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Ron Mueck (Hardcover)
Ron Mueck; Text written by Justin Paton, Robert Rosenblum, Peter Sloterdijk, Robert Storr
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Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in
San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, Crumb has ruptured and
expanded the boundaries of the graphic arts, redefining comics and
cartoons as countercultural art forms. Presenting a slice of
Crumb's unique universe, this book features a wide array of printed
matter culled from the artist's five-decade career-tear sheets of
drawings and comics taken directly from the publications where the
works first appeared, magazine and album covers, broadsides from
the 1960s and 1970s, tabloids from San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury,
Oakland, Manhattan's Lower East Side, and other counterculture
enclaves, as well as exhibition ephemera. Complementing this volume
are historical works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
that have inspired Crumb and pages from his rarely seen sketchbooks
from the 1970s and 1980s that reveal his exemplary skill as a
draftsman. Documenting the critically acclaimed exhibition Drawing
for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact
by the Illustrious R. Crumb at David Zwirner, New York, in 2019,
curated by Robert Storr, this publication offers an opportunity to
immerse oneself in Crumb's singular mind. In the accompanying text,
Storr explores the challenging nature of some of Crumb's work and
the importance of artists who take on the status quo.
In the 1950s, American painter Philip Pearlstein completed his M.A.
thesis, ‘The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908–1930’. When
his research coincided with Picabia’s death in 1953, Pearlstein
became the authority on the work of Picabia and his influence in
European modernism that set the stage for modern art in America. Of
course, it is impossible to discuss Picabia without also
considering the work of Marcel Duchamp. At different intervals in
his career, Pearlstein wrote three subsequent essays on Picabia for
major arts journals: ‘The Symbolic Language of Francis Picabia’
for Arts magazine, 1956; ‘Hello & Goodbye, Francis Picabia’
for Art News, 1970, and ‘When the Dada Daddies Got Real; Or, How
I Turned Picabia Inside Out’ for Brooklyn Rail, 2017.
Pearlstein’s articles present a fascinating comparison between
Picabia, Duchamp and Pearlstein himself. Picabia Inside Out brings
together Pearlstein’s articles in full, published in an
illustrated paperback book with a facsimile of the 1955 M.A. thesis
presented as an historical document showing all the nuances of his
typewriter. A foreword by Robert Storr highlights the broader art
historical context and Pearlstein’s importance as a precursor to
what became known as postmodernism.
An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the life and work of
the visionary and influential painter Philip Guston. Driven and
consumed by art, Philip Guston painted and drew compulsively. This
book takes the reader from his early social realist murals and
easel paintings of the 1930s and 1940s, to the Abstract
Expressionist works of the 1950s and early 1960s, and finally to
the powerful new language of figurative painting, which he
developed in the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on more than thirty
years of his own research, the critic and curator, Robert Storr,
maps Guston's entire career in one definitive volume, providing a
substantial, accessible and revealing analysis of his work. With
more than 850 images, the book illustrates Guston's key works and
includes many unpublished paintings and drawings. An extensive
chronology, illustrated with photographs, letters, articles,
publications and other ephemera drawn from the artist's archives
and other sources, contextualizes Guston's life and provides
in-depth coverage of his life at home, his work in the studio, his
relationship with fellow artists and his many exhibitions. Guston
was able to speak about art with unrivalled passion and fluency. In
celebration of this, the book features Guston's own thoughts on his
drawings and his great heroes of the Italian Renaissance.
From essays on gender in the work of Louise Bourgeois to a review
of Art Spiegelman's comix memoir Maus, Writings on Art is expertly
curated from his prolific output and illustrated with 175 images to
accompany the texts. Written with Storr's signature intellect and
wit, the book is the definitive collection of his multi-faceted
writing and features the best of Storr's criticism, reviews,
essays, and other writings from the 1980s to the mid 2000s. A must
read for curators, students, artists, exhibition-goers and all
those interested in the art and culture of today.
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Ruth Asawa (Hardcover)
Tiffany Bell, Robert Storr
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Following the success of Writings on Art 1980-2005, HENI presents
the highly anticipated final volume to complete a two-volume
collection of writings on art by Robert Storr, one of the world's
leading art critics and curators. Featuring the best of Storr's
criticism - reviews, essays, articles, many of which previously
unpublished - from 2006 to the present day, the book includes his
texts on artists such as Gego, Carrie Mae Weems, David Hammons,
Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, El Anatsui and
Francesco Clemente. Written with his signature intellect and wit,
his writings range from essays on performances of femininity in
Cindy Sherman's photographic oeuvre to dialectics of race in the
work of Kara Walker. Expertly curated from his prolific output, and
illustrated with 175 images to accompany 51 texts, Writings on Art
is the definitive collection of Storr's multi-faceted writing with
his finger on the pulse of contemporary art - a must-read for
curators and students, artists, exhibition-goers and all those
interested in the art and culture of today.
The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date
Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair – cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world.
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Zhang, Huan (Paperback)
Yilmaz Dziewior, RoseLee Goldberg, Robert Storr
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R1,206
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Zhang Huan has emerged as one of the most important artists of the
past decade, a fearless explorer of the limits of the human body
and a key figure in the flourishing Chinese art scene. His earliest
performances, including 12 Square Meters, 65 Kilograms, and To
Raise the Water-Level in a Fishpond, subjected his body to grueling
tests of endurance while addressing the relationship between
physical endurance and spiritual tranquility. Zhang 's move to New
York in 1998 contributed to establish himself as a widely
recognized figure in the international contemporary art world,
staging performances in several cities around the globe, including
Sydney, Rome, Shanghai and Hamburg where he reflected on his
experiences in the cities he visited and his ethnic identity in a
foreign land. In 2006 Zhang established a studio in Shanghai, where
he began to seek a greater connection to Chinese heritage and
history. This marked a new direction in his work, as he turned from
performance to sculpture, painting, and installation. Through
creating large-scale sculpture in diverse media, such as ash from
local Buddhist temples, and with found objects, such as doors from
the Chinese countryside homes, Zhang Huan continues to explore new
ways to render his interest in the body and its language. A
significant aspect of Zhang's new work revolves around his interest
in Buddhism. Although Buddhist themes figured indirectly into his
early work, they took on a more prominent role after a visit to
Tibet in 2005. There, Zhang began to collect fragments of Buddhist
sculptures, which he then used as models for massive copper
figures. Upon his return to Shanghai, Zhang Huan began to collect
ash from local Buddhist temples for use in sculptures and
paintings. The use of burnt incense, the product of religious
offerings, strengthens the link between his art and Buddhist
practices.
It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his
first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the
following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an
uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in
visual art, writing, and performance. This major retrospective
examines the artist's influential career through more than 160
photographs, sculptures, soundworks, and videos he has made since
the early 1990s. These works deploy Waters's renegade humor to
reveal the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural
attitudes, moral codes, and shared tragedy. Waters has broadened
our understanding of American individualism, particularly as it
relates to queer identity, racial equality, and freedom of
expression. In bringing "bad taste" to the walls of galleries and
museums, he tugs at the curtain of exclusivity that can divide art
from human experience. Waters freely manipulates an image bank of
less-than-sacred, low-brow references-Elizabeth Taylor's
hairstyles, his own self-portraits, and pictures of individuals
brought into the limelight through his films, including his
counterculture muse Divine-to entice viewers to engage with his
astute and provocative observations about society. This richly
illustrated book explores themes including the artist's childhood
and identity; Pop culture and the movie business; Waters's
satirical take on the contemporary art world; and the transgressive
power of images. The catalogue features essays by BMA Senior
Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman; art historian and
activist Jonathan David Katz; critic, curator, and artist Robert
Storr; as well as an interview with Waters by photographer Wolfgang
Tillmans. Published in association with the Baltimore Museum of
Art. Exhibition dates: The Baltimore Museum of Art: October 7,
2018-January 6, 2019 Wexner Center for the Arts: February 2-April
28, 2019
Self-Portrait explores 30 years of artistic research by Paolo
Canevari (Rome, 1963), proposing a series of sculptures, drawings
and installations ranging from the first creations in the wake of
Arte Povera, to those made of rubber from the 1990s, up to the more
recent series Monuments of the Memory: Landscape and
Constellations. The works tell of Canevari's vision of art-making,
which moves from a classical training combined with a profound
conceptual research, while also animated by a strong political
character. Through the use of different media and materials - with
a predilection for the rubber of inner tubes and tyres - Canevari
adopts a language that is sometimes brutal, often ambiguous,
certainly evocative, to bring light into the dark territories of
man, understood both as an individual and as humanity. His radical
and subversive approach aims to stimulate a reaction in the
observer, with the intention, on the one hand, of breaking
prejudices and cliches, on the other of investigating personal,
intimate and inner aspects in relation to the work of art and its
universal meaning. The volume includes a critical text by Robert
Storr, two interviews with the artist collected respectively by
Robert Storr and Francesca Pietropaolo and by Shirin Neshat, and a
tribute to Canevari written by late Sicilian novelist Andrea
Camilleri. Text in English and Italian.
With vivid memories of his first visit to the Scottish National
Gallery in the 1970s and his initial encounter with Hugo van der
Goes' The Trinity Altarpiece, Rembrandt's A Woman in Bed,
Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs and Degas' Diego Martelli,
Robert Storr discusses the shifting balance of museum collections
from historically 'certified' classics to art whose status and
significance remains in active contention and from singular
'treasures' to ensembles that speak to the larger scope of an
artist's endeavour. Also Available: Unfinished Paintings:
Narratives of the Non-Finito Watson Gordon Lecture 2014 (ISBN
9781906270919), 'The Hardest Kind of Archetype': Reflections on Roy
Lichtenstein The Watson Gordon Lecture 2010 (ISBN 9781906270384),
Picasso's 'Toys for Adults' Cubism as Surrealism: The Watson Gordon
Lecture 2008 (ISBN 9781906270261), Sound, Silence, and Modernity in
Dutch Pictures of Manners The Watson Gordon Lecture 2007 (ISBN
9781906270254), Roger Fry's Journey From the Primitives to the
Post-Impressionists: Watson Gordon Lecture 2006 (ISBN
9781906270117).
Over the past thirty years, Y.Z. Kami has built a resounding oeuvre that spans both portraiture and abstraction, using direct observation, poetic reference, and repeated geometries to create poignant evocations of the sublime. This comprehensive monograph explores the breadth of Kami s work with over 300 color illustrations, and texts by leading scholars and curators Robert Storr, Laura Cumming, and Elena Geuna. Y.Z. Kami s large-scale portraits recreate the visceral experience of a face-to-face encounter, suggesting a connection to the presence of each subject. Through a matte, uniform haze, he depicts his subjects with eyes open or closed, gazing forward or looking down. Kami s focus on each individual s face reveals an inner life beneath immediate appearancess a feat that is particularly resonant in the context of contemporary portraiture.
Rendered in oil paint on linen, the portraits also recall Byzantine frescoes or Fayum funerary portraits, continuing the art historical quest to locate the unknown and the infinite within material form. In his abstract work, Kami continues this interplay of surface and interior, using forms inspired by architecture, geometry, and poetry. In the Endless Prayers series, prayers and verses in Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Sanskrit are cut into rectangular fragments and pasted into mandala formations, their spiraling patterns echoing the repetitive nature of prayer. Comprised of square or rectangular marks arranged in concentric circles, the Dome paintings create tessellated, pulsing voids as if passing from darkness into light.
Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern
times. His painting "September" is a response to the bombing of the
World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, made some four years
after the event. The eminent American critic and curator Robert
Storr, who has had a long working relationship with Richter,
explores both the painting and the event itself, through a very
personal account of his experience of being in New York on the day
of the bombing. Storr shows, through words, details and comparative
illustrations, how this painting is part of a current running
throughout Richter's career that responds to traumatic and
controversial events, including works based on the bombing of
cities in World War II and the capture of the Baader-Meinhof
terrorist group. It comes with a foreword by Sir Brian Urquhart.
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Denzil Hurley
Denzil Hurley; Introduction by Wallace Whitney; Text written by Gervais Marsh, Robert Storr
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In 1981, The Stuart Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation
dedicated to funding experimental public sculpture, and the
University of California, San Diego formed an extraordinary
partnership to create a major public, site-specific sculpture
collection with works throughout the campus. This collection has
played an important role in the arena of public art. Instead of
asking artists to create an object, without reference to the site,
they ask that each artist explore the campus carefully, and create
a site-specific piece that could be integrated into the beautifully
landscaped, 1,200-acre UCSD campus in La Jolla. The collection now
includes 20 works by some of the most important contemporary
artists, including William Wegman, Bruce Nauman, Kiki Smith, Robert
Irwin, Do Ho Suh and Mark Bradford, among others. Landmarks is an
updated edition of the only book focused on this premier collection
of site specific public art. The catalogue features an essay from
an interview with the collection's founding director, Mary Beebe;
an essay on the importance of the collection by Rob Storr; and
in-depth interviews with the 20 artists featured in the collection
and two artists whose work is underway. Published in association
with the Stuart Collection.
The fourth volume of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne
comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of
this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John
Baldessari (b. 1931) continues to interrogate the possibilities of
photographic appropriation, further developing his unique
strategies for the production of meaning and narrative within the
picture frame. Included in this crucial volume is the landmark Goya
series, which shows the artist revisiting his characteristic
photo-text pieces established early in his career. In the serial
trio Overlap, Intersection,and Junction, produced between 2000 and
2002, Baldessari riffs on the notion of pictorial space, with each
series building on the preceding one. Along with a full chronology,
an essay contributed by the eminent critic Robert Storr closely
examines a selection of these works, articulating their place
within the evolution of the artist's career and their much broader
historical climate. Published in association with Marian Goodman
Gallery
Schjeldahl provides a sharp perspective on individual artists,
their work, art-world events and ethics, and new, creative
directions. Above all, he challenges established views, infecting
readers with his passion for art. "To read Schjeldahl is not to
agree or disagree, but rather to enter the enchanting flow of a
fertile imagination".--Art in America. (HC:1991)
The first comprehensive monograph on painter and poet Robert De
Niro, Sr. (1922-1993), a major contributor to postwar American art,
known for his unique, bold style of painterly representation. De
Niro was a visionary artist in the early days of Abstract
Expressionism and a celebrated member of the New York School of
painters, along with Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson
Pollock. Over the course of his fifty-year career, he painted
portraits, still lifes, the female nude, and interiors with a
signature gestural painting style and brilliant color, which bear
the influence of Henri Matisse as well as his teacher, Hans
Hofmann. During the height of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in
the 1960s, De Niro remained faithful to his own vision in his
paintings and poetry; today his powerful figural works are ripe for
rediscovery. This lavishly illustrated book brings together De Niro
s paintings, prints, and drawings as well as a
never-before-published selection of his writings and poetry.
Featuring essays by noted scholars and an illustrated biography
including many unpublished photographs and ephemera, this seminal
volume explores the depth and breadth of De Niro s oeuvre.
The Cage paintings were conceived as a single coherent group, and
displayed for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Their
titles, Cage (1) (6), pay homage to the American avant- garde
composer John Cage (1912 92). In his Lecture on Nothing , Cage
famously declared I have nothing to say and I m saying it . Richter
is equally suspicious of ideologies and any claim to absolute
truth. He shies away from giving psychological interpretations to
his paintings, preferring to allow viewers and critics to make up
their own minds. Leading critic Robert Storr considers the
importance of the Cage paintings within Richter s practice and
within the wider context of abstract art. A series of
extraordinary, detailed photographs document the development of
each painting, day by day, and show the artist at work on these
monumental canvases, giving unique insight into his working
methods.
Ilya Kabakov (*1933) is one of the former Soviet Union's most
important and influential international artists today. After the
two-volume catalogue raisonne of paintings (2008) and 2017's
catalogue raisonne of installations, we are now publishing a
complete overview of Kabakov's recent paintings. Different ideas,
phases, and styles unfold across the 350 works of art, but the
artist's inimitable signature can always be recognised. Visual
themes include, for example, the colour white, the relationship
between complete and incomplete, and the combination of either
various styles or of painting and photography. Still, all of the
pieces have one thing in common: they all pursue a conceptual
approach and make references to art history.
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Caro - Close Up (Hardcover)
Julius Bryant, Martina Droth; Contributions by Robert Storr
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R1,697
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With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b.
1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors.
Caro: Close Up accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work
in an American museum since his retrospective at the Museum of
Modern Art in 1975. Although celebrated for his large, brightly
painted abstract sculptures, Caro has also produced drawings and
small-scale works of a more private nature throughout his career.
The full range of his oeuvre includes works on paper, sculptures
constructed in paper and cardboard, and abstract works of steel,
bronze, and clay. Featuring new photography of more than sixty
works drawn almost entirely from Caro's studio and family
collections, this publication examines the critical responses that
Caro's work has elicited from the 1950s to the present and
considers his role in current artistic practice. The authors
explore the ways the sculptor has used the physical properties of
his materials, while Caro himself discusses his exhibition and
installation practices. Published for the Yale Center for British
Art Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British
Art(10/18/12-12/30/12)
A must-have for the core contemporary art audience: Robert Storr's
singular and long-awaited book is unprecedented in treating the
full range of Louise Bourgeois's artistic achievement. In a career
spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a vast body of
work that enriched the formal language of modern art while it
expressed her intense inner struggles with unprecedented candor and
unpredictable invention. Her solo 1982 retrospective at The Museum
of Modern Art launched an extraordinarily productive late career,
making her a much-honored and vivid presence on the international
art scene until her death in 2010 at the age of 98. Trained as a
painter and printmaker, Bourgeois embraced sculpture as her primary
medium and experimented with a range of materials over the years,
including marble, plaster, bronze, wood, and latex. Bourgeois
contributed significantly to Surrealism, Postminimalist, and
installation art, but her work always remained fiercely independent
of style or movement. With more than 1000 illustrations, Intimate
Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois comprehensively
surveys her immense oeuvre in unmatched depth. Writing from a
uniquely intimate perspective, as a close personal friend of
Bourgeois, and drawing on decades of research, Robert Storr
critically evaluates her achievements and reveals the complexity
and passion of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth
century.
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