Research Catalog

Title

Robert Storr : writings on art 1980-2005 / edited and with an introduction by Francesca Pietropaolo.

Author

Storr, Robert

Publication

• [London] : Heni Publishing, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Pietropaolo, Francesca

Description

671 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

"Following on from the much-lauded Interviews on Art, HENI presents the first in a two-volume publication featuring the collected writings on art by Robert Storr, one of the world's leading art critics and curators. Featuring the best of Storr's criticism, reviews, essays and other writings from the 1980s to the mid 2000s, the book includes his essays on artists such as Eva Hesse, Martin Puryear, Eric Fischl, Arshile Gorky, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Bruce Nauman and Adrian Piper. Written with his signature intellect and wit, his writings range from essays on gender in the work of Louise Bourgeois to a reviews of Art Spiegelman's comic strip memoir Maus"--Provided by publisher.

Alternative Title

Writings on art 1980-2005

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Art, Modern > 21st century
• Art, Modern

Genre/Form

Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-648) and index.

Contents

The accidental critic / Robert Storr -- When sparks fly: a wordsmith in his own right / Francesca Pietropaolo -- 1980s. Anne and Patrick Poirier; Aldo Roddi -- Louise Bourgeois: gender & possession -- Roy DeCarava at the Studio Museum in Harlem -- Pearlstein today: upping the ante -- Rackstraw Downes: painter as geographer -- Desperate pleasures [Eric Fischl] -- Peter Saul: radical distaste -- Frank Stella's Norton Lectures. A response -- "Tilted arc": enemy of the people? [Richard Serra] -- The theoretical come-on [Yvonne Rainer] -- Added dimension [Elizabeth Murray] -- Other 'others' -- The scholar-artist: Meyer Schapiro -- Nancy Spero: central issues - peripheral visions -- Riddled sphinxes [Leon Golub] -- Master Bill [Willem de Kooning] -- Louise Lawler: unpacking the white cube -- 1990s. Fertile mirrors [Arshile Gorky] -- All in a day's work [Susan Rothenberg] -- No joy in Mudville: Greenberg's modernism then and now -- Two hundred beats per min. [Jean-Michel Basquiat] -- Art, censorship, and the First Amendment. This is not a test -- DISLOCATIONS -- Martin Puryear: the hand's proportion -- Making Maus [Art Spiegelman] -- The architect of emptiness [Ilya Kabakov] -- Do the wrong thing: Eva Hesse and the abstract grotesque -- Beyond words [Bruce Nauman] -- The stop-action cosmos [Vija Celmins] -- Foreword [Adrian Piper] -- The struggle between forgetting and remembering [Rachel Whiteread] -- The gentle art of pleasing oneself [Rudy Burckhardt] -- Masquerades and operas [Jörg Immendorff] -- Beastly beauties [Jim Nutt] -- No stage, no actors, but it's theater (and art) -- A piece of the action [Jackson Pollock] -- 2000s. The devil's handyman [H.C. Westermann] -- Slow burn [Carroll Dunham] -- The Beckmann Effect -- Sunday in the park with Franz [Franz West] -- Chéri Samba, painter of modern life -- Disparities and deformations: our grotesque -- What's not to like? [Mike Kelley] -- He who gets slapped [Martin Kippenberger] -- Touching down lightly [Richard Tuttle] -- Bibliography: Robert Storr.

Call Number

JQE 21-96

ISBN

• 9781912122288
• 1912122286

OCLC

1222775202

Author

Storr, Robert, author.

Title

Robert Storr : writings on art 1980-2005 / edited and with an introduction by Francesca Pietropaolo.

Publisher

[London] : Heni Publishing, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-648) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Pietropaolo, Francesca, editor, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

JQE 21-96