The term "process art" describes a moment of radical, aformalexperimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium ofdrawing, Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists whodefined the movement and suggests a transitional moment when many ofits practitioners anticipated the feminist and postminimalist art ofthe 1970s. Nancy Grossman's use of language, for example, suggests akind of material abstraction, and Nancy Holt's earth works and relateddrawings introduced content into a minimalist vocabulary. The bookalso explores the drawing as a residual object in works in which theprocess of making dictates the form of the drawing. Examples includeGordon Matta-Clark's stacked cuttings, Robert Morris' "blind time"drawings, and Sol Lewitt's folded construction drawings. Other works,such as those by Bruce Nauman and Robert Smithson, record a particularapproach to body-based and process-oriented sculpture. The book, which accompanies an exhibition, contains an essayby Cornelia H. Butler on the historical ambiguity surrounding processart and one by Pamela M. Lee on temporality in work of the late1960s. The artists included in the book are William Anastasi, RichardArtschwager, Mel Bochner, Agnes Denes, Nancy Grossman, RobertGrosvenor, Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt, Barry LeVa, SolLewitt, Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Gordon Matta-Clark, RobertMorris, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Saret,Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart, Richard Tuttle, andJack Whitten.Copublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles.EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLos Angeles, CaliforniaApril 11-August 22, 1999Contemporary Arts MuseumHouston, TexasMay-July 2000Henry Art GallerySeattle, WashingtonJuly-September 2000

Afterimage: Drawing Through Process

Arts & Photography

Butler, Cornelia H.

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

In the mid-1980s the sprouting of new movements that had driven modern art since the nineteenth century finally went dormant, sputtering out with a last few half-hearted lels ('pattern painting', 'neo-geo', 'commodity art'). But this was not the end of art history -- far from it. In the years since, art's creative development has remained more vibrant than ever, resulting in a staggering diversity of new forms. Defining Contemporary Art responds to this unique landscape with an innovative approach to art history. Assembled and written by eight of the most prominent curators working today, all of whom have both witnessed and shaped this period, Defining Contemporary Art tells the story of the two hundred pivotal artworks of the past twenty-five years. These artworks include not only the most talked out pieces but also the quietly influential works, those which may have been overlooked at the time of their making but which went on to change the paradigm of their era. Arranged year by year, these two hundred works provide a true chronological depiction of creativity in our era, forming a mosaic in which readers may find their own patterns..

Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks

Birnbaum, Daniel

Cotter, Suzanne

Phaidon Press

The first comprehensive study of the work of one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation.
This timely entry in the Contemporary Artists series focuses on Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class, race, and gender-based economies that structure urban society. His collages and installations, made of materials scavenged from the streets, have created a unique body of work that still stands as a strong response to the impromptu networks that emerge within a city. In this new title, his life and work are explored as never before.

Mark Bradford (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Smee, Sebastian

Hill, Anita

Humor & Entertainment

Elmgreen &amp; Dragset's constructed environments have been celebrated all over the world for their mischievous, cerebral, and accessible nature. This is the first comprehensive presentation of the duo's work, from their early performative pieces in the late 1990s to their most recent public projects
Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen &amp; Dragset's work reconfigure the familiar with characteristic and subversive wit. Their sculptures and installations, also known as 'Powerless Structures', have redefined what it means to experience art - the cover features their work Van Gogh's Ear, a sculpture in the form of a swimming pool, which is located on Fifth Avenue in New York at the entrance to the Rockefeller Center.
This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012.
Elmgreen &amp; Dragset is the latest addition to the acclaimed Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series.

Elmgreen & Dragset (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

HERBERT, Martin

Yablonsky, Linda

Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is among the most popular American artists working today. His evocations of commonplace subjects have earned him a reputation as a Pop artist, while his interest in language and typography has aligned him with Conceptual art. This book, published to accompany Ruscha's first museum retrospective of drawings, showcases his singular vision and his wide range of highly personal mediums and techniques-from pastels and gunpowder to blood, coffee, and tobacco stains. 
Ruscha's work includes paintings, photographs, prints, books, and films, but his unique works on paper are perhaps his richest vein. Through his interpretations of cultural icons and vernacular subjects such as the Hollywood sign, trademarks, and gas stations, as well as his renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations, Ruscha proposes a modern landscape based on keen observation and wry humor.

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips(r), Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

Rowell, Margit

Butler, Cornelia

Individual Artists

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF ART.

In this catalogue MOCA curator Connie Butler expands the concept of “drawing” and explores the reinvention of narrative through serial and notational approaches both on paper and outside the traditional parameters associated with drawing, including film, video, and installation. Essay by Cornelia H. Butler.

Power of Suggestion

Smart Art Press

Lewis Baltz is an artist whose work has always sythesized broader cultural issues. Breaking from his past serial formats, this striking exhibition catalog tackles the job of documenting the artists monumnetal color installations created from 1991 through 1995. Baltz moves from the phsical landscape into the virtual and veiled landscape of contemporary global culture. Featured are all three trilogies, Ronde de Nuit , Docile Bodies and The Politics of Bacteria Essay by curator Cornelia H. Butler.

The Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de Nuit

Baltz, Lewis

Photography & Video

Ram Publications

The term "process art" describes a moment of radical,                 aformalexperimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium ofdrawing,                 Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists whodefined the movement and                 suggests a transitional moment when many ofits practitioners anticipated the                 feminist and postminimalist art ofthe 1970s. Nancy Grossman's use of language, for                 example, suggests akind of material abstraction, and Nancy Holt's earth works and                 relateddrawings introduced content into a minimalist vocabulary. The bookalso                 explores the drawing as a residual object in works in which theprocess of making                 dictates the form of the drawing. Examples includeGordon Matta-Clark's stacked                 cuttings, Robert Morris' "blind time"drawings, and Sol Lewitt's folded construction                 drawings. Other works,such as those by Bruce Nauman and Robert Smithson, record a                 particularapproach to body-based and process-oriented sculpture. The book, which                 accompanies an exhibition, contains an essayby Cornelia H. Butler on the historical                 ambiguity surrounding processart and one by Pamela M. Lee on temporality in work of                 the late1960s. The artists included in the book are William Anastasi,                 RichardArtschwager, Mel Bochner, Agnes Denes, Nancy Grossman, RobertGrosvenor,                 Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt, Barry LeVa, SolLewitt, Lee Lozano, Sylvia                 Plimack Mangold, Gordon Matta-Clark, RobertMorris, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer,                 Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Saret,Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart,                 Richard Tuttle, andJack Whitten.Copublished with The Museum of Contemporary Art. Los                 Angeles.EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLos Angeles,                 CaliforniaApril 11-August 22, 1999Contemporary Arts MuseumHouston, TexasMay-July                 2000Henry Art GallerySeattle, WashingtonJuly-September 2000

Museum of Contemporary Art

After Image: Drawing Through Process

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Afterimage: Drawing Through Process

Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks

Mark Bradford (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Elmgreen & Dragset (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips(r), Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

Power of Suggestion

The Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de Nuit

Afterimage: Drawing Through Process

After Image: Drawing Through Process