The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers and Artists Respond to the Time of Aids

This exhibition catalogue contains photographs that celebrate human strength, compassion, and endurance in the face of challenge and adversity. Each photograph is accompanied by an explanation that provides insight into the photographer's working and conceptual process. Noted for mature content.

*Mature Content

PHOTOGRAPHY
1990, 93 pp., illus.
Softcover, Photographers & Friends United Against AIDS, ISBN 0-8109-2455-2
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Boris Aronson: Stage Design as Visual Metaphor

Boris Aronson, the esteemed 20th Century painter, sculptor and theatrical designer, helped to establish the idea that scenic design is not an adjunct of the arts but a sophisticated art in its own right. His stage sets represent reality by way of visual metaphors and are presented here in their original forms: drawings and models which, in themselves, are complete works of arts.

THEATER
PB, 24 pp., illus.
1989, Katonah Museum of Art, ISBN 915171-14-7
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by proxy by Anna Gaskell

Anna Gaskell's by proxy is a suite of photographs given over to fairy-tale fears of a group of young women wandering in a forest. Gaskell takes cues from Hitchcock, who was rarely explicit in his suspenceful dramas, to create an intense, fright-saturated environment where uncertainty is as palpable as air.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 34 pp., illus.
2000, Aspen Art Museum, ISBN 093432428x
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The City and the Child

[1999, White Pine Press, PB, 68 pgs., ISBN 1-877727-99-7] In forty-two sonnets, Ales Debeljak weaves a hymn for his daughter, born in the middle of the most recent, devastating Balkan War. Debeljak is the author of five collections of poetry, seven books of cultural criticism and a translation of John Ashbery's selected poems into his native Slovenian.
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Unauthorized History: Robbie Conal's Portraits of Power

You'll find Robbie Conal's biting social commentary plastered on phone booths and stapled to telephone poles. This catalogue documents Conal's commitment to taking his politically-charged paintings to the streets.

PAINTING
PB, 56 pp., illus.
1990, Pasadena Art Alliance, ISBN 0-937042
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Dejavu: Reworking the Past

[2000, Katonah Museum of Art, PB, 12 pgs., illus., ISBN 0-915171-54] Little in art comes without precedence. Identifying masterpieces with traces of modernism or vice versa can be entertaining and thought-provoking, raising questions of how such combinations or transformations affect our assessment of originality in art, history and time.
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Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection

Double Trouble continues in the Museum of Contemporary Art's tradition of presenting both challenging and marginalized art. Patchett's instinct as a collector has been to acquire works that disrupt accepted notions of propriety and confront the status quo. Featuring an international roster of artists and an emphasis on "idea-based art," Dada and Fluxus, Patchett's idiosyncratic collection is a meticulous study of Late 20th century art. In English and Spanish.

CONTEMPORARY ART
HC, 2 book set w/ case, 144 pp. each, illus.
1998, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, ISBN 0-934418-52-7
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Dressing Our Wounds In Warm Clothes

In her 1980 work at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Ward's Island, Donna Henes tore donated clothing into long strips, which she tied into the trees and bushes surrounding the center. Her project honored the women who have made wartime bandages, and echoed the tradition found in many cultures of knotting torn clothing into trees as a meditative invocation of good health.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 72 pp., illus.
1982, Astro Artz, ISBN 0-937122-02-5
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Donald Sultan Prints 1979-1985

Donald Sultan is an American artist, raised on television and the sensibilities of popular culture. His paintings, a version of Pop Art mellowed by the influences of the geometric abstraction and the Abstract Expressionists, use sensual, iconic images while eschewing the crass commercialism common in the art world since the Pop movement. This volume reproduces a selection of his work from the 80s, accompanied by several critical essays.

PRINTMAKING
PB, 112 pp., illus.
1987, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ISBN 0-933856-26-1
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Someday: Robert Farber: A Retrospective

New York artist Robert Farber turned to art in his mid-30s and pursued it until his death in 1995 at the age of 47. This exhibition includes some of Farber's early, highly autobiographical works. After learning in 1989 that he was HIV positive, he made AIDS the dominant subject of his art. It is a vision by turns painful, moving, compassionate and courageous and always thoughtful.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 72 pp., illus.
1997, Brandeis University
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The Figure Abstracted

The Boca Raton Museum organized The Figure Abstracted to showcase the living practice of Florida painters. These artists have shed the ambitions of trendsetting and precedence, preferring instead to explore styles from painting's past to find what truths remain.

PAINTING
PB, 34 pp., illus.
1992, Boca Raton Museum of Art
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Jedd Garet: Nature as Artifice

The American artist Jedd Garet's paintings are derived from an almost manifesto-like purism. Of his intentions Garet says, "No words, no natural elements, nothing natural, including the figures. They were statues, not people. It's not that nature is hard to do, it's that it's against the rules. I broke down all my rules one by one."

PAINTING
HC, 167 pp., illus.
1984, Twin Palms Press, ISBN 0-942642-12-0
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Hananiah Harari: A Personal Synthesis

Hananiah Harari was an American painter and illustrator whose career spanned more than 60 years. Born in Rochester, N.Y., he studied with Fernand Leger in Paris and was one of a group of American painters who promoted the cause of international Modernism and Abstraction in the U.S. in the 1930's. This exhibition includes many of his paintings, which, while semi-abstract, always retain a firm connection to realism.

PAINTING
PB, 36 pp., illus.
1997, Montclair Art Museum, ISBN 1-936489-53-7
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The Image of Nature

[1977, The Touchstone Center, PB, 14 pgs., illus.] Working with children has been at the core of the philosophy of the Touchstone Center since its inception. The purpose of this short monograph is to introduce teachers to the potential of using the profound Oriental sensibility towards nature, as found in poetry, as a means to give children renewed confidence in their own innate sense of the natural world.
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Constance Stuart Larrabee: WWII Photo Journal

In 1944, Constance Stuart Larrabee entered the ranks of wartime photojournalists when she signed on as an official photographer and South Africa's first female war correspondent. Her World War II photographs, along with her journal entries, are a poignant time capsule, taking us back nearly fifty years to a world at war, and enmeshing us in the human drama of the liberation of Europe.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 48 pp., illus.
1989, Corcoran Gallery, ISBN 0-940979-08-X
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Made to Measure: UMS-Pastoe and Cees Braakman: 1948-1968

This exhibition features the work of Cees Braakman, one of the great, though lesser-publicized, Dutch Modernist designers. His modular furniture systems based on multiple pieces that allowed for the user to customize their own design was an ingenious solution to the spatial constraints experienced throughout Europe in the immediate post war era.

DESIGN
PB, 37 pp., illus.
2000, R20th Century Design, ISBN 0-615-11224-2
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Modern and Contemporary Work from Private Israeli Collection

This exhibition showcases Israeli artists from private collections in Israel. The tragic regional events are a backdrop for these paintings, drawings, and photographs.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 36 pp., illus.
2003, Boca Raton Museum of Art
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This is [not] a photograph

This catalogue of contemporary artists pays tribute to the history of photographic experimentation with modern explorations of the old photographic processes. The techniques are not new, but the results are still somehow raw and vibrant, and refreshingly genuine.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 36 pp., illus.
2001, Pamela Auchinscloss
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Out of Order: Mapping Social Space

How do we find our way through the 21st Century, roiled by information overload, schizophrenic mobility, and complexity of globalization? This book presents the work of eight artists whose paintings, photographs, and architectural models examine the mechanisms by which to organize, and thus perceive the overwhelming intricacies of a technological society.

CONTEMPORARY ART
Unbound w/ envelope, 40 pp., illus.
2000, Pamela Auchinscloss, ISBN 0-9642558-3-9
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Quarry: A Collection in Lieu of Memoirs

Photographs by Jerry Thompson, taken over two years, inspect the home of Lincoln Kirstein with its contents reflecting his preferences as an amateur art-historian and as a student of post-Augustinian theology.

PHOTOGRAPHY
1986, 132 pp., illus.
Hardcover, Twin Palms Press, ISBN 0-942642-27-9
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Retro-virus

This project, a printmaking effort in Cleveland, Ohio, involving the planning, writing, interviewing and documenting of the artists' works and the community's response, proved to be an enormous undertaking. Candid and honest, participants in retro-virus took the time to consider how AIDS does or doesn't fit into their daily lives.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 16 pp., illus.
1999
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Susan Rothenberg: Prints 1977-1984

Accompanying her 1984 exhibition at Barbara Krakow Gallery, this catalogue includes reproductions of Susan Rothenberg's prints from 1977 through 1984. The primal symbols in her paintings: the horse, the tuning fork figure, heads and hands in profile, appear insistently in the prints, transformed and renewed with each successive incarnation.

PRINTMAKING
PB, 20 pp., illus.
1984, Barbara Krakow Gallery
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Cameron Shaw: Selected Works 1989-1990

Known for his sculptural assemblages, Cameron Shaw's objects are all containers of sorts: boxes, tables, jars and bottles. These objects, evoking the supernatural and the spiritual, all cluster around the trope of preservation, transmuting the past into a package we call history.

CONTEMPORARY ART PB, 24 pp., b&w illus.
1990
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Sculpture in Silk: Costumes from Japan's Noh Theater

In Japan's Noh theater, the costume's fabric, color and design play a role in the characterization of age, gender, class and emotions of an actor. The beautifully embellished silk robes and carved wooden masks transform the performer's body into a mysterious sculptural form. The magic of this 600-year old performance art is celebrated in this exhibition of over 100 stunning examples of historical Edo period (1615-1868) and contemporary costumes, masks, sashes and striking theater photographs.

JAPANESE ART
PB, 88 pp., illus.
2003, Art Capital Group, ISBN 0-9742074-0-9
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Souvenirs/documents: 20 Years

Souvenirs/documents commemorates the twentieth season of New York?ïs beloved alternative space, PS 122 Gallery, which was founded in 1979 by a small core group of artists. By exhibiting ephemera, documentation, obscure objects and small artworks culled from the archives of PS 122 and participating artists, a collective portrait is drawn of the years 1979-1999. Among the artists included are Barbara Kruger, Peter Halley, Glen Ligon, Vik Muniz and Nan Goldin.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 48 pp., illus.
1999, PS 122, ISBN 0-9676122-0-9
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Larry Stanton: Painting and Drawing

The American painter Larry Stanton found his subject matter in the urban setting of Manhattan. His monumental portraits of heads and torsos of young men, friends, and artists give strong testimony to his skills as a figurative painter. Essays by David Hockney, Henry Geldzahler, Tim Dlugos, Julia Mayo, and Arthur Lambert, Jr. Some mature subject matter.

PAINTING
HC, 96 pp., illus.
1986, Twin Palms Press, ISBN 0-942642-29-5
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Strange But True: The Arizona Photographs of Allen Dutton

In 1979, Allen Dutton began a project wherein he made new prints of late 19th Century and early 20th Century photographs of Arizona, and paired these old scenes with his own rephotographed images of the same locations. The resulting visual juxtapositions between past and present yield surprising revelations about our efforts to tame the wilds of the American West.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 62 pp., illus.
2000, Corcoran Gallery, ISBN 0-88675-062-8
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Under the Tongue by Larry Zirlin

[1992, Hanging Loose Press, PB, 77 pgs., ISBN 0-914619-81-3] Larry Zirlin is a graphic designer from Newark, New Jersey, and has three other poetry collections to his name. Some of his most poignant but sad poems comprise the last section of Under the Tongue?ëseven poems dealing with the loss of love and his separation from his wife.
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Workspace Program: 5 years

This exhibition and accompanying catalogue celebrate the fifth anniversary of Dieu Donne Papermill's Workspace Program, which gives emerging artists the opportunity to produce new projects in handmade paper. The catalogue contains work by Kiki Smith, Gregory Coates, Ming Fay and others.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 28 pp., illus.
1995, Dieu Donne Papermill
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Arte en Am?©rica Latina

This book presents a survey of important works from early to mid-20th Century Latin American artists, with an emphasis on painting. Features artists, such as Joaquin Torre-Garcia and Pedro Figari, among many others. Essay in Spanish.

PAINTING
HC, 73 pp., illus.
1994, Museo de Arte de las Americas
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Francesco Clemente: Tandoori Satori and Commonplace

The paintings and watercolors by the reknowned contemporary Italian artist, Francesco Clemente, combine symbols of mysticism and folklore from Iceland, India, and Egypt. A poem by Robert Creeley and an essay by Vincent Katz accompany the images.

PAINTING
PB, 93 pp., illus.
2004, The Rose Art Museum, ISBN 0-9761593-0-9
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Crude Oil: Paintings

Petroleum is one of the defining mediums of modernity‚ a power playground that has shaped the politics of the world. This exhibition showcases the work of eleven, young internatinal artists whose work in various mediums relate to the subject of oil.

PAINTING
PB, 47 pp., illus.
2004, Elena Sorokina
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A Defining Generation: Then and Now, 1961 and 2001

The Rose Art Museum was established in 1961, with a massive acquisition of key artists of that electric generation: William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Kenneth Noland, and Alex Katz, among many others. In celebration of the museum's 40th anniversary, the Rose held an exhibition that examined the formative changes of these major artists over the last four decades and their evolution into "Modern Masters."

PAINTING
PB, 75 pp., illus.
2001, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, ISBN 0-9620545-3-4
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Tony Delap

Tony Delap has sought to express the purity of idea and form through his lifelong study of realm between Minimalist sculpture and painting. This monograph includes drawings, project models, paintings, and photographs of his momnumental public sculptures that challende our understanding of abstraction and illusion.

SCULPTURE
PB, 120 pp., illus.
2000, Orange County Museum of Art, ISBN 0-917493-31-1
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Salomon Huerta: Painting

While seeking to give expression to Latino political and social issues, Huerta defies the stereotype of "Chicano artist." His portraits explore how we perceive and assign identities to others, and what generates our instinct to define individuals in terms of race and gender.

PAINTING
PB, 38 pp., illus.
2001, Austin Museum of Art, ISBN 0-9670952-3-9
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David Klamen: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings

David Klamen infuses op-art effects with art historical images to create high-impact and engaging work. In his intersections of bar codes, puzzles, and Old-Master paintings, Klamen's work entices the viewer to decifer imagrey within these kaleidoscopic compositions.

PAINTING
PB, 80 pp., illus.
2004, Richard Gray Gallery, ISBN 0-932900-39-9
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Open Spain: Contemporary Documentary Photography in Spain

Photographs and essays capture the events, festivals, and traditions, documenting the physical transformation of the Spanish countryside since the country’s emergence to an industrialized and democratic nation.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 259 pp., illus.
1992, Museum of Contemporary Photography, ISBN 0-932026-27-3
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Out of the Ordinary

For centuries artists have incorporated the everyday into their work. This books looks at how eleven contemporary artists have embraced familiar imagery and experience to explore themes of race, death, impermanence, and evolution.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 112 pp., illus.
2000, CAMH, ISBN 0-936080-60-4
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Picturing French Style: Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion

This dazzling display of fine French art and fashion features more than 130 works from collections around the world, created by the like of Renoir, Degas, Picasso, Chanel, and Dior.

ART HISTORY

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The Further Adventures of Pinocchio: Le Ultime Adventure

A poem and accompanying photography follow the legendary wooden puppet as he longs for true human experience. Encountering adolescence with sound and fury of TV's Everwood, this Pinocchio imagines himself immersed in a sensuous life. Mature subject matter (not for children).

PHOTOGRAPHY
HC, 39 pp., illus.
2004, George & Betty Woodman, ISBN 0-923183-36-1
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Possession Obsession

Sotheby’s 1988 sale of Andy Warhol’s estate bears the distinction of the largest auction ever conducted. Aptly named, Possession Obsession, illuminates the role that collecting and the collections themselves played a role in Warhol’s life and work.

ART HISTORY
HC, 159 pp., illus.
2002, The Andy Warhol Museum, ISBN 0-09715688-0-4
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Fred Roll: A Photobiography

Stunning b&w photography illuminate Roll's understanding of the world around him. His subjects range from the inhabitants of a remote village in Papa New Guinea, travels around the world, portraits, to floral still-lifes in the style of Japane Ikebana. Not suggested for elementary or middle school students.

PHOTOGRAPHY
HC, 104 pp., b&w illus.
1996, Center for Photographic Art, ISBN 0-96303393-6-9
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Robert F. Sheehan: Color Photography 1948-1958

Color photography was only twelve-years-old when Robert Sheehan adopted it in 1948. Few non-commercial artists worked entirely in color, but this visionary artist had his own ideas about the expressive potential of this new medium.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 69 pp., illus.
1987, Davison Art Center
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Alan Shields

Through the use of elements and techniques not traditionally associated with painting, such as grids constructed of unstretched strips of canvas suspended off the wall, Alan Shields subverts expectations of the painted canvas as a flat, two-dimensional surface, thereby reinventing the medium.

PAINTING
PB, 93 pp., illus.
1999, Paula Cooper Gallery, ISBN 1-8907751-02-2
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Within This Garden: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen

The garden is a profound symbol: a center full of mystery, a philosophical space, a temple, and a marvelous image for life. Working predominantly with a pinhole camera and paper negatives, Thorne-Thomsen's images remind us of theatrical performances and provoke a sense of wonder through experimentation.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 145 pp., illus.
1993, Museum of Contemporary Photography, ISBN 0-932026-30-3
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Cora Cohen: paintings & altered x-rays, 1983-1996

Painting on the surfaces of both canvas and x-rays, Cohen conjoins the sensuality of paint with textures of the gritty, physical reality of our own mortality. Fields of dazzling color and terrains of ominous darkness are enriched by the immediacy of personal touches and the materiality of paint.

PAINTING
PB, 82 pp., illus.
2000, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, ISBN 0-9645392-1-1
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The Continuous Quest: Richard Zoellner

Richard Zoellner’s work projects a clarity of purpose and a precise vision based on the formal values of art, as he continues to redefine his concerns with spatial arrangements, texture, color, balance, variety, symmetry, and harmony in vivid oils.

PAINTING
PB, 54 pp., illus.
2002, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, ISBN 0-9645292-2-X
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The New Frontier: Art and Television

The term "The New Frontier" was coined by JFK Jr.'s advisors. During this time, the new medium of television transmitted live imagery with visual and cultural authority that the world had never before witnessed. Along with this new source of popular media for the masses, artists also began to appropriate the imagery of television into the resulting Pop-Art Movement.

Modern Art
PB, 100 pp. illus.,
2000, Austin Musem of Art, ISBN o-9670952-2-0
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