The enigmatic images of the great Surrealist Ren Magritte (1898-1967) are so powerful that they seem to define a completely new reality, where everyday objects and familiar situations are transformed in unexpected ways. Magritte's visual ideas are astounding in their variety and originality, and creative people ranging from philosophers to advertising executives have ransacked his art for inspiration. His impact on fine art and artists has been even more dramatic. This collection of key works, which accompanies a major retrospective opening at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in May 2000, is particularly notable because the paintings have been selected to show Magritte's influence on the art of the latter half of the 20th century. An essay by art historian Siegfried Gohr explores some of the major themes in Magritte's work, while more than 60 colorplates tantalize the viewer. 
85 illustrations, 65 in full color, 9 3/4 x 12" 
SIEGFRIED GOHR is professor of art theory at the Hochschule fr Gestalthung in Karlsruhe, Germany, and former director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. 
GARY GARRELS is Elise S. Haas chief curator and curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtMay 5-Sept. 5, 2000

Magritte

Arts & Photography

GARRELS, Gary

Individual Artists

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

In the autumn of 2006, The Museum of Modern Art will present Brice Marden: A Retrospective, the artist's first major American retrospective. The exhibition, which will travel to San Francisco and Berlin, will constitute an unprecedented gathering of Marden's work, with more than 50 paintings and an equal number of drawings, balanced across the artist's career. The accompanying catalogue is the first book to take readers through the full course of Marden's work as it has developed over more than 40 years from the early 1960s to the present, showing his gradual, deliberate evolution, along with his constant exploration of light, color and surface at every turn. Marden's first 20 years of work, characterized by the luminous monochrome panels for which he won his first acclaim, will for the first time appear alongside the celebrated production of the past 20 years, which followed a shift in the mid-1980s to calligraphic gestures in shimmering grounds, and another shift in the past decade to heightened color. Two of Marden's newest paintings appear here for the first time. Gary Garrels interprets Marden's work and places it in historical context. Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro, of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard, examines issues of materials, processes and conservation. Richard Shiff, Brenda Richardson and Michael Duffy explore Marden's early use of a grid and his engagement with time and space in the studio, as well as his observation of the elemental qualities of nature, his representational links to nature, and the distinctive emotional effects of the abstract monochrome works for which he was initially recognized. Marden himself addresses his working methods in an interview, and a comprehensive chronology, exhibition history and bibliography close the book out.

Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective

Shiff, Richard

RICHARDSON, Brenda

Reference

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Central Park, Cai's Light Cycle fireworks display lit the New York sky with a circle of explosions on a September night in 2003. This 24-page accordion book documents it all from planning to performance, executed by the famous Grucci fireworks family. Separating the book's hardbound cloth covers reveals a continuous folded sheet with reproductions of Cai's gunpowder drawings (made by burning scant gunpowder on paper) on one side and photographs of the event and text on the other. In an interview, the artist compares his drawings to “love-making” and explains some technical aspects of his displays, such as a computer chip in each explosive shell.

Cai Guo-Qiang: Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park (ASIA SOCIETY/CR)

Eleey, Peter

Pasternak, Anne

Desai, Vishakha

History & Criticism

Asia Society/Creative Time

Book by Arneson, Robert, Garrels, Gary, Bishop, Janet C., Fineberg, Jonathan David

Robert Arneson: Self-Reflections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Fineberg, Jonathan David

Arneson, Robert

Bishop, Janet C.

San Francisco Museum

Though Jasper Johns is probably most famous for the now-iconic flag paintings he made during the 1950s, he continues to produce great paintings today. This latest body of work--first shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art--dates to the very late '90s. And this beautifully produced exhibition catalog offers readers a glimpse at and insight into the work called the Bridge series. There is a loneliness to these paintings, with their dark palette and single strings of color set against expansive gray spaces. The solitary strings allude to the cables of suspension bridges and hang in front of the pictures with a swooped, gravity-induced curve. The dark, mysterious quality of the canvasses is brightened somewhat by details like that of a harlequin's diamond pattern painted in muted colors. Childhood imagery appears here, too--a dragon figure from a long ago Halloween, for one. Though at first glance these moody, memory-imbued paintings seem very different from much of the painter's other work, Johns's trademark themes are not entirely absent. His predilection for playing up the sculptural elements of painting is evident in the pieces of wood framing he's attached to these and the illusion of painted wood framing around the edges of the works. While the Bridge series works represent something of a departure for Johns, the paintings maintain a strong connection to the motifs he's investigated throughout his career. This is a meditative and fascinating art book experience. [86 pages, 13 full-color plates, 15 black-and-white illustrations] --J.P. Cohen

Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper

PISSARRO, Joachim

Field, Richard S.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1935. Seventy-five years later, its permanent collection contains numerous masterpieces of world art. This anniversary retrospective includes more than 300 large-scale plates and 50 text entries on individual works.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward

Phillips, Sandra

Urbach, Henry

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection

San Francisco Museum ofr Modern Art

Authors: Gary Garrels Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap) Keywords: present, german, contemporary, photography Pages: 141 Published: 1992-05 Language: English ISBN-10: 0935640371 ISBN-13: 9780935640373 Binding: Paperback (1st)

Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 To the Present

Photography & Video

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Willem De Kooning: The Late Paintings, the 1980s [Oct 02, 1995] De Kooning, Willem; Garrels, Gary;

Willem De Kooning: The Late Paintings, the 1980s

DE KOONING, Willem

STORR, Robert

Walker Art Center

Book by De Kooning, Willem, Storr, Robert, Garrels, Gary

History

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