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Born to a prominent family in Havana but exiled to the United States as a girl, Ana Mendieta (1948and#150;1985) is regarded as one of the most significant artists of the postwar era. During her too-brief career, she produced a distinctive body of work that includes drawings, installations, performances, photographs, and sculptures. Less well known is her remarkable and prolific production of films. This richly illustrated catalogue presents a series of sequential color stills from each of twenty-one original Super 8 films that have been newly preserved and digitized in high definition for the 2015 exhibition, combined with related photographs, and reference still images from all of the artistand#8217;s 104 filmworks; together these illustrations sample the full range of the artistand#8217;s film practice from 1971 to 1981. The book includes Mendietaand#8217;s first published comprehensive filmography resulting from three years of collaborative research conducted by the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection and the University of Minnesota as well as original essays by John Perreault, Michael Rush, Rachel Weiss, Lynn Lukkas, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, and Laura Wertheim Joseph. The first book-length treatment of Mendietaand#8217;s moving-image practice,
Covered in Time and History aims to locate her films centrally within her larger oeuvre and at the forefront of the multidisciplinary shifts that characterized visual arts practice during the 1970s.
Published in association with the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
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"Engaging, especially when addressing topics that remain urgent today, such as net art and the representation of black artists. Seeing the visual creations laid out from Schwartzand#8217;s perspective, the decade appears energetic and imaginative again."
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and#8220;A must-read.and#8221;
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and#8220;Think of the world here as remapped and#8211; Borderless. Boundless. Indefinable.and#8221;
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and#8220;Engaging. . . . Recommended.and#8221;
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and#8220;Little-known aspects of Schinderand#8217;s life, his relationship with his mentors, and the development of his unique theories about space enrich the narrative.and#8221;
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and#8220;The house is a radical watershed by any criterion. . . . Captures the play of light and shadow, and, above all, the building's intimacy with its setting.and#8221;
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"The photographs are a feast for the eyes; the book as a whole offers a savory blend of views on southern
California living and architectural design."
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"[An] illuminating study. . . . Arneson drew continually from his personal reservoir of untamed comedy to create works that resolutely crude."
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"A long-awaited and in-depth monograph of the life and work of Robert Arneson, an artist who has infused the alchemy of clay with the funk aesthetic of everyday objects and self-portraiture, in ways that elevate their sustaining power through his insightful social and political observations." Ten Best Art Books of 2013.
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"Distinguished art historian and critic Jonathan Fineberg excels at chronicling the psychosocial intersection between contemporary art and artists, and the evolving fabric of American values."
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and#8220;Artist relishing his role as troublemaker: The piece had to go, it was explained to Arneson, because the vice president of Kaiser Industries saw it and said, and#8216;Goddamn, no f- artist is going to attack American capitalism in this manner.' The piece was eventually bought by an Arneson student and collector, whose husband hated it so much that she later said that conflict over it had contributed to her divorce.and#8221;
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"The essays . . . are engaging . . . backs its insights up with enough visuals to earn readers' attention."
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andquot;A solid summary of American art of a recent decade, as curated by the major museums.andquot;
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andquot;Invaluable to all students and scholars seeking an art historical account of contemporary art.andquot;
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Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s is the first major museum survey to historicize art made in the United States during this pivotal decade. Showcasing approximately sixty-five works by forty-five artists, the book includes installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, video, sound, and digital art.
Come as You Are offers an overview of art made in the United States between 1989 and 2001, a period bookended by two indelible events: the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11. The book is organized around three principal themes--the and#147;identity politicsand#8221; debates, the digital revolution, and globalization; its title refers to the 1992 song by Nirvana and to the issues of identity that were complicated by effects of new technologies and global migration. All the artists in the exhibition made their initial entry into the art historical discourse during the 1990s, and they reflect the increasingly heterogeneous nature of the art world during this time, when many women artists and artists of color attained unprecedented prominence. Contributors include Huey Copeland, Jennifer Gonzand#225;lez, Suzanne Hudson, Joan Kee, Frances Jacobus-Parker, Kris Paulsen, Paulina Pobocha, and John Tain.
Published in association with the Montclair Art Museum
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The art world is no longer defined by the activity of traditional art centers such as New York, Berlin, Beijing, or London, but is instead shaped by many cities, small and large. These new artistic communities, each reflecting the history, culture, and conditions of its region, have established a vibrant network for contemporary art. This groundbreaking book explores the hybrid nature of todayand#8217;s international artistic landscape by introducing readers to the art scenes in six featured citiesand#151;Beirut, Lebanon; Cali, Colombia; Cluj, Romania; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; San Francisco, USA; and Tangier, Morocco. In bringing together work by artists whose efforts have anchored each cityand#8217;s cultural scene,
Six Lines of Flight maps the pathways between them, illuminating the dynamic, global, interconnected spirit of twenty-first-century art.
Essays by writers active in each region are accompanied by color images of representative artworks, along with brief texts on key local artists and organizations. An introductory text by Apsara DiQuinzio and thematic essays by Hou Hanru, Pamela M. Lee, and Tarek Elhaik and Dominic Willsdon further contextualize cultural production in the featured cities in relation to common themes such as histories in construction, cosmopolitanism, center-periphery dynamics, collectivity, networks, and the effects of economic and cultural renaissance.
Exhibition dates: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; September 15-December 31, 2012
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Today, R. M. Schindlerand#8217;s Kings Road House is celebrated as an icon of early modern architecture, but this wasnand#8217;t the case when it was finished in 1922. Though Schindler and his wife Pauline recognized its genius early on, its radical appearance wasand#151;and remainsand#151;incomprehensible to many. Lavishly illustrated with forty-five new photographs, this book is an incisive examination of the house, placing it in the context of the architectand#8217;s career and clarifying its influence on modern architecture and its practitioners. Little-known aspects of Schindlerand#8217;s life, his relationship with his mentors, and the development of his unique theories about space enrich the narrative.
Robert Sweeney focuses on the construction of the house and the people who lived, worked, and performed there, demonstrating the buildingand#8217;s significance in the social history of Southern California. He includes new research on Schindlerand#8217;s educational and personal background in Vienna and a discussion of the critical influence of Pauline Schindler in formulating the social underpinnings of the house. Judith Sheineand#8217;s essay places the house in the context of Schindlerand#8217;s career, in which it established the basis of the spatial development of his work. She also examines the influence of the house on the work of numerous architects from Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry.
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"This book establishes R.M. Schindlerand#8217;s Kings Road House amongst the icons of modernist housingand#151;as crucial as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, or Frank Lloyd Wright to the story of twentieth-century residential design. Weaving together an impressive blend of primary sources, Sweeney and Sheine illuminate heretofore unknown or neglected stories regarding Schindlerand#8217;s life, his relationship with his mentorsand#151;most notably, Wright himselfand#151;and the development of his unique theories about space. These essays will interest both scholars and practitioners of architecture as well as readers wishing to learn more about the development of architectural modernism in general.and#8221;and#151;J. Philip Gruen, School of Design and Construction, Washington State University.
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The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of Arnesonand#8217;s career in a rich survey of color reproductions, this book is at once a study of the trajectory of contemporary culture, the work of Robert Arneson, and the relationship between the two. It shows how Arnesonand#8217;s work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Jonathan Fineberg develops his ongoing work toward a psychosocial history of art as he proceeds through Arnesonand#8217;s careerand#151;chronicling his early life, the formation of a personal style, and finding a unique subject matter in his famous post-1970 turn to self-portraiture.
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"I went to Davis and I began spending time in TB9. It's wonderful to have a major book on Arneson that describes Bob, his studio door mostly open, working, working and so we all were working, workingand#151;always encouragement always looking. It was the place I needed at that timeand#151;he included everyone in the idea of making and doing."and#151;Bruce Nauman
"Fineberg delves deeply into the life and art of one of America's most important and under-known artists."and#151;Gary Garrels, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"The book reveals a body of work that is as complex, entangled, and internally dynamic as the world that the artist encountered."and#151;Hannah Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago
About the Author
Howard Oransky is Director of the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. There he has coorganized the exhibitions Lynn Hershman Leeson: Investigations (2011), Sacred Space, Contested Terrain (2012), and The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now (2013). Oransky previously served as Director of Continuing Education at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Director of Planning at the Walker Art Center.
Table of Contents
Foreword (Lora S. Urbanelli)
Lenders to the Exhibition
Chaotic Input: Art in the United States, 1989and#150;2001 (Alexandra Schwartz)
Unfinished Business as Usual: African American Artists, New York Museums, and the 1990s
(Huey Copeland)
Costume: Come as You Arenand#8217;t (Jennifer A. Gonzaand#180;lez)
After Endgame: American Painting in the 1990s (Suzanne Hudson)
As the World Turns in 1990sand#8217; America (Joan Kee)
Ill Communication: Anxiety and Identity in 1990sand#8217; Net Art (Kris Paulsen)
Event Horizons: Gabriel Orozco and the 1990s (Paulina Pobocha)
A Place to Call Home: Artists In and Out of Los Angeles, 1989and#150;2001 (John Tain)
Plates
1989and#150;1993
1994and#150;1997
1998and#150;2001 (Alexandra Schwartz)
Selected Chronology: Art, Culture, and Society in the 1990s (Frances Jacobus-Parker)
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments (Alexandra Schwartz)