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Karen Kilimnik»rank: 1124321by: Dominic Molon, Karen Kilimnik
: :In the 1980s, critics compared Karen Kilimnik's narrative and jumbled installations to the previous decade's 'scatter art,' they have since become cult favorites of a new generation of artists and curators. Her drawings and paintings from the early 1990s targeted then-current discussions on art and glamour, and the emergence of women artists whose sensibility was not that of feminist theory. A portrait of Hugh Grant, post-arrest, was likened to Degas, Warhol and Jim Shaw's Thrift Store Paintings. More recently she's taken up fairy-tale themes, with dashing barons, tinkling chandeliers, wolves and sleighs--a magical world in which history, myth and reality coexist. The diversity of Kilimnik's work, which has continued to ... |
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967»rank: 551103by: Dominic Molon, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, Dan Graham, Richard Hell, Matthew Higgs, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Bob Nickas, Jan Tumlir
: :The dynamic relationship between rock music and visual art crosses continents, generations, and cultures. Beginning with Andy Warhol’s involvement with The Velvet Underground in 1967, artists have maintained a strong connection to rock. Artists such as Slater Bradley, Mike Kelley, and Raymond Pettibon have created album covers and music videos for rock bands, while rock musicians such as Bryan Ferry, John Lennon, and Peter Townsend have emerged from art schools, and punk and new wave bands such as Talking Heads and Sonic Youth have shared the same social and artistic milieu as artists including Robert Longo and Richard Prince. Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 looks at ... |
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Wolfgang Tillmans»rank: 752140by: Julie Ault, Daniel Birnbaum, Dominic Molon, Russell Ferguson, Mark Wigley, Lane Relyea
: :Few artists have changed the manner in which photographic images are made, read, and received over the past two decades as dramatically as German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968). One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans’s work is internationally recognized for its powerful reflections on the often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life.With images culled from the entirety of Tillmans’s career, this generously illustrated book accompanies the artist’s first retrospective exhibition in the United States and features the potent effects of his portraits, abstractions, and structural and sculptural motifs. Essays by leading scholars examine the context of the German art and pop ... |
Art in Chicago: 1945-1995»rank: 723963by: Dennis Adrian, Staci Boris, John Corbett, Kate Horsfield, Barbara Jaffee, Judith Russi Kirshner, Carmela Rago, Franz Schulze, Peter Selz, Bill Stamets, Monique Meloche, Dominic Molon
: :Few artists have changed the manner in which photographic images are made, read, and received over the past two decades as dramatically as German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968). One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans’s work is internationally recognized for its powerful reflections on the often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life.With images culled from the entirety of Tillmans’s career, this generously illustrated book accompanies the artist’s first retrospective exhibition in the United States and features the potent effects of his portraits, abstractions, and structural and sculptural motifs. Essays by leading scholars examine the context of the German art and pop ... |
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Hernan Bas»rank: 1004902by: Mark Coetzee, Robert Hobbs, Dominic Molon, Hernan Bas
: :The work of rising Miami artist Hernan Bas indulges in the production of romantic, melancholic, old world imagery that makes reference to Wilde, Huysmans and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period in literature. Reviewing Bas' 'pictures of willowy young men filtered through screens of swipey, streaky acrylic and gouache,' The New York Times' Holland Cotter once wrote, 'To me, his paintings are elements in a larger, continuous conceptual-performance piece about being gay in twenty-first-century America. He understands that 'gay' is a larger and more interesting category than 'artist,' and one still embattled and historically underexplored. I value whatever he brings to that history.' This volume presents 38 works ... |
Situation Comedy: Humor In Recent Art»rank: 998495by: Dominic Molon, Michael Rooks, Judith Richards, Luis Guispert, Olav Westphalen, Tom Friedman, Richard Prince, Dana Schutz, Erwin Wurm
: :Admit it: You've sometimes wanted to laugh at contemporary art. During the past decade, humor has turned up with increasing frequency in galleries and museums, perhaps as an acknowledgment of the urgent need among artists and audiences alike to laugh at the absurdity of daily existence--and the art world itself. Situation Comedy presents more than 60 works--a selection of video and sound installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs--by younger as well as more established artists, including Tom Friedman, Rodney Graham, Christian Jankowski, Laura Nova, William Pope.L, Richard Prince, Kay Rosen, Erika Rothenberg, John Waters, and Erwin Wurm. Employing parody, satire, slapstick and practical jokes, they use the leveling power of ... |
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Paul Pfeiffer»rank: 1394608by: Dominic Molon, Robert Fitzpatrick, John Baldessari, Paul Pfeiffer
: :The basketball player dunks, and dunks, and dunks again. The boxer punches, and punches, and punches again. Using advanced technology to transform and isolate moments from movies and televised sporting events, Paul Pfeiffer's work examines contemporary notions of racial and sexual identity and how we respond to the human body when it is placed in extreme situations such as ecstasy and pain. Pfeiffer's work also explores issues of time and the increasingly blurry distinction between reality and representation in everyday life. Recent installation pieces transfer mediated, image-based knowledge into physical spaces, with references to movies like The Amityville Horror. This catalog, the first significant publication devoted to Pfeiffer's work, includes ... |
Mariko Mori»rank: 1304560by: Mariko Mori, Lisa Corrin, Marjorie King, Carol S. Eliel, Dominic Molon
: :Japanese multimedia artist Mariko Mori (b. 1967) combines popular culture, science fiction, and Far Eastern spirituality with an exploration of self-image in her internationally acclaimed work. Designed by Groovisions and art-directed by Simon Browning, this beautiful book presents a comprehensive overview of Mori's art and the inspiration behind it, including her highly successful interactive installations Oneness and Wave UFO. Covering all of the artist's work since she began her career in the 1990s, the book follows each project from inspiration and background visual references through a complete visual representation of the finished piece. Captions by Mori give readers a fuller understanding of her popular art. AUTHOR BIO: Mariko Mori was ... |
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Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation»rank: 1341247by: Dominic Molon, Barry Schwabsky
: :Gillian Wearing has emerged as one of the foremost British artists of her generation, creating video installations and photographic works that explore the strange humor and wrenching tragedy of everyday life. Wearing's work often uses the techniques of documentary films and television to frame the words and actions of people. Her video work Confess All on Video. Don't Worry, You Will Be Disguised. Interested? Call Gillian, which is included in this book, presents people confessing personal aspects of their lives on video in response to a classified London newspaper ad. Each person wears a mask, making his or her often disturbing story that much more bizarre. Also included are such ... |
Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler: House With Pool»rank: 1759698by: Dominic Molon, Maja Naef, Alexander Birchler, Teresa Hubbard
: :A house with a swimming pool and three protagonists: an older woman, a teenager, and a gardener. The women never meet; the gardener sees everything. The narrative seems to be about the relationship between a mother and daughter--and its rhythm corresponds to the playing of a piano, to a swimmer gliding through the pool, and to water splashing in the shower. However, there is more to House with Pool than the fictional story as told by the film; it is also the history of a modernist home in 1950s Texas, where the artists--Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler--lived and worked for a few months, taking their cues from their immediate environment. ... |