Paul Schimmel

Painting the Void

Robert Rauschenberg, Combines. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 20 December 2005 - 2 April 2006

Takashi Murakami

Dick Hebdige

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

In conjunction with the first major retrospective of his work, "Murakami" traces artist Takashi Murakamis global impact socially, culturally, and historically. Representing output from original works of art to mass-produced multiples, the volume also considers the implications of his working methods within the tradition of the Western avant-garde.Rizzoli

© Murakami

Yilmaz Dziewior

Public Offerings presents breakthrough works by some of the most important and challenging artists to emerge in the past decade, exploring the conditions, consequences and contexts that surround their first 'public offerings'. It provides a critical overview of art at the beginning of the 21st century. Youth is a highly relevant factor in the development of these works, just as it has been in the advancement of contemporary music and literature, and even the sciences. Young artists are now among today's most critically discussed and visible practitioners. All the artists featured in this collection graduated from prestigious colleges of art in Britain, the United States, Germany and Japan, and their success has raised the profile of art schools and the issue of their increasingly important role. While confident in their conception, execution and theatrical vigour, the works included here also represent a fragile moment in the artists' development. The art clearly demonstrates the impact of the particular art school and regional identity. Along with the complex network of travelling critics and curators, international exhibitions, regional and global art journals, and ambitious gall

Public Offerings

Hubert Klocker

Guy Brett

Kristine Stiles

Shin'ichirō Osaki

Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979

Out of Actions

Bonnie Clearwater

Günther Förg

Exhibition tour: January 20-April 2, 1989, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif.; April 30-June 24, 1989, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif., July 14-September 3, 1989, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisc. Bibliography: p. 147-153.

Painting, Sculpture, Installation

This comprehensive monograph of Ken Price s sculptures and works on paper pays tribute to a highly influential career and personality. Part of a generation of artists that emerged in postwar Los Angeles, Ken Price transformed the art of ceramic sculpture. In his work, Price found inspiration in a diverse array of sources, including the Bauhaus school, traditional Southwestern pottery, and the counter-culture styles of the 1960s. Working with glazes and coloring his pieces with multiple layers of acrylic paint and making numerous intimate, smaller pieces as opposed to grand vessels, Price placed his own original stamp on the medium. This generously illustrated book also delves into Price s works on paper, which echo his sculptures in their brilliant colors and fantastical lines. This book fully integrates Price s sculptural work and his drawings. A scholarly essay explores Price s practice across different media as related to the tradition of ceramics and history of artistic modernism. Featuring more than 200 illustrations, the book offers readers in-depth access to Price s creative process. Ken Price emerges here as a multifaceted, cheerful iconoclast, both erudite and exuberant in his work and life."

A Survey of Sculpture and Drawings

Ken Price

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Oct. 3, 2011-Feb. 13, 2012.

California Art, 1974-1981

Under the Big Black Sun

Norman M. Klein

Lane Relyea

L.A. Art in the 1990s

Helter Skelter

Sigmund Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis explores links between Freud’s development of his thinking and theory and his personal emotional journey. It follows his early career as a medical student, researcher and neurologist, and then as a psychotherapist, to focus on the critical period 1895-1900. During these years Freud submitted himself to the process that has become known as his ‘self-analysis’, and developed the core of his psychoanalytic theory. Drawing on Freud’s letters to his friend and confidant Wilhelm Fliess, and on selected psychoanalytic writings in particular his ‘dream of Irma’s injection’, Paul Schimmel formulates psychoanalytic dimensions to the biographical ‘facts’ of Freud’s life. In 1900 Freud wrote that he was ‘not a thinker’ but ‘a conquistador’. In reality he was both, and was engaged in a lifelong emotional struggle to bring these contradictory sides of his personality into relationship. His psychoanalytic discoveries are conceptualized in the context of his need to achieve integration within his psyche, and in particular to forge a more creative collaboration between ‘conquistador’ and ‘thinker’. Sigmund Freud’s discovery of psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, academics and teachers of psychoanalysis, and to all serious students of the mind.

Conquistador and thinker

Sigmund Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis

Paul Schimmel

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