Open Systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and 1970s as they sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade and make their work more responsive to the world around them. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, the mid-Sixties saw a radical ...
"What is a portrait today?" is the defining question of this volume. Essays by such leading scholars and critics as Maurice Berger, Kenneth E. Silver, Max Kozloff, and Michele Wallace propose fascinating answers, framing portraiture through its age-old kinship with status and wealth; its employ in fashion, politics, and advertising; and its ...
Anish Kapoor's installation for Tate Modern is the third in The Unilever Series of commissions exploring the vast space of the Turbine Hall and discovering the endless shifts in scale possible between the building and the audience. The book represents a unique record of this extraordinary work, documenting the creative process through ...
Artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages - powerful constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war.This critically acclaimed book, available for the first time in paperback, ...
Mark Wallinger's practice has progressed from painting to encompass photography, video, sculpture and installation work. Using irony and satire, he explores issues of identity, particularly class, race and religion. This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition of his work.
Museums are made to be looked at by others, but what happens when a museum looks at itself? Donna De Salvo has choreographed just such an event in Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks at Itself, an admirably ambitious exhibition that excavates the pictures, powers, objects, and objections that comprise and construct a cultural institution.
Lee Bontecou became widely known early in the 1960s for her welded steel sculptures into which various fabrics, metals and found objects were incorporated. By the mid-1960s she began to experiment with plastics, epoxy and other synthetic materials to create moulded rather than assembled forms. As her work evolved, it increasingly made reference to ...
Essay by Mary Ann Caws. Text by Donna De Salvo. This collection of essays on surrealism by the Wexner Center for the Arts explores the achievements that have allowed the surrealists a continuing hold on our imaginations. This presentation of Staging Surrealism comprises key surrealist paintings, sculptures, and photographs from three leading ...
The contemplative and subtle paintings of Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) continue to seduce. His work remains admired for its simplicity and directness, but is in fact highly complex: Morandi bridged the gap between a modernist denial of subject and a contemporary preoccupation with meaning. The intensity of his exploration and his capacity to ...
In 1995, the resolutely reclusive Ray Johnson reemerged into the spotlight when he died in a mysterious and spectacular way, leading to the discovery of thousands of works of art in his house. Drawing upon this vast trove, Donna De Salvo, the Wexner Center's Curator at Large, has organized Ray Johnson: Correspondences, the first comprehensive ...
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