Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg

This exhibition catalogue reveals the aesthetic dialogue and shared visual vocabulary evident in the work of Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. Set in motion by Duchamp, this dialogue was shaped through time by the artists—sometimes through direct contact and intense collaboration, and always through deep artistic and intellectual engagement. The dialogue is also intertwined in the art-making philosophies and strategies of Dada, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and pop art. The catalogue traces visual and conceptual motifs common to the artists, including the use of specific forms, such as boxes; the manipulation of motifs; the integration of language into art; the fascination with simple machines; the incorporation of collage, assemblage, and found objects; and the appropriation of icons. The borrowing of iconic images is perhaps best exemplified by Duchamp in his subversive defacement of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Following Duchamp’s lead, Cornell, Johns, and Rauschenberg also incorporate icons—and the Mona Lisa especially—into their artwork with their own acts of appropriation, defacement, and homage. In addition to color illustrations, the book contains a comparative chronology, an exhibition checklist, and a full bibliography.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2005, 8 x 10 inches, 112 pp., color illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0300109261
code: dma dcjr F-3
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Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art

This catalogue showcases the outstanding collections of modern and contemporary art that have been recently promised to the Dallas Museum of Art in an unprecedented collective gift, It includes interviews with the donors and an overview of the project by curator Maria de Corral, along with five scholarly essays examining the works of art in the context of Abstract Expressionism, minimalism, post-minimalism, conceptual art, Italian art (including Arte Povera), German art, and installation and media works. One of the most ambitious ever assembled at the Dallas Museum of Art, the exhibition and this companion catalogue features a diverse range of sculpture, painting, photographs, installation and video and electronic media, such as abstract expressionist paintings by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko; masterpieces of the Italian Arte Povera movement by Mario Merz and Giulio Paolini; and minimalist sculpture and paintings by Donald Judd and Ellsworth Kelly.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2007, 9 x 12 inches, 328 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 9780300122916
code: dma ffcc F-1

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Brice Marden, Work of the 1990s: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints

After 20 years of exploring the possibilities of large, flat panels of color, Brice Marden felt so exhausted as an artist that he considered giving up painting altogether. His interest was rekindled by a superb exhibition of Asian calligraphy. Completely changing his method of working, he started to explore the enormous complexity of line as a method of artistic expression. Marden drew on a close study of Chinese calligraphy and a deep interest in Greek mythology to create a vibrant and spontaneous way of working that fuses a subtle command of color with a striking pattern of looping lines, freely painted. This catalogue pairs a clear explanatory text with full color reproductions of 43 of his works, forming an excellent introduction to the best works of one of the major American painters of the late 20th century.

PAINTING
1998, 9 x 12, 79 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 0936227257
code: dma bm90 L-5

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Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century

Henry Moore (1898–1986) is arguably one of the most famous and beloved sculptors of the 20th century. This handsome and comprehensive catalogue seeks to reassess Moore’s crucial contribution to art in the last century. Looking at his early engagements with Primitivism, his 1930’s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism, and his postwar interest in large-scale public sculpture, the catalogue reveals how the sculptor helped to define some of the most significant aspects of modernism. The numerous essays also contextualize within the polemics of early modernism Moore’s emphasis on direct carving instead of modeling and the necessary balance between abstraction and what he called the “psychological human element.” In addition to color images of his major figurative works in stone, marble, wood and bronze, the book includes color drawings and studies.

SCULPTURE
2001, 10 x 12 inches. 323 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 0300089929
code: dma hm L-4

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Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas

This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, features eleven young, Texas-based artists working in a variety of media. Color images of each artist’s work are presented alongside an artistic statement and biography. Introductory essays by curators Suzanne Weaver and Lane Relyea discuss the selection process for the exhibition—touching in particular on the slipperiness of the term ‘emerging’—and provide a detailed account of each of the eleven artists’ themes and influences. The book also contains a series of essays entitled Emerging Criticism in Texas, with contributions by three young art critics based in the state.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2003, 12 x 8.5 inches, 120 pp, color illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-936227-26-5
code: dma cfem L-4

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Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat

Vincent Van Gogh viewed wheat as a central metaphor of the cycle of life and the creative process. As such, it was a theme that he consistently explored throughout his career. This book explores the artist's personal and visual fascination with wheat, analyzing the significance that the motif--and by extension, the peasant at work in nature--played within the social and cultural framework of nineteenth-century France and in the works of other artists of the time. Focusing on his powerful Sheaves of Wheat from the Dallas Museum of Art’s Wendy and Emery Reves Collection --one of thirteen canvases completed in the last month of his life--this beautiful book features illustrations of Van Gogh's works as well as personal correspondence and letters. Related images by such prominent contemporary artists as Emile Bernard, Jules Breton, Charles F. Daubigny, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Francois Millet, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro are also included, along with biographies of each of the artists. Together these works reveal the larger social and political trends of nineteenth-century France. Several informative essays support the extensive color imagery.

PAINTING
2006, 9 x 11, 120 pp, color illus
Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-300-11772-1
code: dma VanG F-3

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On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages

This handsome catalogue, produced in conjunction with the museum’s recent exhibition, presents works selected by On Kawara from throughout his illustrious career, including examples of his well-known Date Paintings. In addition to date pieces made at the time of the 1969 moon landings, the catalogue contains plates of the artist’s I Went, I Met, and I Read series, which record a day’s journey in pen-marked maps (of the city he happened to be in that day), a list of the people he met, and a collage of the day’s newspaper, respectively; The 100 Years Calendar, which curator Charles Wylie describes in his catalogue essay as “a visually busy, nearly flickering sheet of large paper containing a calendric system of the artist’s own devising”; and volumes from his One Million Years project, a monumental collection of leather-bound volumes whose pages list the years 998,031 B.C. through 1,001,995 A.D. Three informative essays accompany full-color images of works from the exhibition.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2008, 8.5 x 11.5, 192 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-300-13734-7
code: dma kaw F-1

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Phil Collins: The World Won’t Listen

Phil Collins, who was shortlisted for Tate Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize in 2006, creates videos and photographs of people in places marked by political, social, and cultural turmoil and change (such as Belgrade, San Sebastian, Baghdad, and Ramallah), combining art, music, and popular culture to create compelling real situations. This catalogue documents the Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition of the world won’t listen, the artist’s three-part video installation. For the piece, Collins spent extended periods of time in three different countries—Bogotá, Columbia; Istanbul, Turkey; and Jakarta, Indonesia—researching, lecturing, building sets, and filming. In each city, he went on radio and television, visited dance clubs, and posted flyers to invite participants to come and perform karaoke versions of tracks from the 1987 album The World Won’t Listen by the influential British indie band The Smiths. The artist describes “the sweet agony of self-fulfillment and self-limitation” captured by these karaoke performances. Photographs and images taken from the video footage are supported by several essays, including contributions by British music critic Simon Reynolds, on the seductive power of The Smiths and Morrissey; by Bruce Hainley, writer and contributing editor of Artforum, on the political implications of the piece; and by exhibition curator Suzanne Weaver in conversation with the artist on his background, motivating ideas, and artistic process.

CONTEMPORARY ART/VIDEO 2007, 8 x 11 inches, 128 pp, color images
code: dma phil F-3

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Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art

This catalogue features modern and contemporary Mexican art from the Dallas Museum of Art’s Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. The collection includes works dating from the 1910s to the 1990s by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Francis Alys, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siquieros and Sykvia Gruner among many others. Extensive color imagery is supported by a lengthy essay tracing the collection’s fifty-year development, as well as a biography of each of the artists. Representing a broad range of subjects, the book’s selection of more than 75 works is unified by its many portraits—including several portraits of the collectors themselves. Recurring themes allow for illuminating comparisons between artists and eras, providing insight into the artistic life of a nation. All texts are provided in both English and Spanish.

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN ART
2000, 9 x 12 inches, 199 pp, color illus
Softcover, ISBN 0-934418-55-1
code: dma mex F-3