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The Anxious Salon
OUT OF PRINT
1993, MIT List Visual Arts Center
A full-color 14-page catalogue. The exhibition featured paintings by Vincent Desiderio, Attila Richard Lukacs, Odd Nerdrum, Hanneline Røgeberg, and Thomas Woodruff. Introduction and artist entries by Ron Platt and Helaine Posner.
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Next of Kin: Looking at the Great Apes
1995, MIT List Visual Arts Center
The six artists represented in this exhibition employ a variety of aesthetic approaches to advance our understanding of our complex and multivalent relationships with the great apes. James Balog, Walton Ford, Sean Landers, Jean Lowe, Richard Ross and Daisy Youngblood either critique or look beyond the historically-erected symbology and archetypes which tend to dominate contemporary consideration of our simian next of kin. Essay and artists' entries by curator Ron Platt; additional essays by Harriet Ritvo and Tommy L. Lott.
$12
ISBN: 0-938437-50-X
paper, 48 pages, including color and b/w illus.,
artists' bios. and biblios.
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The Masculine Masquerade:
Masculinity and Representation
1995, MIT Press
While the subject of the feminine has been explored in depth over the past generation, until very recently its counterpart, masculinity, has been largely ignored in contemporary art exhibitions. This thematic exhibition explores the social construction of masculinity through the works of eleven artists, including Matthew Barney, Tina Barney, Clegg & Guttman, Graham Durward, Lyle Ashton Harris, Dale Kistemaker, Mary Kelly, Donald Moffett, Keith Piper, Charles Ray and Michael Yue Tong. The fully illustrated catalog examines postwar views on masculinity from an interdisciplinary perspective. In addition to a primary focus on the visual arts, masculinity in sociology, literature, cultural studies and the mass media are also examined. Contributors include co-curators Helaine Posner and Andrew Perchuk, Simon Watney, Harry Brod, Steven Cohan, bell hooks, and Glenn Ligon.
$25
ISBN: 0-262-16154-0(hc)
cloth, 160 pages, artist bios. and biblios.,
includes extensive bibliography on masculinity
in the arts and culture
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Leon Golub and Nancy Spero: War and Memory
1994, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Leon Golub and Nancy Spero are senior American painters whose works have consistently wrestled with questions of power and the individual. Golub's monumental canvases, with their looming figures and lacerated surfaces thrust themselves belligerently into the spectator's face. Spero's more delicate works on paper, episodic and ephemeral, infiltrate the spectator's awareness more surreptitiously. War and Memory, a joint retrospective, is the first major exhibition to survey their strangely interdependent symmetry. Essay by Katy Kline and Helaine Posner.
$20
ISBN: 0-938437-48-8
paper, 103 pages, color and b/w illus., biblios., bios.
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Muntadas: Between the Frames: The Forum
1995, MIT List Visual Arts Center
A document of the video installation by Spanish artist Antonio Muntadas, this catalog includes stills from the installation, comments from Muntadas, and production notes from Caterina Borelli. Between The Frames confronts viewers with a provocative series of interviews casting light on the practices and values embedded in the institutional presentation of contemporary art. It is a rich and illuminating stimulus to discourse — addressing as it does a variety of cultural practices from a truly international perspective. Published by the List Visual Arts Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, the catalog includes essays by Wexner Centercurator of new media Bill Horrigan and independent curator Debra Balken.
$15
ISBN: 0-938437-49-6, LC: 31860
paper, 48 pages, color and b/w illus., bio. and biblio.
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Ghost in the Machine
1994, MIT List Visual Arts Center
The capabilites of digital imaging challenge our assumptions about photography's role in relation to issues of authenticity and reality, while also revealing how sophisticated new technologies allow artists unprecedented freedom in the creation and manipulation of photographic images. The six artists represented in this exhibition employ conceptual art strategies while maintaining a focus on the human form and human condtion. The heightened sense of reality created in these human and machine collaborations can seem the work of a spectral presence born during the interactive process. Artists in the exhibition are Anthony Aziz & Sammy Cucher, Keith Cottingham, Jeff Wall, and Michael Wenyon & Susan Gamble. Essay and artists entries by Ron Platt, assistant curator, List Visual Arts Center.
$5
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Sandy Walker: Woodblock Prints
1994, MIT List Visual Arts Center
A group of large, dramatic woodblock prints by this California artist manage to balance the competing demands of eye, intellect and emotion. They hover between abstraction and representation. Though based in nature the prints are less the mirror of a specific location than an evocation of the rhythms and pulses of the natural world. Essay by Katy Kline.
$8
ISBN: 0-938437-47-XI
paper, 13 b/w prints; catalogue raisonné
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Maria Fernanda Cardoso
OUT OF PRINT
1994, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Colombian artists Maria Fernanda Cardoso has devoted much of her artistic energy to exploring the often tenuous, always fascinating bond between humans and other animal species. In her sculpture she transforms preserved grasshoppers, snakes, frogs, piranhas and other fauna into classical minimal shapes and arrangements. Essay by curator Ron Platt.
$5
ISBN: 0-938437-46-1
paper, 32 pages, 16 full color and b/w illus., biblios., bios.
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Angela Grauerholz: Recent Photographs
1993, MIT List Visual Arts Center
This exhibition includes fourteen recent, large-scale black and white photographs by a German-born artist presently living and working in Montréal. Portraits, nudes, landscapes, urban sites and interior settings are among Grauerholz's diverse subjects. Her tentative images are soft-focused, sepia-toned and ambiguous in relation to time and place. Influenced by film and literature, the artist wants her photographs to be "as open as I can possibly make them, so that the viewer can reinvest what he or she feels into a particular scene, into a particular image." Essay by the curator Helaine Posner.
$8
ISBN: 0-938437-45-3, LC: 93-79813
paper, 32 pages, 14 bi-color illus., bio. and biblio.
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Subversive Crafts
1993, MIT List Visual Arts Center
This exhibition brings together the work of twelve artists from the United States and Canada who undermine the decorative and comfortable domesticity usually associated with crafts. Though crafts have too often been considered the stepchildren of the more intellectual and elevated "Fine Arts", these subversive crafts people acknowledge the realm of the familiar and homey everyday object as a powerful milieu to provide an intimate, experiential and incisive commentary on the emotive conditions of contemporary life. Artists: Laura Baird, Kate Boyan, Lou Cabeen, Nancy Edell, John Garret, Anne Kraus, Keith Lewis, Paul Mathieu, Matt Nolen, Richard Notkin, Leslie Sampson, Jane Sauer, Joyce Scott, Barbara Todd, and Lillian Tyrell. Introductory essay and essays on individual artists by Katy Kline.
$15
ISBN: 0-938437-44-5, LC: 93-78548
paper, 60 pages, color illus., bios. and biblios.
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Corporal Politics
OUT OF PRINT
1992, Beacon Press and MIT List Visual Arts Center
This exhibition examines the prevalence of the body fragment as both theme and content in contemporary art, demonstrating the dramatic, often disturbing degree of dissolution which has characterized recent art. Work by artists Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Annette Messager, Rona Pondick, Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault include representations of internal organs, bodily fluids, isolated limbs and other body parts which speak to the alienation and sense of fragmentation of individuals in today's society. These artists deconstruct ideals of coherent identity and an integrated self. Introduction by Donald Hall. Essays by Thomas Laqueur and curator Helaine Posner as well as additional texts by the artists.
$15
LC: 92-34401, ISBN: 0-8070-6601-X
paper, 72 pages, 28 color and b/w illus.,
co-published by Beacon Press
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Michiko Kon: Still Lives
1992, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Japanese photographer Michiko Kon's rich black and white photographs hover between the grotesque and the poetic. Her theatrically staged Surrealist still-lifes combine organic materials which range from flowers to vegetables to that most emblematic of Japanese cultural icons — raw fish. The sense of impending decay embodied in the fleshy materials and references to the body underscores photography's ability to freeze and preserve the transitory. Introduction by Katy Kline. Essay by Michiko Kasahara.
$5
paper, 10 pages, 7 b/w illus. |
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The Process of Elimination: The Bathroom,
The Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste
1992, Princeton Architectural Press
This exhibition examines overlapping patterns of biological digestion, economic consumption, and aesthetic simplification. The observation is made that the streamlined style of modern design, which served the new ideals of bodily hygiene while engaging the manufacturing policy of planned obsolescence, emanated from the domestic landscape of the bathroom and kitchen. The organically modeled yet machine-made surfaces of streamlined objects are shown to have collapsed the natural and the artificial, the biological and the industrial, into an aesthetics of waste. Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller.
$20
ISBN: 0-938437-42-9
paper, 80 pages, color and b/w illus.
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Terra Nova: Drawings and Models by Lebbeus Woods
1992, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Lebbeus Woods is an experimental architect whose wildly visionary inventions explore alternative possibilities in societal living. His technology is equally romantic, optimistic and sinister. Essay by Diana DuPont with additional text by the artist.
$3
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Orshi Drozdik, Jon Tower: Science Fictions
1992, MIT List Visual Arts Center
This two-person exhibition examines the fugitive nature of various scientific systems. Jon Tower's drawings, sculpture and installations are wry ruminations on mathematics, chemistry and genetics and address how beliefs come to be accepted or rejected. Orshi Drozdik uses the display techniques of the natural science museum to comment nostalgically on the gradual obsolescence of Enlightenment physics, 19th century medicine and Linnean botany. Introductions by Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. Interview by Jan Avgikos and essay by Jon Tower.
$2
ISBN: 0-938437-41-0, LC: 92-54122
paper, 47 pages, 15 b/w illus.
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Cannibal Eyes
1992, MIT List Visual Arts Center
The five artists in this exhibition incorporate existing photographs into their own photographic work, often radically rejuxtaposing the recycled or "cannibalized" imagery to darkly comic or profoundly disturbing effect. The work addresses such diverse issues as the objectification of women, the seductive nature of war, and genetic manipulation. Work by John O'Reilly, Tina Potter, Aura Rosenberg, John Schlesinger and Joachim Schmid. Essay and texts on each artist by Ron Platt.
$7
ISBN: 0-938437-40, LC: 91-51145
paper, 24 pages, bios., biblios., 15 b/w illus.
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Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Drawings
OUT OF PRINT
1991, MIT List Visual Arts Center
The first American retrospective of this Danish artist's work, this exhibition includes work executed from 1982 through 1989. An essay by the curator, Helaine Posner places the work in context.
$15
ISBN: 0-938437-39-9, LC: 91-50794
paper, 48 pages, bio., biblio., 5 color-5 b/w illus.
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Warren Neidich: Historical In(ter)vention
1991, MIT List Visual Arts Center
An installation consisting of photography, video and sculpture examining the contradictions of the American past as well as the ways in which the media shape and distort our perceptions of cultural events. Essay by David Joselit with text by Warren Neidich. Introduction by Ron Platt and Anita Doutha.
$5
ISBN: 0-938437-38-0, LC: 91-052868
paper, 16 pages, 9 color-b/w illus.
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Barbara Broughel: Storytelling Chairs
OUT OF PRINT
1991, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Broughel's assemblages, made with a bi-cultural collage of elements, speak of the conquest of the Iroquois and embody the Euro-Indian cultural pastiche that it produced. Eight chairs encourage viewers to ponder the thin line between borrowing and plundering and to acknowledge the morality of indebtedness. Essay by Edward Ball.
$2.50
ISBN: 0-938437-37-2
paper, accordion brochure contains full-color
reproductions of the chairs and 4 b/w illus.
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Juan Francisco Elso Padillo
1991, MIT List Visual Arts Center
The Cuban sculptor, who died in 1988, created a small but influential body of work devoted to identifying a particularly Latin American mythology through an unusual combination of secularism and mysticism. The works on view, in wood and other natural materials, include the monumental piece left unfinished at his death. This is the first public exhibition of Elso's work in the United States. Essay by Luis Camnitzer.
$5
ISBN: 0-938437-36-4
paper, 15 pages, bio., biblio., 23 b/w illus.
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(not so) Simple Pleasures: Content
and Contentment in Contemporary Art
1991, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Painting, sculpture, crafts, and photography by ten artists from across the United States and Canada who use various subtle strategies to embed potent meaning within an attractive object or image. Work by Judie Bamber, Michael Banicki, John Currin, Ronald Jones, Ken Lum, Joyce Scott, Andres Serrano, Masami Teraoka. Essay by Dana Friis-Hansen.
$8
ISBN: 0-938437-34-8, LC: 90-050870
paper, 32 pages, bios., biblios., 23 b/w illus.
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