Yes Yoko Ono
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This illustrated book is the first full survey of the artist's career to include work in all media, including film and music. An introductory essay by Alexandra Munroe explores Ono's life, her relationship to international avant-garde movements in America and Japan, and the aspects of her art and thought that have guided her prolific production over four decades.
Ana Mendieta : earth body : sculpture and performance, 1972-1985
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This book traces Ana Mendieta's (1948-85) development from the early performance-based works made as a student at the University of Iowa, where she was grounded in the conceptual and body-oriented practices of the 1960s and 1970s, to the creation of independent sculptures and objects in the early 1980s made with fragile, earthen materials. Rooted in nature and in the body, Mendieta's art was inflected by personal identity and femininity, and distinguished by its insistent hybridity. Her earth-body works, or Silueta Series (silhouette series), fused aspects of conceptual, process, performance, body, feminist, and land art. While contributing significantly to these varied dialogues, her work does not fit neatly within any of the accepted terms used to describe artistic activity in the decade.
Radical women : Latin American art, 1960-1985
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This stunning reappraisal offers long overdue recognition to the enormous contribution to the field of contemporary art of women artists in Latin America and those of Latino and Chicano heritage working during a pivotal time in history. Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th century in Latin America and the US, women artists were staking their claim in nearly every field. This wide ranging volume examines the work of more than 100 female artists with nearly 300 works in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance art, and other experimental media.
Black American portraits : from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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This selection of approximately 140 works from LACMA's permanent collection highlights emancipation, scenes from the Harlem Renaissance, portraits from the Civil Rights and Black Power eras, multiculturalism of the 1990s and the spirit of Black Lives Matter. Countering a visual culture that often demonizes Blackness and fetishizes the spectacle of Black pain, these images center love, abundance, family, community and exuberance.
Mirror images : women, Surrealism, and self-representation
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Whitney Chadwick provides a fresh look at women Surrealist artists of the 1930 and 1940s, and finds provocative parallels with many of today's leading women artists.
WACK! : art and the feminist revolution
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Accompanies the exhibition "WACK! Art and the feminist revolution," organized by Cornelia Butler and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 4 March-16 July 2007
Modern contemporary : art at MoMA since 1980
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Modern Contemporary is the first publication to address the extensive holdings of contemporary art in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The book covers an international spectrum of art in a variety of mediums all made within the final two decades of the twentieth century.
Drawing Now
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Joseph Beuys -- Mel Bochner -- James Lee Byars -- John Cage -- Christo -- Chuck Close -- Hanne Darboven -- Jim Dine -- Mark di Suvero -- Oyvind Fahlstrom -- Dav Flavin -- Richard Hamilton -- Michael Heizer -- Eva Hesse -- David Hockney -- Jasper Johns -- Donald Judd -- Ellsworth Kelly -- Sol Lewitt -- Roy Lichtenstein -- Robert Mangold -- Piero Manzoni -- Brice Marden -- Agnes Martin -- Robert Morris -- Bruce Nauman -- Claes Oldenburg -- Palermo -- Panamarenko -- Larry Poons -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Bridget Riley -- Dorothea Rockburne -- Robert Ryman -- Fred Sandback -- Richard Serra -- Robert Smithson -- Frank Stella -- Jean Tinguely -- Richard Tuttle -- Cy Twombly -- Andy Warhol.
Living as form : socially engaged art from 1991-2011
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'Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.
The Words of Nam June Paik
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No artist has had a greater influence in imagining and realizing the artistic potential of video and television than Nam June Paik. Through a vast array of installations, videotapes, global television productions, films and performances, Paik has reshaped our perceptions of the temporal image in contemporary art. The Worlds of Nam June Paik is a celebration of the moving image and an appreciation of Paik's impact on the art of the late twentieth century.
Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, and Guggenheim Museum at Ace Gallery, New York, September 19, 1997-January 7, 1998, and at three other museums through February 26, 1999
Black male : representations of masculinity in contemporary American art
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Artists include: Robert Arneson ; Jean-Michel Basquiat ; Nayland Blake ; Mel Chin ; Robert Colescott ; Renée Cox ; Dawn Ader DeDeaux ; Kevin Everson ; Leon Golub ; David Hammons ; Lyle Ashton Harris ; Barkley L. Hendricks ; Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon ; Jeff Koons ; Glenn Ligon ; Robert Mapplethorpe ; Adrian Piper ; Carl Pope ; Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Angelo Abreu, George Garces, Nelson Montes, Jose Parissi, Carlos Rivera, Annette Rosado, Nelson Savinon) ; Alsion Saar ; Andres Serrano ; Gary Simmons ; Lorna Simpson ; Danny Tisdale ; Christian Walker ; Carrie Mae Weems ; Pat Ward Wiliams ; Fred Wilson ; X-PRZ (Doug Anderson, Kenseth Armstead, Tony Cokes, Mark Pierson)
The last picture show : artists using photography, 1960-1982
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Traversing the fine line between artists who are photographers and artists who use photography, The Last Picture Show traces the development of Conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from their first glimmerings in the 1960s in the work of artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Bruce Nauman, and Edward Ruscha to their rise to art world prominence in the work of the Picture Theory artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Silvia Kolbowski, Richard Prince, and Cindy Sherman.
Into the light : the projected image in American art, 1964-1977
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From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, projected installations helped to create a new language of art-making. By transforming traditionally static viewing spaces into active participatory fields, experiments with the moving image in those decades dramatically expanded the parameters of modern art, producing some of the most significant moving image installations in modern art history. Since that time, the projected image has become a prominent feature of contemporary art-making, and the incorporation of large-scale moving images by artists into installations now has a rich history. But due to the ephemeral nature of the original art works, many classic installations, while remembered, have not been widely seen.