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A multifaceted response to issues concerning personal privacy and government power by writers, artists, and others
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Edward Hopper (1882-1967), long recognized as the premier 20th-century American realist painter, was introverted and reclusive. The discovery of fifty-eight previously unknown letters and a note from Alta Hilsdale (1884-1948) to Hopper brings to light a previously unknown, possib...ly one-sided romantic relationship. This book presents these letters.
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Christian Marclay (born 1955) explores the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Published in a 3-volume magazine format, this catalogue aim...s to capture the spontaneity of his process-oriented practice.
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<![CDATA[A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art that travels to Dallas and Los Angeles, this book on the work of Laura... Owens (b. 1970) features an incisive introduction by Scott Rothkopf, critical essays, literary texts,and short commentaries on a variety of subjects related to the artist's broad interests, which range from folk art and needlework to comics and wallpaper. Reflections by more than twenty of Owens's fellow artists, collaborators, assistants, dealers, family members, and friends offer an array of perspectives on her work at different periods in her life, beginning with her high school years in Ohio and ending with her current exhibition. A rich trove of more than a thousand images, drawn from the artist's personal archive and largely unpublished before now, includes personal correspondence, journals, academic transcripts, handwritten notes, source material, exhibition announcements, clippings, and installation photographs. Together, all of these elements provide a rare and intimate look at how an artist might make her way in the world as well as how art gets made, movements take hold, and relationships evolve over time. Each book includes a specially designed set of stickers that readers can use to customize their own cover.]]>
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An insightful and long overdue reassessment of the full scope of the career of Robert Indiana, who combined Pop Art, hard-edged abstraction, and language-based conceptualism
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Examines how our ability to function as a democracy is compromised by governmental secrecy. Looking at contemporary art, this book explores notions of institutional concealment through the work of such artists as the Bureau of Inverse Technology, Jenny Holzer, Lin + Lam, Mark Lom...bardi, Trevor Paglen, and Susan Schluppi.
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For nearly sixty years, Richard Artschwager (b 1923) has undertaken an unrelenting investigation of art's ability to mediate contemporary experience and perception. In this book, the breadth of the artist's idealistic, diverse work, and unconventional materials, such as Formica, ...rubberized hair, and Celotex are fully illustrated and explored.
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition celebrating the Wagners' promised gift of nearly 800 works of art to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Musaee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 20, 20...15-March 6, 2016, and at the Centre Pompidou, Spring 2016.
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Explores the role of mirrors, spinning, and neurotic architecture - a feeling of psychological breakdown - in the work of one of America's contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy.
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Explores the artistic practices that employ evocation - the calling forth of past emotions, desires, frustrations, and memories - as a mode of connecting past and present. Featuring the work of artists working in a variety of media, this book challenges the conventional approach ...to history whereby the past is kept at a distance as historical fact.
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