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Language: English
Published by Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004
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- Title
- Guggenheim Museum Collection A to Z
- Publisher
- Guggenheim Museum Publications
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0892072415
- ISBN 13
- 9780892072415
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Series
- Book 12 of 13: Guggenheim Museum Publications
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Review
The entries range from more traditional thumbnail descriptions of artists and objects in the celebrated collection to some fairly arcane sections devoted to concepts like the fourth dimension (illustrated by a Braque cubist painting). The formidable art theorist Rosalind Krauss writes an entry on informe, elucidating French philosopher Bataille's principle of "formlessness": "Although Bataille's analogue for the informe was the crushed spider or the blob of spittle, and though Miró's detour from painting took the form of working with trash, Giacometti's example of formlessness cannily assumed a highly polished, even geometrically simple set of shapes." If you're up on art, you're intrigued; if Krauss confuses you, don't panic--simply turn to the accessible entry on Giacometti, which is more straightforwardly biographical.
I'm not sure an alphabetical listing is the best way to put the Guggenheim's awesome 20th-century masterworks in the clearest possible context. But this handbook is concise, lively, handsome, and a bit perverse. --Victoria Ellison
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