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Robert Rauschenberg: Work from Four Series
The relationships between four of Texas native Robert
Rauschenberg's mature series—the Kabal American Zephyrs,
Cardboards, Hoarfrosts and Bifocals—were explored in
the exhibition (which celebrated Texas’ Sesquicentennial)
documented by this catalogue. The artist has always worked
in series but they are often seen as discrete directions,
unrelated to one another. The exhibition and accompanying
catalogue demonstrated that the artist returns to similar
themes and uses the same formal devices across his seemingly
disparate oeuvre. Includes essays by Donald Barthelme and
Linda L. Cathcart, a chronology of the period covered by
the four series by Marti Mayo; documentation on the artist’s
career subsequent to his 1976 retrospective.
1985. 86 pages, 19 color, 39 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-15-9 $22.95 |
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Relative Positions [Perspectives
130]
This catalogue documents an exhibition of the work
of Amy Adler, Liza May Post and Francesca Woodman.
All three artists have found new uses for photography
in the service of representation. The three artists
use a variety of practices that they employ to make
unique works of art. Artifice, performance, surrealism
and conceptualism inform the work of all three. Includes
an essay by Paola Morsiani; documentation on the artists’ careers.
2001. 24 pages, 12 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-96080-70-1 $2.00
THIS PUBLICATION IS OUT OF PRINT. |
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Milton Resnick
Milton Resnick, a first-generation abstract expressionist,
has devoted a lifetime of unwavering dedication
to a style of painting that has not enjoyed a fashionable
revival.
The exhibition and accompanying publication document
his first major museum retrospective, a show of 40
years of his work. Part of no school of painters and
without a plethora of followers, his persistent devotion
to an individual way of working is celebrated in this
extraordinary publication.
1996. 112 pages, 44 color, 4 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-14-0
THIS PUBLICATION IS OUT OF PRINT
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Sam Reveles: Recent Paintings
and Drawings [Perspectives 114]
In paintings and drawings executed from 1996-1999,
Sam Reveles has made work that combines the realism
of landscape renderings with the tenets of classical
abstraction. His colorful, lush paintings energetically
journey between Eastern and Western cultures, and the
trip is often a romantic one. Includes an essay by
Lynn M. Herbert; documentation on the artist’s
career
1999. 23 pages, 11 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-50-7 $2.00 |
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Matthew Ritchie: Proposition
Player
This significant book documents the first major museum
exhibition of this multi-media artist’s work
and features extensive color photographs including
shots of four large pieces created specifically for
the soaring interiors of the Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston. Ritchie’s complex and imaginary story
of the history of the universe is told through his
monumental yet intricate paintings, drawings, sculpture
and digital animations. He explores a self-created
cosmological system — an endless and complex
landscape where various ideas and concepts can coexist—drawing
upon a vocabulary of scientific notations, cartoon
characters, mythology, biblical tales and pulp fiction.
In addition to the paintings and drawings for which
Ritchie has become internationally known, a number
of works in new media were included in the project—a
one-hundred foot long, three-dimensional drawing that
literally comes off the wall winding in and around
the viewer, an interactive craps table with digital
animation, an enormous rubber floor mosaic, and a deck
of cards featuring the cast of characters that peoples
Ritchie’s universe. Includes a foreword by Marti
Mayo; essays by Lynn M. Herbert, Laura Steward Heon,
and Janelle Porter; an interview with the artist by
Thyrza Nichols Goodeve; selected writings by the artist;
an illustrated chronology of Ritchie’s previous
exhibitions and public projects; selected readings
that are important source materials for Ritchie; and
documentation on the artist’s career.
2004. 138 pages; 76 black-and-white and 90 color reproductions,
several of which are double spreads. ISBN 0-936080-04-1
THIS PUBLICATION IS OUT OF PRINT
Published by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in
association with Hatje Cantz Publishers |
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Dario Robleto: I Thought
I Knew Negation Until You Said Goodbye [Perspectives127]
This San Antonio-based artist integrates the disc-jockey
practice of sampling into his work to produce three-dimensional
mixed-media work. Among other components, Robleto often
incorporates actual melted vinyl records in his installations
and sculpture. Highly influenced by the world of popular
music, Robleto uses the history of popular music and
its signature musicians to critique issues related
to ideas of originality and reproduction in the visual
arts, as well as broader questions concerning science
and technology. Includes an essay by Paola Morsiani;
documentation on the artist’s career.
2001. 24 pages, 19 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-67-1 $2.00 |
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Alexis Rockman: Dioramas
[Perspectives 105]
The exhibition and catalogue focused on a then new
body of work by New York artist Alexis Rockman. The
artist portrays nature in all it beauty and cruelty
with the use of non-art materials and approaches including
actual objects, computer generated prints, household
trash, and taxidermied specimens into wall-dependent
works encased in thick blocks of resin.
Includes an essay by Alexandra Irvine; documentation
on the artist’s career
1997. 20 pages, 10 black-and-white reproductions. No
ISBN $2.00 |
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