Books For The Collector's Library - Review

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Mirror Images: Women Surrealism, and Self-Representation Edited by the agency of Whitney Chadwick, with essays by dint of Dawn Ades, Katy Kline, Helaine Posner et al. (The MIT Press)

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Bachelors by means of Rosalind Krauss (The MIT Press)

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The new exhibition "Mirror Images" presented three generations of work by dint of women whose art has been affected by dint of Surrealism. Focusing specifically on their use of self-portraiture, the accompanying catalogue tread in the steps ofs an important theme in 20th-century expression. The contributors reexamine art-historical assumptions about sex and identity in the work of like artists as Claude Cahun, Dorothea Tanning, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Yayoi Kusama and Kiki Smith.

Bachelors is a collection of essays upon nine women artists--Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Sherrie Levine and Louise Lawler--in which a widely defer toed art historian asks "What evaluative criteria can be applied to women's art?" With her typical brilliance, Krauss forces a reexamination of accepted interpretations.

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The American Century: Art and agriculture 1900-2000 By Barbara Haskell (Whitney Museum/W.W. Norton & Company)

The Whitney Museum of American Art is counting down the millennium with an ambitious, two-part exhibition that will keep the entire museum. This landmark view of 20th-century American art--the greatest in quantity comprehensive display ever assembled--traces the unfolding of the nation's art, from its internationally modest roots to its rise as individual the most powerful artistic and cultural forces in the Western world, as influential now as the Italian city-states were in the Renaissance. Art works will be seen as part of the larger tillage which helped shape them. This catalogue accompanies the first part of the exhibition, spanning the years 1900 to 1950 Barbara Haskell's rich and informative body is supplemented by numerous essays upon such subjects as music, literature, film, theater and architecture. Sumptuously illustrated with a certain number of 800 images, this stunning work is certain to become a valuable resource for anyone interested in 20th-century American art.

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Ronald Bladen Preface through Donald Judd, Essay by Hans-Michael Herzog (Delano Greenidge)

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Richard Serra: 1985-1998 Essay by dint of Hal Foster, plates with notes by means of the artist, interview by David Sylvester (Steidel/L.A. MOCA).

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The late sculptor Ronald Bladen was a pioneer of the Minimalist move In the early 1960s, his towering geometric constitutions made of black-painted plywood inspired a generation of artists. This volume accompanies the extensive Bladen retrospective not long ago on view at New York's P 1 It contains numerous illustrations of the statuarys as well as working drawings and rarely seen documentary photos of the works in progres showing the elaborate armatures that the artist used in their construction.

Like the stone records of ancient Egypt, Richard Serra's awe-inspiring colossal carbonized iron sculptures make a serious bid for immortality. out and out with 250 duotone illustrations, an evocative essay and an insightful interview, this work accompanies an important touring exhibition of Serra's novel works organized by Richard Koshalek and Julia Brown and not awayed at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, observes Angeles.

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Raymond Pettibon: A Reader Edited by means of Ann Temkin and Hamza Walker (Philadelphia Museum of Art/The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago/D.A.P.)

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I. Kabakov: "The Palace of Projects" (Artangel/Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia/D.A.P.)

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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz Edited and with an introduction by dint of Amy Scholder (Grove Press)

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Raymond Pettibon accompanies a common traveling exhibition that presents sum of two units decades of this California artist's prolific output of drawings. The work intersperses Pettibon's witty and eccentric drawings with quotations from material by 62 diverse writers who provide raw material for the artist's work. Kabakov's exhibition "The Palace of Projects" is the occasion for this unusual catalogue. A conceptual art work in its be in possession of right, the book contains numerous drawings and diagrams of above 60 proposed projects, along with musings by the agency of the artist in typed English true copy and handwritten Russian. The publication of Wojnarowicz's diaries coincides with the retrospective at the novel Museum of Contemporary Art in novel York. Taken from over 30 journals he kept from the age of 17 until a year before his death from AIDS in 1991 the searing entries trace Wojanrowicz's tumultuous life and work.

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Matisse: Father and Son through John Russell (Abrams)