LeWitt x 2 offers a unique perspective on the work of renowned Minimalist and Conceptualist Sol LeWitt, documenting the arc of his career alongside his personal collection of contemporary art. LeWitt is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. His geometric sculptures, groundbreaking wall drawings and striking works on paper have defined and pushed the limits of art-making for over 40 years. During that time, LeWitt and his wife Carol have further contributed to the art world by compiling and safeguarding a collection of contemporary art, just as they encourage the next generation of artists. LeWitt x 2 presents a selection of work from the LeWitt collection, featuring Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Dan Flavin, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Mario Merz, Shirin Neshat, Adrian Piper and Robert Ryman. This remarkable body of work demonstrates the dynamic dialogue between LeWitt and his esteemed contemporaries.

LeWitt x 2: Structure and Line and Selections from the LeWitt Collection

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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

Best known for his life-sized plaster sculptures of people engaged in everyday activities, George Segal (1924-2000) was one of the most prominent American artists of the twentieth century. This publication recounts the urban themes prevalent in Segal's sculptures over his 40-year career. George Segal: Street Scenesi s published concurrently with an exhibition at Wisconsin's Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. It includes essays by MMoCA curator Jane Simon and Director Emeritus of the Walker Art Center, Martin Friedman--a close friend and colleague of the artist.

George Segal: Street Scenes

Fleischman, Stephen

Simon, Jane

Friedman, Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

Return to Function surveys contemporary artists who make functional objects that verge on "the designed"--from vehicles to clothes to mobile studio units--which happily confirm that the once-firm line between fine art and the applied arts is indeed dissolving. These artists--Jules De Balincourt, Claire Fontaine, François Curlet, Fabrice Hyber, J. Morgan Puett, Michael Rakowitz, Joe Scanlan, Franck Scurti, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga and others--make objects that are simultaneously critical and practical. By choosing to create objects that meet utilitarian criteria, they show that artworks can be a part of the larger social, political and economic fabric. This volume features an in-depth discussion of seminal artists working in this vein, including Lucy Orta, Andrea Zittel and Jorge Pardo.

Return to Function

Barak, Ami

Schwendener, Martha

Drawn from the permanent collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, THE SINGING BIRD ROOM OF ROBERT LOSTUTTER surveys the work of one of the leading Chicago artists of recent decades. The exhibition, which includes more than thirty watercolors, drawings, prints, and oil paintings, will be on view in the State Street Gallery of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art from October 5, 2012, to January 6, 2013. Works in the exhibition date from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, and are drawn from the Bill McClain Collection of Chicago Imagism, an exceptional private collection that was made available to MMoCA approximately three years ago. Lostutter shared the Imagists' interests in a figurative art of vibrant color and graphic line based on personal fantasy. In the early 1970s, a sojourn in Mexico and his love of nature led Robert Lostutter to seize upon a theme that came to define his mature style. A superb draftsman and watercolorist, he began making portraits of male figures adorned with the plumage of tropical birds or the petals and leaves of orchids. Lostutter's mythic creatures are both disturbing and radiantly beautiful, fusions of animal and human, nature and culture. THE SINGING BIRD ROOM OF ROBERT LOSTUTTER is accompanied by a fully illustrated 60-page catalog, which is funded, in part, through a generous contribution from Mark and Judy Bednar.

The Singing Bird Room of Robert Lostutter

Richard H. Axsom

This comprehensive survey of Shapiro's cast bronze works organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art documents the artists' remarkable innovation over the past four decades. Installed in the museum's expansive galleries, the exhibit's sixteen magnificent large- and medium-scale geometric bronze sculptures dance, strut, strain, kick, and at times threaten-heartbreakingly or humorously, depending on your point of view-to stumble to their knees. These physically adventurous bronze works speak to each other organically. And viewers-long-time Shapiro fans as well as new generations of museum goers discovering the work of one of our most revered and accomplished artists for the very first time-are deeply moved spending time in their company.

Joel Shapiro: THE BRONZES Hardcover

SHAPIRO, Joel and Peter Boswell

This catalog celebrates the nearly 100 Chicago Imagist works of art which were gifted or promised to MMoCA by Mark and Judy Bednar of Chicago. This incredible gift complements the museum’s existing collection of Chicago Imagism through its inclusion of artworks produced early on in the careers of Roger Brown, Robert Lostutter, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Barbara Rossi, Karl Wirsum, and Ray Yoshida. “Chicago Imagist” has become shorthand for the typified Chicago style—figurative, boldly colored, precisely rendered works that embrace humor and the outrageous. As former students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Imagists passed by iconic paintings and the extraordinary collection of Surrealism on display at the Art Institute on their way to classes. While they were absorbing the images exhibited on the walls of the museum, they were also encouraged by their professors to visit the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Institute, storefront window displays, and flea markets for inspiration and visual fodder.

Uncommon Accumulation: The Mark and Judy Bednar Collection of Chicago Imagism

Mel Becker Solomon

MMoCA will feature its significant holdings of Mexican Modern artworks in an exhibition that will explore the history of the artistic renaissance of Mexico in the early 20th century and its connection to works being created by Mexican-American artiststoday. The museum's collection of Mexican Modern artworks is one of the finest and most extensive in the Midwest andincludes 223 works of art by over 60 artists-primarily prints, photographs, and drawings by luminaries such as Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Leopoldo Mendez, Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and Rufino Tamayo, as well as an important oil painting by Frida Kahlo.

Caja De Visiones / Box of Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art From Mexico in the Midwest

Exhibition catalogue for Natalies Frank:Unbound

Natalie Frank: Unbound

Alison Gingergras

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