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One day at a time : Manny Farber and termite art

Title
One day at a time : Manny Farber and termite art / curator, Helen Molesworth.
Publication
Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Farber, Manny
  • Molesworth, Helen, 1966-
  • Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), organizer, host institution
  • Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood, Calif.), host institution
Description
279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
Summary
"'Termite Art,' in Farber's definition, is art born of observing and acknowledging the transitory nature of daily life. It is also a key antidote to the widespread problem of 'White Elephant' art--big, swaggering 'masterpiece art' self-consciously striving for greatness. In this book, artists, historians, and critics dive deep into art that forgoes such ambition in order to attend to the pleasures and problems of the everyday. The book is anchored by an essay by editor Helen Molesworth and features four contemporary commissioned artists' projects that exemplify 'Termite Art,' an interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin, and a carefully selected collection of historical essays by and about Farber that functions as a reader on the subject"--
Uniform Title
One day at a time (Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.))
Subject
  • Farber, Manny > Exhibitions
  • Farber, Manny
  • Art and society > Exhibitions
  • ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows
  • ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
  • ART / Mixed Media
  • Art and society
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, from October 14, 2018 to March 11, 2019, and at the MOCA Pacific Design Center, from November 17, 2018 to February 24, 2019.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
One day at a time / Helen Molesworth -- Midday light conversation / Helen Molesworth and Jean-Pierre Gorin -- Blame the audience / Jason Simon -- Around 1962 / Gregg Bordowitz & Glenn Ligon -- Writings by and about Manny Farber -- White elephant art vs. termite art / Manny Farber -- Kitchen without kitsch / Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson -- aran kitchens, aran sweaters / Patricia Patterson -- A bug's life / Jonathan Crary -- Manny Farber and landscape / Kevin Parker -- Painter of pictures / Robert Polito.
Call Number
JQF 19-1773
ISBN
  • 9783791357669
  • 3791357662
LCCN
2018014954
OCLC
1030446193
Title
One day at a time : Manny Farber and termite art / curator, Helen Molesworth.
Publisher
Los Angeles : Museum of Contemporary Art ; New York : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
EXHIBITION CATALOG. CO-PUB W/ MOCA, LOS ANGELES. SUBSTANTIAL TEXT. INCLUDES GATEFOLDS.
Added Author
Farber, Manny. Works. Selections.
Molesworth, Helen, 1966- editor, curator.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), organizer, host institution.
Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood, Calif.), host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 19-1773
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