"The Independent Group, or the IG, as it was called, is best known for having launched Pop Art. But the young artists, architects, and critics who met informally at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early 1950s were actually embarked on a far more subversive and constructive mission than the founding of an art movement. ... [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Essays "In Between / Dazwischen," by Annemarie Hürlimann; "The Magic of Reality," by Hanna Humeltenberg; "Bad," by Klaus Kertess; "From Full Fathom Five," by Burke & Hare; "Jeff Koons - A case study," by Jean-Christophe Ammann; "Koons ad Nauseam," by Glenn O'Brien; "I'll buy that," by Diedrich Diederichsen; "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should not be silent," by Patrick Frey; "Regarding: Martin Kippenberger," by Martin Prinzhorn / Bice Curiger; "The speaking image Pictorial Perception and Pictorial Constitution in Rémy Zaugg's Work," by Felix Phillipp Ingold; "Gerhard Richter: Interview," by Jan-Thorn Prikker; "Cumulus Aus Europa," by Iwona Blazwick; "Cumulus Aus Amerika," by Robert Gober; "Balkon: Parkett's fifth anniversery, An exhibition at the Helmhaus Zurich," by unattributed artists. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show organized by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany. Traveled to Württembergischer Kunstverein, July 13 - August 31, 1986; Musée d'Art Moderne de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, September 16 - November 16, 1986; MAM/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, December 12, 1986 - February 8, 1987; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, March 15 - May 24, 1987; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, July 1 - September 13, 1987; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 3, 1987 - January 31, 1988. ... [details]
A guide which introduces the copy machine as a way to create art. Includes examples of Xerox art by Les Levine, Paulo Bruscky, Daniel Barber, Dina Dar, Jack Kaminsky, Geoffrey Gove, and many others. [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Essays "Bill Woodrow: The Ship Of Fools," by Lynne Cooke; "I Am Going, Erik Bulatov's Vision Of Space," by Claudia Jolles; "Jürgen Partenheimer - Wanderer Between The Worlds," by Amine Haase; "Andy & Andy The Warhol Twins: A Theme and Variations," by Stuart Morgan; "Andy," by Glenn O'Brien; "The Magic Of The Why Not," by Remo Guidieri; "A Portrait Of Andy," by Robert Becker; "Reinhard Mucha - Connections," by Patrick Frey; "Les Infos Du Paradis: The Exhibition 'Sculpture Projects Münster 1987' To Be Opened June," by Jacqueline Burckhardt; "Cumulus Von Europa," by Mark Francis; "Cumulus From America," by Christopher Knight; "Balkon: 'Chain' 1985/86," by Otto Künzli. ... [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Essays "Imi Knoebel: The Surveyal Of Sensation," by Max Wechsler; "Friendship Is Unstable Equilibrium," by Patrick Frey; "Fischli/Weiss In Appearance," by Germano Celant; "The Path Of Most Resistance," by Karen Marta; "Peter Fischli And David Weiss," by Bernhard Johannes Blume; "The Critic As Four-Eyed Peg Leg," by Jeanne Silverthorne; "(Dis)ordered Artifact In The Art Of Fischli/Weiss," by Sidra Stich; "Matt Mullican," by Paul Groot; "Real Abstract Theater: The Wooster Group," by Kathy Halbreich; "Les Infos Du Paradis: The Australian Biennale 1988," by Dan Cameron; "Varia," by unattributed artists; "Cumulus From America," by Ronald Jones; "Cumulus Aus Europa," by Reiner Speck; "Balkon: Down The Airshaft," by Richard Flood. ... [details]
Issue edited by Bice Curiger. Essays "The Case Of Robert Gober," by Lisa Liebmann; "An Olympic High-Flyer," by John Russel; "Alex Katz's 'Kool' Portraits," by Brooks Adams; "The Simple Truth Of Everyday Painting," by David Rimanelli; "A Discussion," by Alex Katz / Francesco Clemente; "Four Seasons On Japanese Paper," by Michael Krüger; "Go Fetch The New Yorker," by Richard Flood; "Ada, Katz' Picture Woman," by Patrick Frey; "Night II 1987," by Carl Stigliano; "A Brushstroke Is The Most Artificial Thing In The World," by Bice Cruiger; "Cow, Cow, Cow," by Glenn O'Brien; "Homage To Giulio Roman," by Jacqueline Burckhardt; "Les Infos Du Paradis: Survival Research, Laboratories," by Mike Kelley; "Cumulus From America," by David Deitcher; "Cumulus Aus Europa," by Friedmann Malsch; "Balkon," by Rene Ricard. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held on the 35th anniversary of the Angela Flowers Gallery. Introduction by Robert Heller. Artists include Glenys Barton, Glen Baxter, George Blacklock, Boyd and Evans, Edward Burtynsky, Stephen Chambers, Bernard Cohen, Ken Currie, Amanda Faulkner, John Gibbons, Alan Gouk, Friedemann Hahn, David Hepher, Nicola Hicks, Derek Hirst, Carole Hodgson, Peter Howson, Patrick Hughes, Neil Jeffries, Lucy Jones, John Keane, Michael Kidner, John Kirby, Henry Kondracki, Tim Lewis, John Loker, John McLean, Jiro Osuga, Eduardo Paolozzi, Freya Payne, Tom Phillips, Steven Pyke, Carol Robertson, Tai-Shan Schierenberg, Jack Smith, Richard Smith, Trevor Sutton, Renny Tait, Brian Wall and Gary Wragg. [details]
March 1989 issue of Art in America. Edited by Elizabeth C. Baker, with written contributions by Marit Werenskiold, Christopher Finch, Donald B. Kuspit, Robert Storr, Ann Temkin, Brian Wallis, Christopher Lewis, Jill Johnston, Ivan Karp, Nancy Princenthal, Holland Cotter, Ken Johnson, John Zinsser, Amy Fine Collins, Bradley Collins, Jr. ... [details]
Critical history of the art scene in San Francisco between 1945 and 1995 by Thomas Albright. Artists include Thomas Albright, George Abend, Arlo Acton, Ann Adair, Lee Adair, Mark Adams, Tom Akawie, James Alberson, Maxine Labro, Robert Alexander, William Allan, Boyd Allen, Gary Allen, Jesse Allen, John Almond, Alex Anderson, David Anderson, Jeremy Anderson, Steven Andresen, Ruth Armer, Victor Arnautoff, Robert Arneson, Ruth Asawa, Olive Ayhens, Heléne Aylon, Mowry Baden, Jennifer Badger, Martin Baer, Clayton Bailey, Jerrodl Ballaie, Joel Barletta, Carroll Barnes, Matthew Barnes, Raymond Barnhart, John Battenberg, John Baxter, Bruce Beasley, Paul Beattie, Mona Beaumont, Robert Bechtle, Scott Bell, Cleveland Bellow, Jordan Belson, Fletcher Benton, Elio Benvenuto, Richard Berger, Henrietta Berk, Wallace Berman, Roger Berry, David Best, Bernice Lee Bing, Elmer Bischoff, Sue Bitney, Ed Blackburn, Ronald Bladen, Dianne Blell, J. ... [details]