Materials on Display

Andy Warhol photobooth pictures by Robert Miller Gallery

Call Number: TR680.W37 1989

Publication Date: 1989

A rare book of the pioneering pop artist’s legendary photo strips

Artificial Nature by Deitch, Jeffrey.; Friedman, Dan

Call Number: N6490.A784 1990

ISBN: 9789608503748

Publication Date: 1990

“In an age marked by rapid developments of biotechnology and the progress made in genetic ‘improvement’, we have had to adapt to the new living conditions imposed by the verisimilitude of television pictures, by the green revolution of high-powered natural food as well as by pollution, industrial waste and the greenhouse effect. Nature is becoming less and less of a direct experience for mankind, while our indirect experience of it tends to focus more and more on its artificial aspect. The products of today’s consumer culture have dictated recent ideas about aesthetics, presenting new models to replace the old order of things. Nowadays, the representation of nature is created by teams of geneticists, computer programmers, building contractors and plastic surgeons. In the catalogue’s essay, Jeffrey Deitch underlies the capacity that contemporary art has in responding to this new and challenging reality by raising the question of whether the truth of nature lies below the deposit of human action and exploitation or whether its essence, which has been replaced by the phenomenology of new data, suggests that it has many faces or perhaps none.” - the publisher

Christopher Williams: the production line of happiness by Williams, Christopher

Call Number: TR647.W544 2014

ISBN: 0865592632

Publication Date: 2014

Representing Christopher Williams’s first publication with a major American museum, this illuminating and unusual volume is equal parts artist’s book and exhibition catalogue. Over the course of his thirty-year career, Williams (b. 1956) has crafted photographs that engage—often through uncanny mimicry—the conventions of photojournalism, picture archives, and commercial imagery, as well as their sociopolitical contexts and implications. The book includes a trio of essays by curators Mark Godfrey, Roxana Marcoci, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, which explore Williams’s engagement with his artistic peers and predecessors, with cinema (particularly the film-essay), and with the methods and modes of display and publicity in the art world, in addition to a transcript of a talk Williams delivered on the work of John Chamberlain. These more conventional contributions are “interrupted” by additional historical and contemporary textual and visual materials that were selected by the artist himself and are occasionally presented in facsimile form. An exhibition history, bibliography, and illustrated list of works round out the publication.

Remedios Varo by Varo, Remedios

Call Number: ND259.V3 P3 1969

Publication Date: 1969

"Spanish painter, active in Mexico. She began her studies at the Real Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1934 and even in her earliest work showed a tendency to work from the imagination.
Varo did not begin to paint full-time until 1953, and her most characteristic work dates from this period. She was greatly influenced by André Breton in her cultivation of dreamlike moods, but she rejected an unswerving reliance on the subconscious in favor of deliberate fantasies. Her painstaking technique suggests a direct debt to medieval art, for example to the Romanesque frescoes of her native Catalonia, especially in the treatment of architectural elements." -- from Grove Art Online

Tony Smith: Source, Tau, Throwback by Christopher M. Ketcham

Call Number: NB237.S569 A4 2019

ISBN: 9781948701181

Publication Date: 2019

Encompassing three works - Tau (1961-62), Source (1967), and Throwback (1976-77) - the exhibition touches on key moments in the artist's evolving sculptural practice. Shaped by his training and prior career as an architect, Smith's work is animated by a dynamic concept of space and a commitment to sculpture as an object to be catalyzed by the direct engagement of the human body.