Research Catalog

Title

Jack Pierson / [editor, Rachael Thomas ; assistant editor, Maeve Butler ; assistant editor, Lucia Pietroiusti].

Author

Pierson, Jack, 1960-

Publication

Dublin : Irish Museum of Modern Art/Áras Nua-Ealaíne Na H-Éireann ; Milan : In association with Charta, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Pietroiusti, Lucia.
• Thomas, Rachael.
• Butler, Maeve.
• Irish Museum of Modern Art (Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland)

Description

436 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.

Summary

"Jack Pierson is one of the most influential American artists working today. Pierson works in a variety of media such as painting, drawing, photography, books, installation and film; as well as wall and floor sculptures assembled from found letters. Drawn to stardom, melodrama, loneliness and emotional narrative as subjects, Pierson infuses his work with visual and literal references to lost love, sexual longing, faded glamour, evanescence and beauty. Pierson is also concerned with the formal qualities of presentation and the number of aesthetic decisions required to achieve a balance between the narrative content of the artwork and its physical manifestation." "This publication on Pierson's work since 1992 is an artist's book that contains an amalgamation of eight previous publications, all of which are out of print. These books were designed by the artist and are reproduced here in their original size and chronological order."--Jacket

Subject

• Pierson, Jack, 1960-
• Pierson, Jack, 1960- > Exhibitions
• Art, American > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Statement of responsibility from colophon.
• "Published on the occasion of Jack Pierson, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 12 March-18 May 2008"--Colophon.
• "An amalgamation of eight previous publications, all of which are out of print. These books were designed by the artist and are reproduced here in their original size and chronological order"--P. 436.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Angel youth, 1992 -- Jack Pierson, 1992 -- Caught in the rain, 1994 -- Jack Pierson, 1996 -- Jack Pierson, 1997 -- Sing a song of sixpence, 1997 -- Unidentified youth, 2000 -- Untitled, 2003 -- Foreword / Enrique Juncosa -- Books / Jack Pierson -- Introduction / Richard D. Marshall -- A vignette contrived of various objects depicting the artist Jack Pierson / Wayne Koestenbaum -- ...from a series of conversations with Jack Pierson / Rachael Thomas.

ISBN

• 9788881586776
• 8881586770

OCLC

216938951

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library