Research Catalog

Title

Nicole Eisenman : the way we weren't / Ian Berry.

Author

Berry, Ian, 1971-

Publication

Saratoga Springs, N.Y. : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eisenman, Nicole, 1965-
• Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

Description

71 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Nicole Eisenman’s psychologically revealing work includes installations, drawings, animations, and, increasingly, paintings. Eisenman’s unique brand of humor permeates her work. Simultaneously playful, biting, and raunchy, she challenges cultural and social norms associated with gender and sexuality, popular culture, and the current art scene. Nicole Eisenman: The Way We Weren’t features a new series of paintings that extend her perceptive social critique. Surly and melancholic figures crowd her scenes of street corners and beer gardens, drowning their shared discontent in alcohol and reveling in the anonymity of the crowd. While Eisenman’s disenchanted figures feel unmistakably contemporary, the scenes also hearken back to earlier times, recalling Impressionist and German Expressionist paintings that share a similar fascination with human interaction and isolation."

Series Statement

Opener ; 17

Uniform Title

Opener 17.

Alternative Title

Way we weren't

Subject

Eisenman, Nicole, 1965- > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Sept. 26, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780982148600
• 0982148607

LCCN

^^2010923189

OCLC

• 650826046
• SCSB-10376539

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library