The collection of the Weisman Art Museum includes an array of art and artifacts, featuring works by such artists as Georgia O'Keefe, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, Berenice Abbott, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, and James Rosenquist. In this eclectic tribute, an essay by museum director Lyndel King introduces paintings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics, and other objects from this significant university collection.
From his early experiments with cubism and surrealism to the brightly colored aluminum constructions that became his signature work, the American modernist Charles Biederman has pioneered avant-garde art forms, styles, and theories for more than seventy years. This comprehensive overview of his life and work features the broad array of paintings and sculptures he has created during his prolific and influential artistic career."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition, On the edge of your seat : Popular theater and film in early-twentieth century American art, organized by the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring over 100 color illustrations of works by artists from Charles Demuth, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe to Janine Antoni, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, and Glenn Ligon, this timely publication probes the ways we think about and picture the self and others. With particular focus on three periods during which non-mimetic portraiture flourished--1912-25, 1961-70, and 1990-the present--the authors investigate issues related to technology, sexuality, artist networks, identity politics, and social media, and explore the emergence of new models for the visual representation of identity. Taking its title from a 1961 work by Robert Rauschenberg--a telegram that stated, "This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so"--this book unites paintings, sculpture, photography, and text portraits that challenge the genre in significant, often playful ways and question the convention, as well as the limits, of traditional portrayal.
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