Brian O'Doherty

These essays explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art, seeking to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based.

The Ideology of the Gallery Space, Expanded Edition

Inside the White Cube

Seán Kissane

Francesco Pellizzi

Morton Feldman

IMMA Staff

Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts

Vertical Thoughts

Serpil Durak

Bir garip vaka

This is the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, celebrated for his discovery of animal magnetism, or mesmerism, who takes on the case of an 18-year-old girl, blind since birth for no apparent reason. A thriller-like narrative based on an actual case.

The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P.

Museums in Crisis

G. Wayne Clough

Elizabeth Broun

Edwin C. Anderson

"The dynamic partnership of Christo and Jeanne-Claude spans more than four decades, and their enormous outdoor art installations are known the world over ... from 1972 to 1976, Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceived, planned, and created the Running Fence, an eighteen-foot-high white nylon fence that stretched more than twenty-four miles across Marin and Sonoma counties in northern California. ... It was a landmark event in contemporary art. [book title] revisits the ephemeral splendor of this remarkable outdoor installation and celebrates the Smithsonian American Art Museum's recent acquisition of the complete documentation exhibition for Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-1976, an archive of more than 350 individual items, including fifty original preparatory works by Christo, a sixty-eight-foot-long scale model, more than 240 documentary photographs by Wolfgang Volz and Gianfranco Gorgoni, and fence materials from the original installation."--Inside cover.

Remembering the Running Fence

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Deborah Lyons

Adam D. Weinberg

In his ledger books, Edward Hopper recorded paintings made and sold, accountings made and payments received, materials used and subjects considered. Juxtaposing selected ledger pages with reproductions of the respective paintings, this original Schirmer/Mosel publication documents the making of and fate of Hopper's most revered works.

Paintings & Ledger Book Drawings

Edward Hopper

Rebecca Krafft

Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming

The Arts on Television, 1976-1990

1777 kommt es am Hof von Kaiserin Maria Theresia zu einem Skandal: der Arzt Franz A. Mesmer (1734-1815) soll die blinde, hochmusikalische Tochter eines Hofsekretärs sexuell missbraucht haben. - Roman nach einem authentischen Fall.

Roman

Der merkwürdige Fall der Mademoiselle P.

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Sometimes truth is both stranger and more delightfully entertaining than fiction.

The Crossdresser's Secret

"Studio and Cube is author Brian O'Doherty's long-awaited follow-up to his seminal 1976 essays for Artforum, republished in 1999 as "Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space." That critically acclaimed volume dissected the abstract, white space of the modern art gallery, calling it "the archetypal image of twentieth-century art." In Studio and Cube O'Doherty turns his attention to the moment of art's creation, exploring the mystique of the artist's studio as the fecund space where inspiration occurs and the artwork is born." "Tracking the relationship between artist and artwork from Vermeer through late modernism, the author considers the differing work spaces of Courbet, Matisse, Rothko, Bacon, Warhol, and many others. He speculates on the implications of the work's transfer from the more anarchic and personal environment of the studio to the art gallery, concluding with a reflection on the way the "unruly energies" of the new media have transformed the classical white-cube gallery today. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of contemporary art and the environments in which it is produced. Studio and Cube is the first in the series of FORuM Project Publications produced by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University."--BOOK JACKET.

On the Relationship Between Where Art Is Made and Where Art Is Displayed

Studio and Cube

Brian O'Doherty

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