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OUT OF STOCK Andy Warhol: The Last Decade In the decade before his death in 1987, Andy Warhol continued to produce mesmerizing work at an astounding pace. Influenced by the most prominent artists of the 1980s—including Basquiat, Haring, Schnabel, and Clemente—Warhol experimented with a combination of painting and screen-printing, developing a vocabulary of images that traversed genres. The result is a remarkable output, collected in this companion to the touring exhibition organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum. The catalogue delves into the range of works Warhol was creating during his last years, including abstract paintings, collaborations, and his final self-portraits. Essays by Keith Hartley and Gregory Volk and contributions by Bruno Bischofberger, Keith Haring, and Julian Schnabel round out this compelling look at an artist whose most fecund work may have been produced in his last years. CONTEMPORARY ART 2009, 11 x 10 inches, 223 pp, color illus. Softcover, ISBN: 978-0-87273-163-9 code: bma war I-6

OUT OF STOCK Laurie Simmons: The Music of Regret Laurie Simmons (b. 1949) stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as “living objects,” animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult’s memories, longings, and regrets. Simmons’s work blends psychological, political, and conceptual approaches to art-making—transforming photography’s propensity to objectify people (and especially women) into a sustained critique of the medium. Mining childhood memories and media constructions of gender roles, her photographs are charged with an eerie, dreamlike quality. On first glance, her works often appear whimsical, but there is a disquieting aspect to Simmons’s child’s play, as her characters struggle over identity in an environment in which the value placed on consumption, designer objects, and domestic space is inflated to absurd proportions. This extensive catalogue, which was published in conjunction with the museum’s 20-year retrospective of Simmons’s work, features color reproductions of her photographs and essays by Jan Howard, Susanna Moore, Garrett Kalleberg, Jimmy DeSana, and John Waters. CONTEMPORARY ART/PHOTOGRAPHY 1997, 11 x 9.75 inches, 120 pp, color illus. Softcover, ISBN: 0-912298-69-3 code: bma sim I-3

OUT OF STOCK Scott Burton This catalogue was published in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition of American sculptor Scott Burton’s work. His sculpture balances stubbornly, yet elegantly, between art and furniture, following a tradition of utilitarian modernism that started with the Russian Constructivists and was later taken up by the De Stijl and Bauhaus artists. Burton’s greatest achievement, however, may lie in his foray into public art, which evolved in accordance with his belief that art should ''place itself not in front of, but around, behind, underneath (literally) the audience.'' The book includes color photographs of public works, marble and bronze sculptures, and performances, as well as an essay by Brenda Richardson. CONTEMPORARY ART/SCULPTURE 1986, 10 x 9 inches, 92 pp, color illus. Softcover, ISBN: 0-912298-61-8 code: bma bur I-5

OUT OF STOCK Roni Horn: Island Since 1975, New York-based artist Roni Horn has made frequent solitary journeys to Iceland. These experiences have profoundly influenced her work, be it drawing, installation, photography, or books. This exhibition catalogue brings together photographs and drawings from the artist’s travels that reflect her interest in Iceland’s geography (including its volcanic topography, geothermic waters, sheep pastures, and coastline), as well as humans’ relationship with it. Text by, and an interview with, the artist support the color images. CONTEMPORARY ART 1994, 9.5 x 8 inches, 32 pp, color illus. Softcover, ISBN: 0-912298-67-7 code: bma horm I-6

 

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