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Sigmar Polke

Works on Paper 1963-1974

By: Margit Rowell,Sigmar Polke,Michael Semff,Bice Curiger,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Sigmar Polke

Works on Paper 1963-1974

By: Margit Rowell,Sigmar Polke,Michael Semff,Bice Curiger,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Sigmar Polke's thirty-five-year career, during which he has produced a vast range of work in all mediums, has earned him a reputation as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Born in 1941, he began his creative output around 1963 in Dusseldorf during a time of enormous social, cultural, and artistic changes in Germany and elsewhere. Few of his works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and subversive approach than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches produced during the 1960s and early 1970s. Embedded in these images are incisive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, the postwar political scene in Germany, and classic artistic conventions.

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0870700820

ISBN 13

9780870700828

Objects of Desire

The Modern Still Life

By: Margit Rowell

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Objects of Desire

The Modern Still Life

By: Margit Rowell

Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this text re-evaluates the genre of still life in terms of both subject matter and style. Margit Rowell, Chief Curator of The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Drawings, explains the qualities which have made the genre so attractive and enduring to artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Oldenburg and Christo. Questioning the common view of the still life as a minor art form, Rowell demonstrates how the paintings offer a unique index of their maker's interests, formal concerns and times.

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231

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1853321680

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9781853321689

The Russian Avant-garde Book, 1910-1934

By: Margit Rowell,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The Russian Avant-garde Book, 1910-1934

By: Margit Rowell,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Edited by Deborah Wye and Margit Rowell. Essays by Jared Ash, Gerald Janecek, Nina Gurianova, Margit Rowell and Deborah Wye.

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0870700073

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9780870700071

Ed Ruscha, Photographer

By: Margit Rowell,Whitney Museum of American Art

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Ed Ruscha, Photographer

By: Margit Rowell,Whitney Museum of American Art

Although known for his paintings and drawings, California artist Ed Ruscha has also attracted critical attention for his photography. A new exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Ed Ruscha, Photographer, departs from earlier analyses to explore how the artists different disciplinespainting, drawing, printmaking, and photographyare guided and shaped by a single vision. Ruschas relationship to photography is complex and ambivalent and his work is difficult to define. He has referred to his photography as a hobby but from the outset it has drawn considerable critical interest. The small books of photographs that Ruscha produced in the sixties and seventies earned him a reputation as an underground artist among his peers, and have influenced subsequent generations of artists in Europe and North America. The photographs were snapshot size, with an amateurish quality that intrigued his contemporaries. Neither purely documentary nor solely artistic, their subject matter was stereotypical and banal, with motifs drawn from sites in Southern California or the western United States. This, combined with their serial presentation, created a mythical road-movie or photo-novel effect with Beat Generation innuendos and inspired interest among artists at a time when serial logic was prominent in Pop art and Minimalism, and later in Conceptual art. Margit Rowell is an art historian, critic and museum curator working mostly in Paris and New York. Working independently today, her earlier long-term affiliations were with the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Musée National dArt Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she organized exhibitions of classical modern and contemporary artists (among them Joan Miró, Constantin Brancusi, Sigmar Polke, and Luciano Fabro). In 2004, she organized a major exhibition of the drawings of Ed Ruscha for the Whitney Museum of American Art, which traveled to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and inspired the present study of Ed Ruschas photographs.

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183

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Steidl Dap

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3865212069

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9783865212061

Wolfgang Laib

A Retrospective

By: Klaus Ottmann,Wolfgang Laib,Margit Rowell,Harald Szeemann

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Wolfgang Laib

A Retrospective

By: Klaus Ottmann,Wolfgang Laib,Margit Rowell,Harald Szeemann

Wolfgang Laib's breathtaking and quietly beautiful artwork draws on the ritual life he leads in and with nature and its processes of becoming and forgetting. His works are composed of purely natural materials, collected and processed by the artist himself in the 70s, he created his first milk stone, and then moved on to sifting pollen into "color miracles" or piling it into "insurmountable mountains"; in the 80s, he began to incorporate rice into his pieces; and towards the end of the decade he began working in beeswax. This gorgeous retrospective of his work -- with texts by Klaus Ottman and Margit Rowell, and interview between the artist and Harold Szeeman -- offers us a key to fully appreciating his complex and transcendent body of work.

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Hatje Cantz Pub

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3775709452

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9783775709453

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips, Smoke and Mirrors

The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

By: Margit Rowell,Cornelia H. Butler,Whitney Museum of American Art

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The Drawings of Ed Ruscha

By: Margit Rowell,Cornelia H. Butler,Whitney Museum of American Art

Ed Ruscha's diverse and highly influential work of the past four decades resists easy categorization. His straightforward depiction of prosaic subjects taken from American popular culture has earned him a reputation as a Pop artist, while his interest in language and typography has aligned him with certain trends in Conceptual art. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1937 and raised in Oklahoma, Ruscha moved in 1956 to Los Angeles, where he studied fine and graphic arts at Chouinard (now CalArts). This book, published to accompany the first museum retrpprestive of Ruscha's original works on paper, highlights over two hundred drawings whose subjects range from the depiction of vernacular objects, trademarks, gas stations, and apartment buildings to renderings of words and phrases in countless stylistic variations. His unusual media, including fruit and vegetable juices, gunpowder, blood, and tobacco juice, further attest to the invention and ingenuity of this major American artist." - inside back cover.

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259

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Whitney Museum of Art

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0874271401

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9780874271409

Sigmar Polke

Works on Paper 1963-1974

By: Margit Rowell,Sigmar Polke,Michael Semff,Bice Curiger,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Sigmar Polke

Works on Paper 1963-1974

By: Margit Rowell,Sigmar Polke,Michael Semff,Bice Curiger,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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0870700820

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9780870700828

Book's by Margit Rowell

Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke

Objects of Desire

Objects of Desire

The Russian Avant-garde Book, 1910-1934

The Russian Avant-garde Book, 1910-1934

Ed Ruscha, Photographer

Ed Ruscha, Photographer

Wolfgang Laib

Wolfgang Laib

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips, Smoke and Mirrors

Cotton Puffs, Q-tips, Smoke and Mirrors

Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke

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