Research Catalog

Title

Maurizio Cattelan : all / Nancy Spector.

Author

Spector, Nancy

Publication

• New York : Guggenheim, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cattelan, Maurizio, 1960-
• Brinson, Katherine
• Kamin, Diana
• Smith, William S. (Editor)
• Thompson, Susan (Art historian)
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution.

Description

259 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

The Guggenheim Museum's sold-out publication 'Maurizio Cattelan: All' is returning to print. Hailed as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has created some of the most unforgettable images in contemporary art--most notoriously "The Ninth Hour" (1999), a sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Derived from popular culture, history and organized religion, Cattelan's subjects range widely, and his work, while bold and irreverent, is deadly serious in its scathing cultural critiques. The second edition of 'All' updates the catalogue that accompanied the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 2011-2012 retrospective survey of the artist. For this exhibition, Cattelan sidestepped the totalizing effect of a retrospective by devising a site-specific installation in which his entire oeuvre was suspended from the oculus of the museum's iconic rotunda. This book offers an equally unique response to the conventions of the catalogue. It is a faux-leather bound hardcover with gold stamping and thin paper that is designed to resemble an old textbook or bible. The volume details almost every work of Cattelan's from the late '80s to the present within a double-column page format, featuring full-color reproductions and accompanying entries. The revised edition describes the artist's return to art making after a five-year "retirement" with a special, ongoing project opening at the Guggenheim in May 2016. It also features a redesigned cover and installation images of the exhibition 'All'. Nancy Spector has augmented her critical overview of Cattelan--which documents not only his artistic output but also his ongoing activities as a curator, editor and publisher--with a new coda. Since its original publication, 'All' has become the Cattelan bible, and this revised edition exploring the latest chapter of the artist's influential career ensures it will remain the definitive source on his work for years to come.

Alternative Title

All

Subjects

• Cattelan, Maurizio, 1960-
• Cattelan, Maurizio, 1960- > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Originally published on the occasion of the exhibition "Maurizio Catalan : all" held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, November 4, 2011 - January 22, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-164).

Contents

Prologue -- The aesthetics of failure -- Political dimensions -- Duality and death -- From disrespect to iconoclasm -- Spectacle culture and the mediated image -- Coda-redux -- Selected bibliography -- Selected exhibition history -- Catalogue / Katherine Brinson, Diana Kamin, William S. Smith, Susan Thompson.

Call Number

(C.R.) MGO (Cattelan) 16-597

ISBN

• 9780892075317
• 0892075317

OCLC

955313338

Author

Spector, Nancy, author.

Title

Maurizio Cattelan : all / Nancy Spector.

Publisher

New York : Guggenheim, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

Revised edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-164).

Local Note

Catalogues Raisonnés Collection (NYPL, Art & Architecture).

Added Author

Cattelan, Maurizio, 1960- artist.

Brinson, Katherine, writer of supplementary textual content.

Kamin, Diana, writer of supplementary textual content.

Smith, William S. (Editor), writer of supplementary textual content.

Thompson, Susan (Art historian), writer of supplementary textual content.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

(C.R.) MGO (Cattelan) 16-597