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Fred Sandback/Sculpture
Fred Sandback created an elegant, airy sculptural structure
designed especially for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s
large Brown Foundation Gallery. Using only colored yarn,
the artist defined the elusive form and space of this large
parallelogram. The catalogue was co-published with Yale University
Art Gallery on the occasion of simultaneous exhibitions of
Sandback's work at both institutions. Includes essays by
Suzanne Delehanty, Richard S. Field, Sasha M. Newman and
Phyllis Tuchman; documentation on the artist’s career.
Hardcover. Published jointly by the Yale University Art
Gallery and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
1989. 48 pages, 8 color, 28 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-89467-056-5 $18.95
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See America First: The Prints
of H.C. Westermann [Perspectives 134]
Published to accompany the Perspectives presentation
of Westermann’s first print retrospective, the
small catalogue introduces the artist’s corpus
of work in the medium. His 53 print compositions—linocuts,
woodcuts and lithographs—provide an entré into
Westermann’s working procedures and range from
his earliest linoleum cuts to mature print series.
Includes a statement on the exhibition, documentation
on the artist’s career.
2002. 4 pages. ISBN 0-936080-77-9 $2.00 |
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Peter Shelton: sixtyslippers
[Perspectives 117]
In an exhibition organized by the Berkeley Art Museum,
University of California, Peter Shelton used suspended
disks to disorient and inform viewers about space,
time and dimensions. The artist employed sixty cast
iron symbol-shaped hanging forms to parallel and reinforce
the placement and form of the human body. Includes
an essay by Marti Mayo.
1999. 4 pages, 2 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-56-6 $2.00
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Simply Beautiful [Perspectives
103]
Featuring the work of Texas artists Bill Davenport,
Alejandro Diaz, David Fulton, Joe Mancuso, Franco Mondini
Ruiz, Robert Montgomery and Katrina Moorhead, the exhibition
and catalogue comprise objects created through modest
gestures or processes with humble, readily available
materials. The project slyly confronts notions of what
is "simple" and what is "beautiful.” Includes
an essay by Dana Friis-Hansen, documentation on the
artists’ careers.
Selected biographies and bibliographies
1997. 21 pages, 7 black-and-white reproductions. No
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South Bronx Hall of Fame:
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres immortalized their
South Bronx studio’s neighbors through their
art. Sometimes working collaboratively, sometimes alone,
the artists created three-dimensional plaster casts
of the torsos of the people around their Bronx studio.
Their work is a measure of their interest in strengthening
the community in which they worked. Includes essays
by Richard Goldstein, Michael Ventura and Marilyn A.
Zeitlin; documentation on the artists’ careers.
1991. 112 pages, 30 color, 93 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-21-3 $24.95
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Southern Fictions
This seminal exhibition and catalogue took as its subject
the propensity of southerners to involve themselves
in narrative, to tell verbal and visual stories that
deal with their home, family and their land. The
work of 29 artists living and working in the South
was included, among them Derek Boshier, James Drake,
Vernon Fisher, Jimmy Jalapeeno, Melissa Miller, Julian
Schnabel, Earl Staley, James Surls, Susan Whyne and
others. Includes comments by Linda L. Cathcart and
Marti Mayo, essays by William S. Fagaly and Dr. Monroe
K. Spears;
documentation on the artists’ careers.
1983. 80 pages, 6 color, 28 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-11-6 $12.50 |
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Earl Staley: 1973-1983
This publication accompanied a retrospective exhibition
of the long-time Houston painter's work from 1973
to 1983. It was co-organized with the New Museum
of Contemporary Art, New York,. The artist’s
painterly techniques and exotic iconography coincided
with the 1980s interest in painterly expressionism
producing a synergy of intention and fashion. Exhibited
work included Staley’s paintings of Big Bend
National Park—the quintessential Texas landscape—as
well as his work representing Mexican folk and formal
ceremonies, portraits and the Italian landscapes
he completed as a recipient of the Prix de Rome.
Includes essays by Linda L. Cathcart and Marcia Tucker;
documentation of the artist’s career
Published jointly by the New Museum of Contemporary
Art and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
1983. 96 pages, 12 color, 62 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-915557-37-1 $13.50 |
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Splat Boom Pow! The Influence
of Cartoons in Contemporary Art
The publication accompanied an exhibition that presented
over 80 works of art by 35 artists. Beginning with
Pop Art in the 1960’s, the exhibition explores
the influence of cartoons and comics in contemporary
art over three generations of contemporary art activity.
The project traces the use of iconography and techniques
borrowed from the comics and used by artists to point
out and advance their own political, social, racial
and cultural agendas. Among the artists whose work
is included in the exhibition are: Laylah Ali, Michael
Ray Charles, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Elizabeth
Murray, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Kenny Scharf, Andy
Warhol, and many others. Includes essays by Valerie
Cassel, Roger Sabin, and Bernard Welt; a comics timeline
by Jamie Colville; documentation on the artists’ careers.
2003. 128 pages, 46 color, 8 black and white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-78-7 $24.95
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Pat Steir (See Arbitrary
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Strange Messenger: The Work
of Patti Smith [Perspectives 137]
The exhibition was the first museum show of the work
of this well-known symbol of 1970s music counter-culture.
For over three decades, Patti Smith’s work as
a poet, musician and performer has been widely admired
and celebrated. Her work as a visual artist, although
intimately connected with her life and her music, is
less well known. The exhibition presented Smith’s
drawings from the 1960s to the opening years of the
new millennium. Includes an excerpt from a longer essay
by John Smith, brief documentation on the artist’s
career.
2003. 4 pages. ISBN 0-936080-81-7 $2.00 |
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Perspectives 151: Dan Steinhilber
This catalogue was published to accompany Perspectives 151: Dan Steinhilber, an exhibition featuring work designed specifically for the spaces of the Zilkha Gallery. Steinhilber constructs his sculpture out of large quantities of consumer detritus—plastic hangers, balloons, take-out containers, packing materials, chewing gum—which he sees as the signifiers of a culture of consumption that is global in nature. The shape, surface quality, color, and texture of these mass-market materials are essential components of his compositions, which function within an updated minimalist aesthetic. Includes an essay by Valerie Cassel Oliver, documentation on the artist’s career.
2006. 13 pages. Cover. 6 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN 1-933619-00-8. $2.00
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Subject Plural
Published to accompany an exhibition focusing around
fifteen artists pursuing ideas and interests that
place them within the new century’s broad social
context—one informed by electronic media, global
mobility and the blending of traditional cultures
with a new internationalism. Artists included are
Francis Alys, Vanessa Beecroft, Nikki S. Lee, Glenn
Ligon, Paul Pfeiffer, Do-Ho-Suh and others. Includes
essays by Paola Morsiani and Peter Wollen; documentation
on the artists’ careers.
2001. 104 pages, 31 color, 28 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-65-5
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
The exhibition was originally organized by The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, and re-constituted by
the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Hara
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, for presentation
at both institutions. Sugimoto’s work always
transcends the particulars that are its subject
matter to work as abstract images of the deeper
mythologies of mankind. The exhibition documented
by this catalogue comprised four series: Theatres,
Day Seascapes, Night Seascapes and the Hall of
Thirty-Three Bays.
1996. 96 pages, 34 tritone and quadratone reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-39-6(paperback); ISBN 0-936080-40-X (hardcover)
Published jointly by the Hara Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
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TEXAS/Between Two Worlds
The exhibition and publication are the second in a
series that documented artistic activity in Texas
in the early 1990s. (See First Texas Triennial
above.) The artists included were engaged in exploring
ambiguous spaces and the gray areas of human experience
such as the tension between the scientific and
the spiritual, life and death, nature and culture.
Fifteen artists were included: Helen Altman, Jesse
Amado, Tre Arenz, The Art Guys, Eric Avery, Thomas
Glassford, Kelli Scott Kelley, David McGee, Nic
Nicosia, Greg Reuter, Patricia Ruiz-Bayon, Bill
Thomas, Toby Topek, Anne Wallace and Casey Williams.
Includes entries on each artist by Peter Doroshenko;
documentation on the artists’ careers.
1993. 82 pages, 41 color, 11 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-33-7 $24.95
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Texas Draws [Perspectives
113]
This catalogue documents an exhibition that explored
the most fundamental definition of the term "drawing.” It
presents a variety of work by seventeen artists, all
of whom interpret the act of drawing in a unique manner.
Artists included are: Helen Altman, Troy Brauntuch,
Karin Broker, James Drake, Jeff Elrod, Sharon Engelstein,
Vernon Fisher, Mark Flood, Mark Greenwalt, Joe Havel,
Pam Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Angelbert Metoyer, Matthew
Sontheimer, Gael Stack, Robin Utterback, and Lloyd
Walsh. Includes an essay by Lynn M. Herbert; documentation
on the artists’ careers.
1999. 32 pages, 15 black-and-white reproductions. ISBN
0-936080-48-5 $2.00
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James Turrell: Spirit and
Light
An important exhibition of seven critical and seminal
installations by the Arizona-based artist who has spent
the last two decades creating a celestial observatory
at Roden Crater. Turrell’s installations use
the power of light to transport the viewer to experience
beyond the everyday world and encourage meditation
and awareness. The catalogue documents the installations,
a suite of 20 prints, First Light; and architectural
drawings, photographs and a model related to Roden
Crater. Includes the only list of Turrell’s publicly
accessible installations, essays by Lynn M. Herbert,
John Lienhard and Pittman McGehee; documentation on
the artist’s career.
1998. 72 pages, 29 color, 27 black-and-white reproductions.
ISBN 0-936080-43-4
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