Edited Ralph Rugoff (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 187 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and on view from December 13, 2003 to May 23, 2004. Essays by Dan Cameron, Amada Cruz, Jessica Morgan, Ralph Rugoff and Katy Siegel. Foreword by Neal Benezra. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** "Su-per-no-va: n., pl. A rare celestial phenomenon involving the explosion of most of the material in a star, resulting in an extremely bright, short-lived object that emits vast amounts of energy. Given the massive shift in the West's cultural sensibility in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the current global political situation, the 1990s and its over-the-top, anything-goes art scene suddenly appear much more historical than contemporary. If we really are at the turning point that we seem to be, then we've arrived at a particularly opportune moment for reconsideration, for assessing the legacy of the decade after the frenzy has subsided. Supernova brings together a number of curators and critics--each of whom was actively involved in constructing the 1990s art discourse--to step back and consider what trans-identity, broad-based thematic trends can now be identified as emblematic of, or seminal to, the decade. The Kent and Vicki Logan collection of contemporary art offers a compelling and visually alluring vehicle to consider such issues, as these ambitious collectors were firmly planted at the center of the scene--acquiring some of the most challenging and iconic art of the period, including works by Young British Artists (YBAs), Asian practitioners and a diverse array of influential women artmakers. In Supernova, reproductions of these artists' works are dispersed among contributors' essays, which explore such themes as beauty and the abject, iconoclasm and the role of social activism in art." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction and interview with Vicki and Kent Logan, by Madeleine Grynsztejn; Representation to production: art as social critique, by Jessica Morgan; Beyond tech: the current role of painting, by Dan Cameron; Post-surrealist art in the Logan collection, by Ralph Rugoff; The politics of the personal, by Amada Cruz; The private collector: making the nineties, by Katy Siegel. *** Focus on: Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Takashi Murakami - Robert Gober - Damien Hirst - Katharina Fritsch. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 18 x 23,5 cm, Hardcover with dust-jaket, 304 pages, 500 colour illustrations - This publication is concerned with play, mapping, and the experience of a collective writing. Thought of as a history, geography, and contemporary art book, it is the result of a series of delegations, invitations, and programs of those who conceived the event. Bringing together 70 players from around the world, divided into two groups according to whether they are artists or critics and exhibition curators, the project was developed around a central question: How to define the current decade.…

Condition: Très bon. 228 pages : illustrations en noir et en couleurs ; 25,4 x 28,6 x 2,5 cm || Texte anglais || Sans aucune inscription.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. No Jacket, As Issued. 384 pp., 399 illustrations 350 in color. Ilustrated boards. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA October 14, 2004-January 9, 2005. A comprehensive survey that highlights more than 10 years of intelligent, elegant, and humorous production.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Single issue. Winter, 1954-1955. 67pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers lightly age-toned and stained internally, holes in wrapper near staples, small pen mark on rear wrapper, still very good. Many interesting literary contributions including Allen Ginsberg's "Last Stanzas in Denver". "Words to a Young Man" by John McAlpin Berryman. "Bureaucrats: Diggers" by Tom Merton. "Serenade, and Old Songs" by John Erskine. "Identity" by Mark Van Doren. Other contributors are: Brander Matthews, Joyce Kilmer, Alfred A. Knopf, Guy Sommerville, Paul W. Gallico, Henry Morton Robinson, Irwin Edman, Mortimer J. Adler, Whittaker Chambers, Millen Brand, H. Lloyd Frankenberg, Ben Maddow, Corey H. Ford, William Y. Tindall, Clifton Fadiman, Jacques Martin Barzun, Lionel Trilling, Eleazar Lipsky, Milton Rugoff, Herman Wouk, James A. Wechsler, Ralph de Toledano, Daniel G. Hoffman, Herb Gold, Robert Laguardia, John Hollander, Richard Howard, and Stephen Orgel.…