Carol Bove(1st Edition) (Spotlight Series) by JohannaBurton, Carol Bove Hardcover, 76 Pages, Published 2019 by David Zwirner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-64423-020-6, ISBN: 1-64423-020-8
"Carol Bove presents new work by “sculpture's woman of steel,” as coined by Randy Kennedy in The New York Times. Her new sculptures expand on her investigations of materiality and form.Characterized by compositions of various types of steel, Bove’s ongoing series of "collage sculptures," begun in 2016, amalgamates theoretical and art-historical influences across time periods and disciplines. To create these lyrical and abstract assemblag ..."
" Open Systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the last years of the 1960s and the early 1970s as they sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the time. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, the era saw the beginning of a radical departure from art's traditional focus to a new and wide-ranging experimentation with mediums that included dance, perform ..."
"Jointly published by the Getty Research Institute and the New Museum. The first anthology to assemble the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and curator Marcia Tucker. These influential, hard-to-obtain texts—many of which have never before been published—by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York’s New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing while reth ..."
"Essays, dialogues, and art projects that illuminate the changing role of art as it responds to radical economic, political, and global shifts.How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term "public art" is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as "new genre public art," "social practice," or "socially engaged art" may imply a synergy between the role ..."
"With her Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s, Cindy Sherman became one of the era's most important and influential artists. Since then, her metamorphosing self-portraits and appropriation of genres can be seen as a continuous investigation of representation and its complicated relationship to photography. Sherman and her work are often discussed in terms of postmodern theorie ..."
"Known since the early 1990s for his photographs of young people in their social environment a " clubs, gay pride parades, warehouse parties a " Wolfgang Tillmans created an enigmatic, sexy and highly innovative photography while inventing new icons of beauty and style for gallery goers and magazine readers alike. This book is an updated and expanded edition of his 2002 monograph, featuring a new survey on his work from the past ten year ..."
"Through a rigorous and exacting use of material, space, and photography, Leslie Hewitt provides an understated reflection on our contemporary experience of history, images, and the passing of time."--Page 10."
"Sarah Sze (born 1969) has earned deserved acclaim since the late 1990s for her intricate assemblages of everyday consumer products, painstakingly arranged by hand into immense, site-specific installations that engage the viewer in a dizzying play of perspective and scale. Often every crevice of an architectural space is utilized in her complex constructions, composed of thousands of objects, works that converge at the intersection of dr ..."
Ellsworth Kelly(1st Edition) Diagonal by JohannaBurton, Ellsworth Kelly Hardcover, 56 Pages, Published 2009 by Matthew Marks Gallery ISBN-13: 978-1-880146-51-4, ISBN: 1-880146-51-7
"As spacious and sleek as the work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a black or white rectangle with a contrasting black, white or colored rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the canvas below. In the catalogue, Johanna Burton writes, "What Kelly is producing does not end at the edge... a ..."
"A leading practitioner of conceptual art, Mel Bochner (b. 1940) was one of the first artists in the 1960s to introduce language into the visual field. Despite their significance, these contributions remain unexplored in art historical scholarship. This fascinating book provides the first overview of Bochner’s language-based works from the past forty years, including previously unpublished images and projects.Long preoccupied by language ..."
"This thematic selection of recent work from nine established and emerging international sculptors--the eldest born in 1947 and the youngest in 1974--collects the ways they are giving shape to the fleeting, ephemeral, theoretical and difficult-to-explain. From Charles Long's delicate, poetic and personal debris assemblages to Bjorn Dahlem's quirky, elegant models of black holes and Andrea Cohen's styrofoam and packing-peanut networks, th ..."
"“Trigger is a vital reminder that identity politics, far from being a failure, as the right and left alike are quick to tell us, is alive, well, and getting on with changing the world.” ―Aruna D’SouzaThe accompanying catalog for the New Museum’s exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features ..."
"Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence a ..."
"This volume is published for a new site-specific installation that incorporates several films by Italian artist Adelita Husni Bey (born 1985), including the premiere of a major new work. Chiron continues Husni Bey’s explorations of the complexity of collectivity and the human and social consequences of imperialism.The introductory text to the catalog, “On exercise and outcome,” by New Museum Associate Curator Helga Christoffersen, featu ..."
Haim Steinbach Once Again the World Is Flat by Tom Eccles, JohannaBurton 100 Pages, Published 2013 by 0001-01-01 00:00:00 ISBN-13: 978-1-936192-34-2, ISBN: 1-936192-34-9
"Canvases and Careers Today brings together contributions that relate to the same conference organized by the Institut fur Kunstkritik, Frankfurt am Main. Its goal is to provide deeper insights and more complexity to current debates on the relationship between criticism, art, and the market. 'It was especially interesting for us to watch a kind of transatlantic divide happening. While the US-American participants mostly declared criticis ..."
"Announcing the new Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series:Princeton University Art Museum Monographs is a new series of in-depth explorations of the museum's rich collections. Beautifully designed and produced, these books by leading and emerging scholars offer new insights and perspectives on a single work or group of works from Princeton's distinguished permanent collection.Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom ..."
Pop Art(1st Edition) Contemporary Perspectives: Princeton University Art Museum by JohannaBurton, Princeton University Hardcover, Published 2007 by Princeton & New Haven: Princeton University Art Museum/Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-943012-44-5, ISBN: 0-943012-44-9