Here are a few of the books on individual artists that you will find in our library. Look for subject headings such as, Rauschenberg, Robert, -- 1925-2008 -- Exhibitions and Duchamp, Marcel, -- 1887-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Basquiat by Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)Call Number: Oversize ND237.B2763 A4 2005
ISBN: 185894287X
Publication Date: 2005
"Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years "Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is both shrewdly observed and biting. Characterized by their intensely personal nature and the raw, almost aggressive handling of paint, these works have an enduring power to move and to confound."
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The Roaring Silence : John Cage, a life by David RevillCall Number: ML410.C24 R5 1992
ISBN: 1559702206
Publication Date: 1992-09-30
John Cage has been described as the most influential composer of the last half of the twentieth century. His work and ideas - about silence, indeterminacy, nonintention, art's role in bringing the everyday object to our attention, the singularity of performance - have had influence not only in the world of music but also in dance, painting, printmaking, video art, and poetry. Among his friends and collaborators have been longtime associate Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Marcel Duchamp, Morton Feldman, Pierre Boulez, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The biography includes comprehensive chronologies of his musical and visual works.
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Judy Chicago : an American vision by Edward Lucie-Smith; Judy ChicagoCall Number: Oversize N6537.C48 L83 2000
ISBN: 0823025853
Publication Date: 2000
One of the most controversial artists of our time, Judy Chicago is most famous for her groundbreaking installationsThe Dinner Party,Birth Project, and Holocaust Project. While these works have been analyzed extensively from artistic and historical perspectives, this book's in-depth discussion also embraces many of the artist's lesser-known pieces. Using a great variety of techniques, from drawing, painting, and printmaking to needlework and sculpture, her search for a personal means of expression is examined through lavish illustrations and edifying text.
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Marcel Duchamp in Perspective by Joseph MasheckCall Number: N6853.D8 M37 2002
ISBN: 0306810573
Publication Date: 2002-04-18
These essays and pieces on Marcel Duchamp include his obituary from "Artforum"; Octavio Paz on the ready-mades; a Duchamp post-mortem by Hans Richter; and Donald Judd's investigation of Rose Slavy. The guide is illustrated with photographs of Duchamp's seminal pieces.
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Ellen Gallagher - AxME by Juliet Bingham; Tate Modern (Gallery) Staff (Contribution by)Call Number: Oversize N6537.G347 A4 2013
ISBN: 184976123X
Publication Date: 2013-10-01
Born in 1965 in Providence, Rhode Island, Ellen Gallagher is one of the most acclaimed contemporary painters to have emerged from North America. Her paintings, collages, drawings, sculpture, animation and film installations, which shift between abstraction and figuration, create dynamic encounters between the historic and the present through commentary about race, racism, and cultural identity.
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Jasper Johns : an allegory of painting, 1955-1965 by Jeffrey Weiss; John Elderfield (As told to); Carol Mancusi-Ungaro (As told to); Robert Morris (As told to); Kathryn A. Tuma (As told to)Call Number: Oversize ND237.J66 A4 2007
ISBN: 0300121415
Publication Date: 2007-02-28
Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is one of the most significant figures in the history of postwar art. His work from 1955 to 1965 was pivotal, exercising an enormous impact on the subsequent development of pop, minimalism, and conceptual art in the United States and Europe. This is the first publication to approach Johns' work of this ten-year period through a thematic framework. In this book, leading scholars, a conservator, and a contemporary artist consider Johns activity in this critical decade and discuss many of his iconic paintings, such as Target with Four Faces (1955), Diver (1962), Periscope ( Hart Crane ) (1963), and Arrive-Depart (1963).
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Ellsworth Kelly, red, green, blue : paintings and studies, 1958-1965 by Ellsworth Kelly; Toby Kamps (Editor); Julie Dunn (Editor); Hugh M. Davies (Introduction by); Roberta Bernstein (Contribution by)Call Number: Oversize ND237.K444 A4 2002b
ISBN: 0934418624
Publication Date: 2003
Red Blue Green, a monumental rectangular oil work, considered a crucial fulcrum point in the artist's career, represents Kelly's concerns about the tension between the figure and the ground, offering two precisely shaped and balanced red and blue forms set against a strongly contrasting green ground. These works, made from the late 50s to the mid-60s, established the artist's singular style and his reputation as one of the most innovative abstract painters of the latter half of the 20th century, one who boldly broke with the strictures of the abstract expressionist movement, which dominated painting in the United States in the 50s.
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Sol Lewitt by Sol Lewitt (Artist); Lucy Lippard (Text by); Rosalind Krauss (Text by); Beatrice Gross (Editor)Call Number: Oversize N6537.L46 S65 2012
ISBN: 3037643064
Publication Date: 2013
The first comprehensive LeWitt monograph published since the artist's death, and the first overview since 2000. Besides gathering visual documentation of LeWitt's wall drawings and his sculptures-or "structures" as he preferred-the publication also includes his complete writings; spreads from his artist's books; plus interviews and essays by virtually every artist and author closely associated with LeWitt, among them Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, Mel Bochner, Dan Graham and Robert Smithson.
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Roy Lichtenstein : a retrospective by James Rondeau; Sheena WagstaffCall Number: Oversize N6537.L5 A4 2012
ISBN: 0300179715
Publication Date: 2012
The most iconic works of Roy Lichtenstein are widely known, reproduced, copied, and even parodied. However, the true diversity and complexity of his oeuvre is little understood, and the full scope of his career is largely absent from the existing literature. Presenting over 130 paintings and sculptures, as well as over thirty seldom- or never-before-seen drawings and collages, this book examines all periods in Lichtenstein's career, going well beyond his brushstrokes and the classic Pop romance and war cartoon paintings that made him famous.
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A Rose Has No Teeth : Bruce Nauman in the 1960s by Constance Lewallen; Anne M. Wagner (Contribution by)Call Number: N6537.N38 A4 2007
ISBN: 0520250850
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
One of the most innovative, provocative, and influential of America's contemporary artists, Bruce Nauman spent his formative years in Northern California--first as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, then living in and around San Francisco. This splendidly illustrated book explores Nauman's relationship to the place where he created his earliest and most strikingly original works during the mid to late 1960s. Curator Constance M. Lewallen describes how the late 1960s were not only a time of political and social change in the San Francisco Bay Area; this was also a watershed period in art internationally, when Minimalism gave way to Post-minimalism and Conceptual Art, expanding into performance, film and video, installation, text works, and the photographic documents.
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Nam June Paik: video time, video space by Toni Stooss (Editor); Thomas Kellein (Editor)Call Number: Oversize N7369.P35 A4 1993
ISBN: 0810937298
Publication Date: 1993
A survey of the Korean-American artist's vital, visionary and varied career. From his earliest work as a composer/performance artist in the '60s neo-Dada Fluxus movement in Europe and the Happening scene in New York, to his multiscreen television installations, whimsical robots, singular television sculptures and global satellite productions, Paik has always been at the forefront in employing technology to serve creative expression
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Paolozzi by Fiona PearsonCall Number: Oversize NB497.P3 P43 1999
ISBN: 0903598914
Publication Date: 2006-07-26
Eduardo Paolozzi is a major figure in postwar British art: a father of pop art, a creator of key icons of the nuclear age, a brilliant manipulator of the images produced by the media, an iconoclast and traditionalist, an outsider and academician.
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Adrian Piper by John P. BowlesCall Number: N6537.P5 B69 2011
ISBN: 0822348969
Publication Date: 2011
"In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth. Her Mythic Being performances critically engaged with popular representations of race, gender, sexuality, and class..."
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Rauschenberg, art and life by Mary Lynn KotzCall Number: Oversize: N6537.R27 K67 2004
ISBN: 0810955881
Publication Date: 2004-11-16
A revised edition of a retrospective on the Venice Biennale grand prize-winning artist incorporates the last ten years of his career including his retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim in 1997, in a lavishly illustrated portrait that traces his early years, the creation of his famous combines and his work with new technologies.
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Ed Ruscha by Richard D. MarshallCall Number: Oversize N6537.R87 M37 2003
ISBN: 0714839086
Publication Date: 2003
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) initially gained attention in the early 1960s with paintings, drawings, and photographic books that focused on his fascination with the unique culture, vernacular, and sensibility of his adopted home of Los Angeles. This book is the first monograph on Ruscha's work; it looks with discernment and insightful detail at the prolific and many-faceted career of an artist whose work has been variously described as pop, conceptual, or surrealist; a painter as well as a print-, book-, and filmmaker.
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Richard Serra: sculpture : forty years by Kynaston McShine; Richard Serra; Lynne Cooke; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Staff (Contribution by)Call Number: Oversize NB237.S46 A4 2007
ISBN: 0870707124
Publication Date: 2007-06-01
"This book offers a detailed presentation of Richard Serra's entire career, from his early experiments with materials like rubber, neon, and lead to the environmentally scaled steel works of recent years, including three monumental new sculptures created for the exhibition that this book accompanies."
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Robert Smithson by Eugenie Tsai; Whitney Museum of American Art Staff (Contribution by); Robert Smithson; Cornelia H. Butler; Thomas E. Crow (Contribution by); Alexander Alberro; Moira Roth; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) Staff (Contribution by); Dallas MuCall Number: Oversize N6537.S6184 A4 2004
ISBN: 0520244087
Publication Date: 2004-09-27
This catalogue accompanying a blockbuster retrospective traveling exhibition opening at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in Sept. 2004 is THE major study of Robert Smithson (1938-1973), who is most renowned as an early Earthworks artist and creator of Spiral Jetty, a fifteen-hundred-foot rock coil dramatically situated in the Great Salt Lake.
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Frank Stella: Connections by Frank Stella (Artist); Robert Hobbs (Text by); Ben Tufnell (Editor); Tom Hunt (Text by)Call Number: Oversize N6537.S72 A4 2011
ISBN: 3775732713
Publication Date: 2012
The art of Frank Stella (born 1936) transcends the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture. Over the course of a five-decade career the artist has consistently reinvented himself, to such an extent that today we are faced with seven or eight Stellas, ranging from austere minimalist to baroque maximalist.
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Cy Twombly: a monograph by Richard LeemanCall Number: Oversize N6537.T96 L44 2005
ISBN: 2080304836
Publication Date: 2005-06-28
The pictorial creations by American artist Cy Twombly have represented, for more than 50 years, a sort of enigma that reinforces the mythic status of the artist. This book, takes into consideration Twombly's immense and complex body of work from the 1950s up through his current works, offers a thematic and chronological interpretation of his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and collages.