While visiting The Menil Collection, Vik Muniz, creator of what he calls "photographic delusions," happened upon the museum's exhibition planning room, which contains a small-scale model of galleries filled with tiny copies of artworks from the permanent collection--museum curators use these models in planning installations. Fascinated, Muniz took digital pictures of the maquettes and, for the exhibition Model Pictures, held at The Menil Collection in spring 2002, enlarged them to the scale of the original works of art that they represent. For the book Model Pictures, a conceptual extension of the exhibition, he shrinks his photographs of the maquettes to their miniature size, or 1:12 of the original artworks.

Vik Muniz: Model Pictures

Arts & Photography

Muniz, Vik

Murphy, Diana

Individual Artists

The Menil Foundation, Inc.

This new title presents, in its entirety, a new series of photographs by Vik Muniz, completed while he was artist-in-residence at the Frick Art &amp; Historical Center in Pittsburgh. Muniz used his inimitable photographic eye to capture Clayton--the historical home of 19th century American industrialist Henry Clay Frick--through the eyes of a child. Muniz uses a 19th century 8 x 10 inch view camera to record a fictional narrative, using a deliberately low point of view that immerses the viewer in the perspective of a child. The result is a series of ominous and intriguing images that approach history in an imaginative, non-linear fashion. The book "Clayton Days" also features an essay by renowned author and photography critic Andy Grundberg that places this new series within the context of Muniz's past production and within the tradition of contemporary photography, and an extended dialogue with Muniz conducted by Linda Benedict-Jones, executive director of the Silver Eye Center for Photography. Paperback, 96 pages, 11.25 x 9 inches, 74 b&amp;w illustrations

Clayton Days: Picture Stories

Grundberg, Andy

Benedict-Jones, Linda

McIntosh, DeCourcy E.

Photography & Video

Frick Art Museum

Vic Muniz’s images and his playful approach to making art captivate children and adults alike. Muniz works with everyday materials—such as peanut butter and jelly, chocolate syrup, and even garbage—to make images that often reference masterpieces or popular icons. Jelly, Garbage + Toys, drawn from interviews with children, is an interactive first-person narrative that presents Muniz’s personal story and his art, focusing on some of his many processes and mediums. The book emphasizes the importance of play in the creation of art while challenging children to think about how images are made and what they mean. The design—with graphic novel–inspired speech bubbles, liftable flaps, and a Turkish-map fold (all four sides open)—helps communicate Muniz’s exuberant message.

Jelly, Garbage + Toys: Making Pictures with Vik Muniz

Biographies & Memoirs

Sommers, Joan

Drake, Ascha

Freymann, Amanda

Arts & Literature

Abrams Books for Young Readers

117p paperback with green and white dustcover bearing reproduction of 'Video on barbed wire, 1996', book in excellent clean undamaged condition throughout, dustcover protected by cellophane wrapper, appears unused, first edition, French language, published as coproduction with Galerie Xipas, packed with artwork by Muniz

Vik Muniz (French Edition)

History & Criticism

GALGIANI, PHILLIP^

"When a cousin of mine told me his seven-year old could paint a Picasso, I told him probably, but he couldn't do the back," writes Brazilian conceptual artist Vik Muniz about his Verso project. The series consists of obsessively faithful three-dimensional trompe l'oeil reproductions--using period hardware in a 1:1 scale--of the backs of such iconic works as Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," van Gogh's "Starry Night" and Seurat's "La Grande Jatte," including every scratch, scribble, label, trace of tape and faded pencil notation found on the original. For six years, Muniz worked in partnership with the curatorial and conservation departments of New York's MOMA and Guggenheim museums, the Art Institute of Chicago and a team of craftsman, artists, forgers and technicians to realize this project. Verso also introduces texts by essayist Luc Sante and MOMA curator Eve Respini.

Vik Muniz: Verso

SANTE, Luc

Respini, Eva

Charta/Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

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