 9, 2016.
Commemorating an exhibition at Gagosian, London, this catalog is
the first publication to examine the connections between these two
artists work. Two booklets in a softcover portfolio feature
full-color plates and installation views. An interview with Ruscha
and an essay by Margaret Iversen explain how Ruscha first
encountered Eilshemius s enigmatic paintings, which of the artist s
aesthetic innovations captured Ruscha s imagination, and how his
own work relates to and differs from that of the Neglected Marvel
Eilshemius.
This sixth volume of Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne of the
Paintings documents the 227 paintings, and studies for paintings,
made between 1998 and 2003. Though a number of these works refer in
some degree to Ruscha's output of the past two decades, the period
inaugurates two major series--the "Metro Plots," which diagram
streets in Los Angeles and American cities, and the celebrated
"Mountain" paintings. A third series, loosely grouped, takes books
as its subject. This period is also notable for the appearance of
the first of the "Course of Empire" paintings, with which the
artist would represent the United States at the 51st Venice
Biennale in 2005. As in previous volumes, included are numerous
documentary photographs, a selection of Ruscha's sketchbook pages,
and complete bibliographic references and exhibition histories."
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
An anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed
Ruscha.Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last
forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a
critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the
visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter,
Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with
conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and
shellac), prints, films, photographs, and books. He is often
associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but
tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced,
eye. Indeed, his work is characterized by the tensions between high
and low, solemn and irreverent, and serious and nonsensical, and it
draws on popular culture as well as Western art traditions. Leave
Any Information at the Signal not only documents the work of this
influential artist as he rose to prominence but also contains his
writings and commentaries on other artistic developments of the
period. The book is divided into three parts, each of which is
arranged chronologically. Part one contains statements, letters,
and other writings. Part two consists of more than fifty
interviews, some of which have never before been published or
translated into English. Part three contains sketchbook pages, word
groupings, and other notes that chart how Ruscha develops ideas and
solves artistic problems. They are published here for the first
time. The book also contains more than eighty illustrations,
selected and arranged by the artist.
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