Full-length study of Minimalist sculptor Robert Morris. Berger takes into account the social and intellectual clime of the 1960s as a background to Morris' work. Includes 82 black-and-white illustrations, as well as notes on the artist and an index. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Williams College Museum of Art, October 3 - November 5, 1976. Traveled to The Johnson Gallery of Middlebury College, January 5 - 30, 1977; University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, June 26 - August 5, 1977; Herbert F. ... [details]
Artist's book by Andy Warhol featuring his black-and-white photographs culled from his archives and writings on the theme of America. Includes chapters on Window Shopping, People, Physique Pictorial, All-Stars, National Geographic, Montauk, Newport, Lenox, New York City, Washington D. ... [details]
Critical theory documenting "The New York School" by Irving Sandler. Artists include Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, Grace Hartigan, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Ellsworth Kelly, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Al Held, Richard Stankiewicz, Joan Mitchell, John Chamberlain and Mark di Suvero. ... [details]
Critical critique of transformation of women into goddess and sacred animals in ancient art. Chapters include "The primal Female"; "The Bird"; "The Lion"; "The Dog"; "The Serpent"; "The Butterfly"; "The Ewe and the Ram"; "The Spider"; "The Deer"; "The Fish"; "The Pig"; "The Cow and the Bull"; "The Scorpion"; and "The Bear. ... [details]
Large-scale book by John Russell providing wide overview of history of modern art. Artists include Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, David Smith, Robert Smithson and Frank Stella. ... [details]
"What the Sound Looks Like is a visual celebration of the music of the Talking Heads by over fifty international contemporary artists." -- publisher's statement. Texts by Talking Heads and Frank Olinsky. ... [details]
"United States" is a book of lyrics and photographs documenting Laurie Anderson's epic musical work, "United States I - IV," which she performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1984. In an interview by John Diliberto and Kimberly Haas in 1985, Anderson said that much of the performance is "highly critical of technology . ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, September 16 - December 5, 1982; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 15 - March 6, 1983; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, March 22 - May 8, 1983; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, May 21 - July 10, 1983; the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, July 27 - September 4, 1983; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 18 - October 30, 1983. ... [details]
"Artistic director, playwright, set designer, and star, Charles Ludlam spent twenty years with New York's Ridiculous Theatrical Company synthsizing wit, parody, vaudeville farce, melodrama, and satire to create a modern American comic theater that gave reckless immediacy to classical stagecraft. ... [details]
