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William Kentridge

Neal Benezra; William Kentridge; Lynne Cooke; Dan Cameron; Staci Boris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Neal David Benezra; Ari Sitas

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Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944-1960

Neal Benezra; Clyfford Still; David Anfam; Brooks Adams; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; James Demetrion

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Franz West

Neal Benezra; Robert Fleck; Bice Curiger; Franz West; Neal David Benezra

Synopsis:
In 1995 the Austrian Franz West transformed the terraces of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles into a glorious salon, with ranks of metal sofas draped with bright African fabrics: a new kind of public art for weary museum visitors. Drawing respiration from the history of art (reclining icons such as Manet's Olympia), psychoanalysis (Freud's sofa in West's native Vienna) and a socially interactive type of art, his work is at once both personal and public. As one of Europe's best-known sculptors, West is regularly invited to such major surveys as Skulptur. Projekte in Munster and Documenta. He has gained particular recognition for incorporating the bodies of his spectators into his sculpture, producing oddly-hued forms called Passstucke ('adaptives') -- plaster sculptures designed to be worn, and which contort the wearer into bizarre positions.

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Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century

Neal Benezra; Neal David Benezra; Arthur Coleman Danto; Olga M. Viso; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Haus Der Kunst Munchen

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The lavishly illustrated Regarding Beauty surveys late twentieth-century Western art to address why the timeless notion of beauty has recently been so hotly contested and, in the 1980s and 1990s in particular, so highly politicized. Are there accepted standards of beauty, or does beauty exist solely in the mind? Is beauty eternal, or a fleeting experience subject to changing fashion and tastes? Can one find beauty in ugliness? Hirshhorn Museum curators Neal Benezra and Olga M. Viso, analytical philosopher Arthur C. Danto, and Haus der Kunst curator Hubertus Gassner contribute essays regarding these questions in this volume, which accompanies an exhibition of approximately eighty paintings, sculptures, and installations by thirty-four artists. Emphasizing parallel approaches rather than trends or movements, illustrations juxtapose works by well-known Europeans and Americans of the past -- Yves Klein, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, for instance -- with the creations of a broad and diverse group of international contemporary artists to dramatize the fertile field of beauty as it relates to the figure, landscape, and abstraction. Regarding Beauty argues that beauty has not disappeared from the dialog of art and that, on the contrary, it has persisted as an essential element in the evolution of art as the 20th century passes into history.

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Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s

Neal Benezra; Neal David Benezra; Olga M. Viso; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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The Hirshhorn's landmark show 'Distemper' defined what may be the last major art trend of the 20th century -- the prevailing sense of social and cultural dismay that Washington columnist E.J. Dionne called the 'distemper' of the 1990s. This brilliant exhibition catalog presents the work of ten younger artists whose work reflects the distemper of the times: Miroslaw Balka, Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Mona Hatoum, Mike Kelley, Guillermo Kuitca, Charles Ray, Doris Salcedo, Thomas Schutte, and Rachel Whiteread. Together, they represent a wide swath of the globe, from Europe and the Americas to Africa and the Middle East. Although their artistic agendas vary widely, they share a sense of being cultural barometers.

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Stephan Balkenhol: Sculptures and Drawings

Neal Benezra; Stephan Balkenhol

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Bruce Nauman: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonne

Neal Benezra; Paul Schimmel; Robert Storr; Kathy Halbreich

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Bruce Nauman

Neal Benezra; Bruce Nauman; Kathy Halbreich

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Martin Puryear

Neal Benezra

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A catalogue and exhibition of Martin Puryear's work. It contains a selected Bibliography.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1993

Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art

Neal Benezra

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Ed Paschke

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Robert Arneson: A Retrospective

Neal Benezra; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Robert Arneson; Portland Art Museum (Or.); Des Moines Art Center

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Other editions: Softcover - 1986