Oliver Herring: Sleepless Nights

Best known for his sculptures made of knitted mylar, wood, plastic and other unlikely materials, artist Oliver Herring has recently been experimenting with video. This catalogue documents an exhibition of Herring’s whimsical video and unique photographic and sculptural work. His stop-motion films become lively “moving paintings” that draw on art historical precedents to engaging, humorous and fanciful effect. In addition to installation views, the book, which was designed by herring, features color film stills, the artist’s hand-written notes, and an interview with curator Kristin Chambers.

VIDEO/SCULPTURE
2001, 9 x 12 inches, 79 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 1880353229
code: mocl oliv G-8
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Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World

Comfort accompanies an exhibition of work by eight of today's most engaging international artists: Franz Ackermann, Peter Land, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Gregor Schneider and Andrea Zittel. Through a variety of media and styles ranging from painting, photography and video to installation, furniture design and architecture, these young artists offer a range of possibilities for making sense of the often impersonal and increasingly fragmented terrain of the postmodern world. The artists documented here all concern themselves with the difficult project of cognitive mapping—the individual and social attempt to face up to an increasingly complex and seemingly unknowable reality. In addition to a critical essay by architecture historian Michael Sorkin—addressing the ever-changing physicality of the contemporary world and its impact on the human psyche—Comfort also features responses by each artist to the question of what the concept of comfort means to them.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2001, 6 x 9.5 inches, 80 pp, b&w and color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 9781880353189
code: mocl vir G-8

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Petah Coyne

Coyne belongs to a generation of sculptors—many of them women—who came of age in the late 1980s and forever changed the muscular practice of sculpture with their new interest in nature and a penchant for painstaking craftsmanship, domestic references and psychological metaphor. No longer did the corporate, fabricated geometry of minimal art dominate the medium. Coyne and her peers took flamboyant risks. Her work first came to attention in 1987, when she transformed a white gallery into an enchanted forest of forms made of (literally) carloads of roots and branches—and hay that the New York Fire Department insisted she remove. She has since used a wild range of materials: wood, hay, soil, tar, chicken wire, black sand, white powder, silk flowers, wax, taxidermy, ribbons, and hair. Imagine sculptures over ten feet tall, suspended from the ceiling and dripping with a layer of wax as if frozen in time. Coyne’s references are historical and personal. Her sculpture is influenced by her careful study of art history—such as Dutch still lifes and baroque sculpture—as well as her observant religious upbringing. This catalogue includes an informative essay by curator David S. Rubin.

SCULPTURE
1992, 8 x 11 inches, 36 pp, b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 1880353024
code: mocl coy G-8

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Ellen Brooks: Nature as Artifice

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Throughout the twenty years that Ellen Brooks has been a practicing artist, she has been questioning the role of photography itself. Distrustful of its authority, she has embarked on a series of projects through which she challenges conventional modes of “reading” a photograph by offering new, viable alternatives in the forms of photo-sculptures and installations. The superficiality of nature (as we now know it) provides the impetus for Brooks’s recent photographic constructions. Her methodology involves photographing, re-photographing, and painting over found images of nature from books and magazines through a screen. Taking us further and further from the original, Brooks reveals slices of manufactured nature that are visually enticing, but which, through their remoteness from their source, beg us to question the degree to which we have become desensitized or ambivalent towards pure communion with the great outdoors. The featured works, most reproduced in color, include an installation of over-sized nudes, still lifes and landscapes. The catalogue also includes an informative essay by curator David S. Rubin.

PHOTOGRAPHY
1993, 8.5 x 11 inches, 32 pp. color illus.
Softcover, ISBN 1880353032
code: mocl brk G-8

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Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object
A Survey History of Performance Art in the USA Since 1950

This catalogue—published in conjunction with the first exhibition survey of the history of performance art in the United States—examines various forms of performance and raises critical questions about the interrelationship between performance art and all other art forms. Performance strategies and issues of theatricality have infiltrated almost every avenue of late-twentieth century art. Elements of performance art can be found in the self-conscious, ironic persona adopted by an artist as influential as Andy Warhol, or the private, quasi-ritualistic discourses of Joseph Beuys, to name but two examples. In this volume, the historical trajectory of performance art is traced through a long list of artists, including Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, John Cage, Coco Fusco, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, William Pope.L, Carolee Schneemann, Jack Smith, and Hannah Wilke. Black and white plates and documentary photographs are accompanied by comprehensive essays and a timeline.

PERFORMANCE ART
1994, 7 x 9 inches, 280 pp, b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 1880353067
code: mocl perf G-8

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Maurizio Pellegrin: The Water Dream

Maurizio Pellegrin’s installation, The Water Dream, was created specifically for the museum, an appropriate circumstance for an artist who has made his mark through commanding installations that coax new associations from architecturally specific environments. The poetic encounter of objects in his works frees them from specific time and place to form an internal logic and rhythm. In The Water Dream, Venice’s vivid locale is recalled through mnemonic associations with color and imagery. Venice itself, a culture born at water’s edge in defiance of nature’s forces, also becomes a metaphor for the archetypal aspects of memory, spirit, reason and aspiration. Pellegrin’s collective body of work suggests a peripatetic soul restlessly seeking to harmonize the disparate geographies, cultures and histories that inform our contemporary world.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2000, 6.5 x 8.5 inches, 53 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 1880353164
code: mocl wat G-8

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Carmen Ruiz-Davila: Everywhere and Here

This exhibition catalogue features a new body of work from Barcelona-born artist Carmen Ruiz-Davila, including giant castanets, a spoon-shaped hot tub and multiple dog igloos. The artist’s compelling installations are a theatrical feast of materials and media, utilizing sound, music, video, fog, light, and glass. Mixing spectacle with humor and verbal/visual puns, her work unravels complex issues of sex, consumerism and the media. The catalogue contains essays by curator Frank G. Spicer III and artist and scholar Buzz Spector.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2004, 8.5 x 9.5 inches, 26 pp, color illus.
Softcover, ISBN 1880353288
code: mocl crd G-8

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Pop Impact! From Johns to Warhol

Pop art, based on slick, new commodities, the flashy graphics of advertising and the crassness of consumerism, was considered shocking and controversial during its inception in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Today, Pop art is acknowledged as one of the most significant art movements to have emerged since World War II. This catalogue (published to coincide with an exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art) looks at Pop imagery from different perspectives, encouraging readers to examine the movement's defining characteristics -- elements such as scale and seriality -- as well as such atypical Pop approaches as the construction of a personal narrative and the innovative use of common materials. Color images of works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Wayne Thiebaud, and Andy Warhol, among many others, are accompanied by a number of essays. The brash, youthful beginnings of Pop art in the hands of these notable have worn well over time; what was first incendiary has become iconic, but still remains every bit as fresh and rewarding.

POP ART
1999, 8.5 x 11 inches, 28 pp, color illus.
Softcover, no ISBN
code: mocl pop G-8

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Drawn to Cleveland

This small catalogue (and the exhibition it accompanies) brings together and documents, for the first time, works by contemporary artists who no longer live in Cleveland, but are connected to it by birth, residency or education. It presents works by 16 living artists with diverse approaches to art making; while not identifying a Cleveland mind-set, it celebrates the idea that Cleveland has an important history of generating and nurturing visual artists. The featured artists include: Robert Crumb, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mangold, Laura Owens, and Nancy Spero.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2005, 8 x 8 inches, 32 pp, color illus.
Softcover, no ISBN
code: mocl drw G-8