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Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light (Guggenheim Museum Publications)
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Dan Flavin (Author)
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J. Fiona Rageb (Editor)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
A Guggenheim Museum Publication Dan Flavin (1933-1996) was hailed for his pioneering use of light and color divorced from traditional artistic contexts. Employing only commercial fluorescent lights, Flavin devised a radical new art form that circumvented the limits imposed by frames, pedestals, and other conventional means of display. His embrace of the unadorned fluorescent light as an aesthetic object placed him at the forefront of Minimal art. This book, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, draws upon the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's extensive holdings of Flavin's work, which includes representative examples of each of the formats he developed over the course of his career. Flooded with color on every page, this volume provides a wide-ranging view of Flavin's work and intellectual thought, bringing together contributions by a number of critics and art historians, and including excerpted writings by the artist. illustrated in full color, 9 1/4 x 11 3/4" J. FIONA RAGHEB is associate curator for Collections and Exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin Nov. 6, 1999-Feb. 13, 2000
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Dan Graham
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Brian Hatton (Author)
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Friedrich Wolfram Heubach (Author)
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Christine van Assche (Author)
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Adachiara Zevi (Author)
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Alexander Alberro (Author)
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Gloria Moure (Author)
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Dan Graham (Author)
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Mark Francis (Contributor)
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Eric de Bruyn (Contributor)
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Mike Metz (Contributor)
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Apolonija Sustersic (Contributor)
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Poligrafa (Editor)
This remarkably detailed and lavishly illustrated book is an absolutely essential reference to the work and thought of the American artist Dan Graham. As both an artist and a theoretician and critic of art and architecture, Graham's work in the media of video, installation, and sculpture rigorously explore the artistic ramifications of human imposition on the natural and built environment, often situating itself at the intersection of art and architecture. This volume includes extensive notes by Graham describing each project, its installation, and its intention. Along with two interviews with the artist, it provides unprecedented insight into his ideas and their expression.
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Donald Judd
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David Batchelor (Author)
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John Jervis (Author)
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David Raskin (Author)
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Nicholas Serota (Author)
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Richard Schiff (Author)
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D.A.P./Tate (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd (1928-1994) changed the course of modern sculpture. Seen as a leading figure in Minimalism (a term he disliked), Judd constantly confounded expectations through the breadth of his own vision and the intensity of his critical engagement with both his own and other artists' work. This is a fully illustrated examination of his work containing 100 color and 63 black-and-white illustrations. The catalog features essays by leading authorities from around the world and is the most comprehensive and up-to-date publication on Judd currently available. - A. Rasmussen -
One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were later industrially manufactured in galvanized iron, steel, Plexiglas, and plywood. His use of vibrant color, polished and reflective metals, and brightly hued lacquer confounded and continues to confound expectations of what "minimalist" sculpture should look like. This lavishly illustrated survey features 41 works from collections around the world, many of them large scale, each illustrated with full catalogue entries alongside many other major works by Judd. Contributors Nicholas Serota (Director of the Tate), Rudi Fuchs (former Director of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), American critics Richard Schiff and David Raskin, and British artist and critic David Batchelor explore the conflicts between previous critical interpretations of Judd and his own philosophical, political, and moral understanding of his work. Judd's critical response to the work of other artists is examined, as is the importance of color to his work, and his reaction to new man-made materials and artificially generated color in the late-20th-century environment. A section on Judd's installations at Marfa in Texas, and an extensive new chronology, compiled by Judd's assistant, Jeff Kopie, are also included. Donald Judd compromises the most thorough and up-to-date publication on Judd in print today.
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Donald Judd: Colorist
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Dietmar Elger (Author)
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Donald Judd (Author)
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Martin Engler (Contributor)
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William Agee (Contributor)
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Hatje Cantz Publishers (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
Up till now, the question of color has largely been neglected in the extensive reception of [Judd's] oeuvre. This publication, lavishly illustrated with full-page color pictures, concentrates in detail for the first time on this crucial aspect of Donald Judd's work.
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Eva Hesse
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James Meyer (Author)
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Briony Fer (Author)
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Renate Petzinger (Author)
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Ann Temkin (Author)
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Gioia Timpanelli (Author)
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Elisabeth Sussman (Editor)
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Yale University Press (Editor)
Eva Hesse, a pivotal figure in the development of postwar international art, created paintings, sculpture, and works on paper that were striking in their beauty and playful sensibility. Although much has been written about Hesse's dramatic life--her childhood flight from Nazi Germany, her struggles to gain acceptance as a young female artist, her battle with cancer, and her tragic death in 1970 at the age of 34--her art has yet to receive the critical attention it deserves. This lavishly illustrated catalogue redresses that omission, focusing on Hesse's innovative working methods and choices of materials as well as on the larger aesthetic and philosophical questions raised by her artistic practice. The book presents and documents over two hundred works by Hesse in all media. Particular attention is devoted to the degradation and aging of her sculptures over the past three decades. Essays by a distinguished team of writers deal with themes of mutability and decay in Hesse's art; discuss her little-known early career in New York and Germany; explore her innovative use of translucent materials; and examine the role of drawing and collage in her creative process.
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Flesh: Architectural Probes
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E. Diller (Author)
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R. Scofidio (Author)
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Princeton Architectural Press (Editor)
The work of New York-based architects Diller + Scofidio is consistently at the cutting edge of current thought, helping to radically redefine the role of the architect and architecture in contemporary society. Targeting the body as "a site of transient inscriptions, inseparable from program," they constructed Flesh, a book/project that, in their words, "maps out strategies for 'contractual space' in which architecture can perform critically within encoded spaces of privacy and publicity." The result is a dynamic publication that is not so much a book about their projects as it is a reworking of their projects -- interwoven with multiple strands of text and imagery, Flesh is a new "indexical structure" that allows the reader to determine diverse paths through the document. Diller + Scofidio is a collaborative team involved in cross-disciplinary work that incorporates architecture with the performing and the visual arts.
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Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
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Robert Storr (Author)
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Gerhard Richter (Author)
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the inaturali evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. In every level of his varied output--from his austere photo-based realism of the early 60s, to his brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 80s, to his startling cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group--Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting should be. The result has been among the most convincing renewal of painting's vitality to be found in late 20th- and early 21st-century art. With an extensive and insightful critical essay by curator Robert Storr, a recent interview with the artist, a chronology, an exhibition history, and nearly 300 color and duotone reproductions, Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting marks a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary art in general, and Gerhard Richter in particular.
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I Bought Andy Warhol
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Richard Polsky (Author)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
In the tradition of Liar's Poker and Kitchen Confidential, the inside scoop on one man's quest to own the perfect Warhol painting. In 1987 art dealer Richard Polsky set aside $100,000 to purchase for his private collection a painting by famed Pop artist Andy Warhol--a process that took him 12 years. His journey, spanning the art world of the go-go 1980s to the recession of the 1990s, is recounted in this funny, fast-paced, and intensely readable expose. Artists, gallery owners, auction houses, and collectors all play a role in this entertaining tale that illuminates not only Warhol the person--and his place in art history--but also the machinations and marketing that fueled his celebrity, driving the price of his paintings to the top of the market (in 1998 publisher Si Newhouse bought Orange Marilyn for $17.3 million--the highest price ever paid per square inch for a work of contemporary art). As an industry insider, Polsky reveals the relationships that make the art world go round. I Bought Andy Warhol is a behind-the-scenes look at that world--a look that reveals it to be filled with humor, hypocrisy, gossip, greed, manipulation, and money.
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