Filled with hundreds of Matthew Barney's fantastical images, this comprehensive volume, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, surveys the popular artist's CREMASTER cycle—an epic five-part film project that uses the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point. 
Three essays by Barney experts articulate the series' diverse themes and explore the artist's innovative aesthetic vocabulary; interviews with key collaborators— composer, costume designer, make-up artist, technicians, and actors—reveal his working process. In addition to stills from the five films—including the final episode, CREMASTER 3, which will premiere at the exhibition—the book features related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and storyboards. For anyone intrigued by this Wagner of contemporary art, this is an atlas to his enticingly hypnotic worlds.

Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle

Arts & Photography

Neville Wakefield

Nancy Spector

Individual Artists

Guggenheim Museum Publications

Now in Paperback! This lavishly illustrated book explores a century of modern art through the exceptional holdings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Engaging, accessible essays introduce a range of art-historical issues, from the depiction of women in Impressionist works to the Guggenheim's influential role in presenting new artistic currents, such as Minimalist, Conceptual and site-specific art. Also recounted are the fascinating stories of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who championed abstract art in the United States, and his flamboyant niece Peggy Guggenheim, an equally important art patron, as well as the saga of the design process and building of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces.

Art Of This Century

WALDMAN, Diane

SPECTOR, Nancy

Feeser, Andrea

Brown, Julia

Blessing, Jennifer

Govan, Michael

Krens, Thomas

History & Criticism

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.

Robert Morris: The Mind/Body Problem

Thomas Krens, Rosalind Krauss

An Essay, interview with Raymond Nasher and hundreds of black and white and color photographs of sculpture by such luminaries as George Segal, Aristide Mailliol, August Rodin and Richard Long. Coated Stock pages.

A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection

Carmen Gimenez and Steven a Nash, Curato

Sculpture

Jim Dine (b. 1935) is one of America's best-known image-makers. This book, published to accompany the first major exhibition of Dine's work from the 1960s, reproduces a broad selection of his early mixed-media works, paintings, and sculptures. Many of the works featured in this volume contain elements of the now-familiar themes of Dine's career: tools, robes, hearts, palettes, and domestic interiors. Bringing together fascinating performance photographs with vivid full-color reproductions, the book is the first to explore the complex relationship between Dine's mixed-media works and his environments and theater pieces.

Jim Dine : Walking Memory, 1959-1969

[Dine, Jim] Celant, Germano (editor)

Bell, Clare (editor)

Frankel, Stephen Rob

Sugimoto Portraits

SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi, Tracey Bashkoff, Nancy Spector, Carol Armstrong, Norman Bryson and Thomas Kellein

"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition The Global Guggenheim: Selections from the Extended Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 9-April 22, 2001"--T.p. verso.

Guggenheim Museum Collection A to Z

Released at the inaugural exhibition at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, "Masterpieces and Master Collectors" presents a selection of masterpieces that highlights the distinct but highly complementary strengths of these two world-renowned collections, featuring key examples of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and early Modernism, including paintings by Cézanne, Chagall, Kandinsky, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Renoir, and van Gogh. Content: The exhibition traces Modernism's roots in late nineteenth-century France, beginning with Claude Monet's Lady in the Garden (1867), one of the early monuments of Impressionistic plein-air painting. A scene of urban leisure by Camille Pissarro and portraits by Pierre Auguste Renoir demonstrate the range of subjects depicted by this innovative French avant-garde. Post-Impressionism and early Modernism are seen through a selection of paintings that are striking for their daring flatness and use of color, including Paul Gauguin's paintings of Tahiti's exotic "primitives," and Paul Cézanne's work in landscape, portraiture, and still life. Modernism's continuation in the hands of the early twentieth-century School of Paris can be seen in the work of the great colorists Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard; in fine examples of Pablo Picasso's painting prior to and during the development of Cubism; as well as in Cubist works by Picasso's contemporaries Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, and Frantisek Kupka. The exhibition also features paintings by Marc Chagall, André Derain, Franz Marc, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Rousseau, Louis Valtat, Kees Van Dongen, and Vincent van Gogh. The exhibition ends with the abstraction of Vasily Kandinsky, including his great Paris-period painting, Dominant Curve (1936).

Masterpieces and Master Collectors (Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings from the Hermitage and Guggenheim Museums)

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

Bequeathed to the Guggenheim Museum by Justin K. Thannhauser, this sparkling collection features important works from the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modernist periods, including 32 paintings and works on paper by Picasso. In addition to the impeccable reproductions of every work in the collection, this book includes a fascinating new essay on Thannhauser, a leading art dealer in pre-World War II Europe whose family's gallery was the first to represent Picasso as well as the Blue Rider Group. This revised edition includes two essays on the period as well as a dozen insightful texts on the highlights of the collection, which include paintings by Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Renoir, van Gogh and, of course, Picasso.

Thannhauser: The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum

Dumas, Ann

FitzGerald, Michael

Easton, Elizabeth

Flam, Jack

Shiff, Richard

Boime, Albert

Collins, Anne

TUCKER, PAUL

PISSARRO, Joachim

Thomson, Belinda

LICHT, Fred

Rosenblum, Robert

Bailey, Colin

BROMBERT, Beth Archer

Reff, Theodore)

Weaver, Mary

From Picasso to Pollock highlights the history of the aesthetic vanguard from early Modernism through Abstract Expressionism. With distinctive focus yet remarkable comprehensiveness, From Picasso to Pollock unites the major artists and developments of the first half of the twentieth century through significant examples of non-objective, Cubist, Surrealist, Expressionist and Abstract Expressionist painting and sculpture. A deep and broad assembly of masterpieces has been chosen from the Guggenheim's formative collection, and through it the viewer may perceive the era of Modern art emerging in all its diversity and complexity. Included here are reproductions of and short texts on seminal works by Brancusi, Braque, Chagall, de Kooning, Delaunay, Ernst, Fontana, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Malevich, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Mondrian, Popova and Schiele. Narrative biographies on a number of these artists are included, as well as a short, illustrated history of the collection by Lisa Dennison. From Picasso to Pollock is the second in a trilogy from the Guggenheim which highlights the greatest strengths of the museum's collection. The first title, Moving Pictures, showcased contemporary photography and video, and the third, Primary Forms, considered Minimalism, Conceptualism and their more contemporary progeny.

From Picasso To Pollock: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Museum

Schaffner, Ingrid

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