Mark Lawrence Rosenthal

Mark Rosenthal

This examination of installation art demystifies and deconstructs the artistic medium most likely to induce the question, But is it Art? When we think of installation art we imagine enormous, perhaps bewildering, multi-media environments. But the world's earliest known installation projects were created millenia ago on the walls of caves in Lascaux, France. Although the genre has been evolving ever since, its primary impulse - a dialogue between artist and space - remains the same. In Understanding Installation Art, Mark Rosenthal offers an historical interpretation and concise critical analyses that will help deepen readers' appreciation of this often confusing medium. Citing examples as diverse as the Sistine Chapel, Colonial Williamsburg, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, and Vito Acconci's Seedbed as well as works by Richard Serra, Rebecca Horn, Claes Oldenburg, Jenny Holzer and Bruce Nauman, the author defines installation art as a medium with broad possibilities for expression, universal appreciation, and democratization. He creates a new taxonomy of his subject, identifying four specific forms - enchantments, impersonations, interventions, and rapprochements - and shows how installation art is steering the concept of art spaces in new and exciting directions. Most importantly he helps readers feel more comfortable with site-specific art, a genre that dates back to man's earliest artistic expression.

From Duchamp to Holzer

Understanding Installation Art

A discussion of the development of the artistic style of Juan Gris is accompanied by a selection of his cubist paintings

Juan Gris

Anselm Kiefer

A. James Speyer

Offers a profile of the German artist, shows examples of his paintings and photographs, and discusses his approach to art.

Colin B. Bailey

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Joseph J. Rishel

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. A revised and updated edition of the 1989 publication "Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," this beautiful volume presents 55 masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating text and a wealth of comparative illustrations.

The Annenberg Collection

Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-impressionism

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

John Baldessari

Jeff Koons

Chuck Close

Vija Celmins

Alex Katz

Robert Gober

Deborah Kass

Hans Haacke

Ian Alteveer

Andy Warhol Museum

Alfredo Jaar

Marla Prather

Luc Tuymans

Julian Schnabel

Rebecca Lowery

Polly Apfelbaum

Ryan Trecartin

This sumptuous volume presents the first full-scale exploration of warhol's tremendous influence across the generations of artists that have succeeded him. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. These juxtapositions not only demonstrate warhol's overt influence but also suggest how artists have either worked in parallel modes or developed his model in dynamic new directions. Featuring commentary by many of the world's leading contemporary artists, as well as a major essay by the celebrated critic Mark Rosenthal and an extensive illustrated chronology, Regarding Warhol is an out-standing publication that will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in contemporary art.

Sixty Artists, Fifty Years

Regarding Warhol

Franz Marc

This book presents an overview of the artist's career, giving particular emphasis to the symbolic and iconographic content of Marc's work. It reveals the substance underlying Marc's vision of a world populated almost solely by animals.

Mark Lawrence Rosenthal

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