Research Catalog

Title

Meret Oppenheim : my exhibition / edited by Nina Zimmer, Natalie Dupêcher, Anne Umland ; with Lee Colón and Nora Lohner.

Publication

• New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2021]
• New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK / D.A.P. ; London : Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Zimmer, Nina, 1973-
• Dupêcher, Natalie
• Umland, Anne
• Kunstmuseum Bern, host institution.
• Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Description

188 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

Over the course of her protean career, Meret Oppenheim produced witty, unconventional bodies of work that defy neat categorizations of medium, style and subject matter. "Nobody will give you freedom," she stated in 1975, "you have to take it." Her freewheeling, subversively humorous approach modeled a dynamic artistic practice in constant flux, yet held together by the singularity and force of her creative vision. Published in conjunction with the first ever major transatlantic Meret Oppenheim retrospective, and the first in the United States in over 25 years, this publication surveys work from the radically open Swiss artist's precocious debut in 1930s Paris, the period during which her notorious fur-lined Object in MoMA's collection was made, through her post-World War II artistic development, which included engagements with international Pop, Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual art, and up to her death in 1985. Essays by curators from the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Modern Art critically examine the artist's wide-ranging, wildly imaginative body of work, and her active role in shaping the narrative of her life and art, providing the context for her creative production pre- and post-World War II.

Uniform Title

Meret Oppenheim : mon exposition.

Subject

• Oppenheim, Meret, 1913-1985 > Exhibitions
• Oppenheim, Meret, 1913-1985
• 1900-1999
• Surrealism > 20th century > Exhibitions
• ART > General
• Surrealism

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (22.10.2021-13.02.2022) / The Menil Collection, Houston, USA (25.03-18.09.2022) / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (30.10.2022-04.03.2023).
• "A German-language edition of this book has been published in collaboration with Hirmer Publishers, Munich, under the title Meret Oppenheim: Mon exposition."--Page 187.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Directors' foreword -- Acknowledgements -- "Finally! Freedom!": The work of Meret Oppenheim, 1932-1954 -- Meret Oppenheim as a contemporary artist: five close-ups, 1966-1982 -- The art of retrospection Meret Oppenheim's "Imaginary exhibition" drawings, 1983 -- Plates M.O.: My exhibition.

Call Number

JQF 22-239

ISBN

• 9781633451292
• 1633451291

LCCN

2021935940

OCLC

1263760415

Title

Meret Oppenheim : my exhibition / edited by Nina Zimmer, Natalie Dupêcher, Anne Umland ; with Lee Colón and Nora Lohner.

Publisher

New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2021]

Distributor

New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK / D.A.P. ; London : Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Zimmer, Nina, 1973- editor.

Dupêcher, Natalie, editor.

Umland, Anne, editor.

Kunstmuseum Bern, host institution.

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.), host institution.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Added Title

German edition's title: Meret Oppenheim : mon exposition.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-239