Christian Boltanski came to prominence in the 1980s with major exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in 1984 and the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1990. This text explores his art, arguing that it hovers between the trauma of the extermination camp depot and the redemption of a memorial shrine.

Christian Boltanski (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Donald Kuspit

Christian Boltanski

Tamar Garb

Didier Semin

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

This survey offers a look back into some thirty years of Katz's work, tracing the elements of what could be called 'black' or 'night' paintings, and focusing on paintings of recent date that at the very least have nighttime as their subject. In what ways are these paintings truly about night or blackness? How do they relate to other works, even portraits, which seem to project the quality of nighttime in their evocation of silence or a sense of distance, but which overtly picture neither blackness nor night? These and other critical questions about the nature of Katz's work are addressed in Donald Kuspit's insightful text. They are further illuminated in a frank and revealing interview with the artist by the author. Includes sixty-three illustrations, all in full color.

Alex Katz: Night Paintings

Harry N. Abrams

Bill Viola, J. Hoberman, Donald Kuspit, Barbara London

Bill Viola

J. Hoberman

Barbara, London

Museum of Modern Art

Shows examples of the California sulptor's works in clay and bronze, and discusses his unique, archaic style

Stephen De Staebler: The Figure

Chronicle Books LLC.

Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy before the Object

Photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch Preface by Weston Naef Essay by Donald Kuspit Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, who is one of the founders of modern European photography. Amid the climate of intellectual, artistic, and political ferment in Germany between the wars, the idea of "beauty" was being redefined.

Albert Renger-Patzsch: Joy Before the Object

Albert Renger-Patzsch

Individual Artists

Aperture

The catalogue of an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, May 7 to July 10, 1988, and five other museums subsequently. Profusely illustrated.

Lucas Samaras--objects and subjects, 1969-1986

Thomas McEvilley

Roberta Smith

Abbeville Press

This collection contains Donald Kuspit's writing at its illuminating best as it reveals the psychological and spiritual motivation that conceivably compelled the artists represented to create some of their most interesting work. His subjects range from the artist's relentless manoeuvring for status to the calculated use of perversion and empowering sexuality to engage the art-going public. His criticism is occasionally devastating but always eloquently convincing. Donald Kuspit's opinions will be disconcerting for many who accept what is considered by art journalists and curators to be significant and worthy of the public's attention. He also examines the art market and its compromising effect upon our system of cultural values. The book is appropriately illustrated with paintings by Marcus Reichert, whose own work adheres to a radical ethos. With essays on: Karel Appel, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Motherwell, August Sander, Lucian Freud, Lucas Samaras, Robert Graham, George Segal, Helmut Newton, Rebecca Horn, Elizabeth Peyton, Richard Serra, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Anne-Louis Girodet, Nicholas Poussin, Jasper Johns, Neo Rauch, Sean Scully, Stephen Newton, and many other subjects ranging from sensationalism in art to the spiritual in art. Donald Kuspit is one of America's most esteemed art critics. He is Distinguished Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983), given by the College Art Association, Professor Kuspit is a Contributing Editor at Artforum, Sculpture, and Tema Celeste magazines, and the editor of Art Criticism. He has also curated many exhibitions.

Psychodrama: Modern Art As Group Therapy

Trans-Atlantic Publications

Vera Klement: Poem Paintings

Fassbender

Debuting in 1987 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this exceptional exhibition with more than 70 works from the Helga series included finished paintings in tempera and dry brush as well as drawings and works in watercolor. From 1971 until 1985, Wyeth undertook a long, intensive study of one model, Helga Testorf. Testorf was one of the artist s neighbors in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Wyeth s private project for some 14 years. He created approximately 240 works the volume of work is characteristic in many ways of his approach toward a subject of special interest repeated, investigatory and diverse. The way it was created was perhaps less typical. The series was done in nearly complete privacy, without revealing to anyone the existence of the series, the identity of the model or the extent of the project. Helga Testorf provided a means for Wyeth to explore the complexity of the human figure. She was presented in almost every human aspect clothed, nude, indoors, outdoors, in recognizable settings and against neutral backgrounds. With the Helga series, Wyeth tested the limits of his imagination using a single model. Testorf, who had never been an artist s model before, was equal to his challenge, enduring and even extending long sessions posing for the artist. In 1985, Andrew Wyeth began admitting others into the world he had created through the Helga series. Although the following year saw great media interest, the Helga series has been in the public eye just a few times.

Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures

International Arts & Artists

Vera Klement: Paintings, 1991-2004.

Vera Klement

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art

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