Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document

Garrels, Gary, et al.

ISBN 10: 1881616452 / ISBN 13: 9781881616450

Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Distributed Art Publishers, San Francisco and New York, 1994

About this Item

187 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 18 to April 30, 1995. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** CONTENTS: Public information: desire, disaster, document, by Gary Garrels; Wrong, by Jim Lewis; Meditations on the document, by Sandra S. Phillips; Desiring machines: notes on commodity, celebrity, and death in the early work of Andy Warhol, by Christopher Phillips; Inside/out, by Abigail Solomon-Godeau; Leave proof: media and public information, by Robert R. Riley; Plates and commentary, by John S. Weber. *** Includes: Robert Frank - Andy Warhol - Gerhard Richter - Edward Ruscha - John Baldessari - Dan Graham - Martha Rosler - Larry Clark - Jeff Wall - James Coleman - Chantal Akerman - Nan Goldin - Stan Douglas - Cady Noland - and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Size: 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document
• Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Distributed Art Publishers, San Francisco and New York
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881616452
• ISBN 13: 9781881616450
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Collectible
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movements::Post-Modernism
  • USA::6. Late Modern, 1945-1999
  • Photography::Collections, Catalogues, Exhibitions
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES
  • XXL::Extra Extra Large

About this title

Synopsis

Texts by Gary Garrels, Sandra Phillips, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips, Robert Riley and John Weber.

Reviews

This publication accompanies the inaugural exhibition of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. With its impressive roster of some of the most influential late 20th-century artists to have used photographic images in their work (e.g., Robert Frank, Larry Clark, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Nan Goldin), the catalog functions as a barometer for a large plot in the current artistic landscape. Insightful essays from six authors addressing how society gets its information and the influence of the advertising media on the art world accompany handsome, albeit selective, reproductions. The book's scholarly examination of the overall cultural impact of photographically reproduced images, as well as the in-depth dissection of the nature of the medium itself, manages to be cohesive and illuminating without slighting the distinctive contributions of the artists. This truly first-rate production is recommended for contemporary art and photography collections.?Douglas McClemont, New York
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