Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean & Korean American Art

Kim, Elaine

Lee, Young C.

Hone, Minne

Fendrich, Laurie

Goodman, Jonath

Arts & Photography

Queens Museum of Art

This book represents themost thorough survey of conceptual art ever undertaken, and assembles the work of over one hundred artists. Decidedly international in scope, the book explores idea-based art from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, and North America. Featuring essays by over a dozen scholars.

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950-1980s

Jane Farver

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Five Works presents a much broader look at the American artist's oeuvre than its name suggests. This first major exhibition of Jonas's work in a New York museum includes a selection of the artist's works in installation and video, drawings, photographs and sketchbooks. Curated by Valerie Smith, QMA Director of Exhibitions, the show brings together five key works (aha!) from Jonas's career including Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy, Organic Honey: Vertical Roll (1972-1994), The Juniper Tree (1976-1978), Volcano Saga (1985-1994), Revolted by the Thought of Known Places...  (1992-2003), and Lines in the Sand (2002) . Also included are her portable My New Theater series (1997-1999), drawings and sketches. All of the works in the exhibition are presented in color and this catalogue which also includes an interview with Jonas and poet/scholars Susan Howe and Jeanne Heuving.

Joan Jonas: Five Works

Smith, Valerie

Finkelpearl, Tom

Individual Artists

An international array of artists including Isamu Noguchi, Jenny Holzer and Vito Acconci have been using the garden as a vehicle for commentary on social and political issues, in both public and private realms. The lush Down the Garden Path offers a critical history of their and other artists' garden work from the 1940s to the present, and verdant examples in categories including paradise; the memorial; private and public gardens; and ecologies, their alternatives and Schreber gardens. Among pieces that readers won't likely see elsewhere are Paula Hayes's Plantpack 2000, a miniature garden in a Snugli, and five newly commissioned gardens for Queens. With essays by Jamaica Kincaid among others.

Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism

KINCAID, Jamaica

Agyeman, Julian

Franzen, Brigitte

Wolschke-Bulmahn, Joachim

In an increasingly globalized cultural landscape, artists are often asked to represent their "home" country. But what if identifying home is a complex matter? The Queens Museum of Art organized the exhibition Generation 1.5 with this sort of ambiguity of origin in mind. With a title taking its name from the Korean-American phrase describing people who moved to a new country between the ages of 12 and 18, Generation 1.5 featured eight artists who made this transition--Ellen Harvey, Pablo Helguera, Emily Jacir, Lee Mingwei, Shirin Neshat, Seher Shah, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Nari Ward. This volume examines Generation 1.5 and the featured artists through interviews and essays that address cultural representation, cosmopolitanism, personal expression, alienation, the pain of transition, immigration, exile, and the complexity and limitations of identity politics. With essays and interviews by Man Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai, Pulitzer Prize finalist Suketu Mehta plus noted sociologists, artists, writers and curators.

Generation 1.5

Harvey, Matthea

Mehta, Suketu

Balaghi, Shiva

DESAI, KIRAN

Kokache, Moukhtar

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