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Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

Arts & Photography

Peter H. Wood

Karen C. C. Dalton

History & Criticism

Menil Foundation

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. 2: From the Early Christian Era to the Age of Discovery, Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World

Jean Devisse

Michel Mollat

Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950-1961

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Anfam, David

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)

Kline, Franz

32 pages with 20 illustrations 8 in color. Illustrated wraps. Square format. Acknowledgments and Introduction by Paul Winkler, Director of the Menil Collection. List of Works.

Mark Rothko: The Chapel Commission

ROTHKO, Mark

Mancusi-Ungaro, Carol

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Pop Art: Us/Uk Connections, 1956-1966

Victor Brauner: Surrealist Hieroglyphs

BRAUNER, Victor

<p>Anna Gaskell is prominent among a generation of artists who emerged in the late 1990s and have redefined the landscape of contemporary art, building upon cinematic strategies pioneered a decade earlier by artists such as Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons. Gaskell and others of her generation have invented an entirely new discourse, one in which narrative is disrupted, lacking closure and connectivity. Gaskell goes further yet, creating bodies of work that appear to tell stories but confound one's ability to draw clear connections between the different images within a given series. In Half Life, a new project commissioned by The Menil Collection, Gaskell draws inspiration from stories like Rebecca, The Old Nurse, and The Turn of the Screw, to create an installation of video and photography that plumbs the dark recesses of the human psyche, embodying a sense of fear, isolation, and uncertainty. Accompanied by the first published biography and bibliography on the artist, as well as an interview and essay by Matthew Drutt, curator of the project, with contributions by Niall Mackenzie and Francis McKee.</p>

Anna Gaskell: Half Life

MacKenzie, Niall

McKee, Dr. Francis

Sarofim, Louisa Stude

Individual Artists

One of the leading proponents of the Pop Art movement, Jasper Johns culled his source material from popular culture with a preoccupation for the enigmatic character of everyday objects, language and numeric systems. This modest volume reviews the artist's broad career via his works on paper and plastic, surveying 30 objects spanning the years 1955-2001, charting his interests, techniques and aesthetic evolution.

Jasper Johns: Drawings

ROSENTHAL, Mark

Johns, Jasper

At a glance, Luisa Lambri's photographs of architectural interiors might appear to be yet another example of the austere, depopulated spaces found in so much of today's photo-based work. They are, however, eminently different in both conception and execution, at once deeply personal and ethereal rather than wholly impartial and concrete, suffused with a delicacy and intimacy that is diametrically opposed to the stark realism found in the works of, say, Thomas Ruff or Candida H fer. Since Lambri initiated what has become a sustained engagement with architecture and photography in 1997, she has endeavored to strike a subtle balance between objectivity and subjectivity, creating interpretations of spaces rather than documents of them, eliciting something minimal, abstract, and nonspecific that is imprinted by memory and desire in the process. For her project at The Menil Collection, Lambri has been commissioned to photograph Menil House, the home designed by Philip Johnson for John and Dominique de Menil in 1951, as well as The Menil Collection designed by Renzo Piano in 1987. These will be presented along with a selection of her previously unpublished projects.

Luisa Lambri

Matthew Drutt

At once an installation artist and photographer, Olafur Eliasson is noted for conceptual works based on architecture, science, and natural phenomena. Through his installations--composed of materials such as ice, water, light, and metallic crystalline structures--and photographic series of landscapes, he generates a close connection between the phenomenology of things and their surroundings. His work sets out from human perception and, as he himself puts it, "questions the way we see and all the different systems of seeing." This first survey of Eliasson's photographic works focuses on an aspect of his oeuvre that has heretofore been marginalized, contextualizing his photographic projects within his broader scheme and within the history of contemporary art.

Olafur Eliasson: Photographs

Eliasson, Olafur

Drutt, Matthew

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