FA - Art in America Magazine & American Art Review Magazine - Lot of 4 issues
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All magazines are in very good to fine condition. Covers, bindings and
all pages
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Art in America - February 1993
Cover: John Wesley, Jack Frost, 1990, acrylic on canvas, 31 by 54
inches.
Courtesy fiction/nonfiction. See article on John Wesley beginning on
page 76.
* Jimmie Durham: Postmodernist "Savage" by Lucy R. Lippard
Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham weaves together history, myth and
barbed
humor in his objects in performance.
* Vital Parts by Robert Taplin
A major retrospective at Yale examined the development of Eva
Besse's
influential abstract sculptures of the 60's.
* Troubled Toons by Ken Johnson
Appropriating mundane mass-media imagery, John Wesley creates a
secret,
dream-like world in his cartoon paintings.
* Is It Art? Orlan and the Transgressive Act by Barbara Rose
* The French performance artist Orlan is transforming her body into
an
art-historical pastiche - via plastic surgery.
* Sculpture as Refuge by David Levi Strauss
Ursula von Rydingsvard brings formal rigor and unexpected
emotional
resonance to her massive hewn-cedar works.
* Seeing the Light by John R. Clarke
Peter Erskine's light-and-sound installation in Rome's Markets of
Trajan
focused attention on today's environmental perils.
* Earthy Objects by Francis Colpitt
Ken Price's ceramic sculptures combines startling biomorphic
shapes with
brilliant lacquered colors.
* Letters
* Front Page
* Review of Books
Brooks Adams on Brian D'Amato's Beauty: A Novel; Jayne Merkel on
Michael
Sorkin's Exquisite Corpse; Writing on Buildings; Jill Johnston on Suzi
Gablik's
The Reenchantment of Art.
* Report from Boston
Splice of Life by Stuart Ewen
* Report from Williamstown
* The Way They Were by Ken Johnson
* Review of Exhibitions
New York, Philadelphia, Columbus, Chicago, Los Angeles, Santa
Monica,
Tacoma, Paris, Mexico City, Amagaski
* Artworld
* Plus lots of interesting advertisements!
Art in America - March, 1993
Cover: Barbara Ess, Untitled (detail), 1989, monochrome color
photograph, 50 by
84 1/2 inches. Courtesy Curt Marcus Gallery. See article on New York
photographers beginning on page 66.
* Melvin Edwards: Lynch Fragments by Brooke Kamin Rapaport
The welded-steel reliefs in this series symbolize moments of
oppression and
resistance in African-American history
* Complex Vision by P.C. Smith
Four New York photographers create unorthodox images that suggest
the
elusiveness of visual experience.
* Picasso's Bull(s): Art History in Reverse by Irving Lavin
In a celebrated series of lithographs, Picasso's complex image of
a bull
becomes progressively simplified, "artless" and etheral.
* Abstract Compounds by Michael Duncan
Four five decades, West Coast abstractionist Emerson Woelffer has
explored
the play of formal structure and expressive gesture.
* A Message from Luciano Fabro by Gay Morris
A retrospective at the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art traced
the career
of the Arte Povera and performance artist.
* Beckman on Beckman by Paul Brach
The highly charged self-portraits of Max Beckmann were reexamined
in a
recent exhibition.
* Letters
* Front Page
* Review of Books
Gary Indiana on Larry River's What Did I Do? The Unauthorized
Biography
* Report from Vienna
L.A.: The Dark Side by Michael Duncan
* Review of Exhibitions
New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Seattle,
Barcelona,
Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp
* Artworld
* Plus lots of interesting advertisements!
Art in America - April, 1993
* Cover: Judith Barry, Model for Stage and Screen, 1987, mixed
medium
construction with fog machine, dimesons variable. Private collection,
Belgium.
Courtesy Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. See article beginning on page 116.
* Agnes Martin: All the Way in Heaven by Holland Cotter
A retrospective at the Whitney offered insights into the artist's
spare,
carefully mediated paintings.
* Rooted by Janet Koplos
British wood sculptor David Nash develops elaborate outdoor
plantings of
trees and flowers as well as indoor representations of them.
* Dispatches from the Jungle of Art by Marcia C. Vetrocq
In which the author recounts the improbable saga of how G.A.
Cavellini, an
Italian collector, metamorphosed into a conceptual artist.
* LOVE and Rubbish by Ken Johnson
A Los Angeles exhibition focused on the sculptures of George
Herns, a
pioneer of California assemblage.
* Judith Barry: The Body in Space by Margaret Morse
Barry's disorienting high-tech installations explore the ways we
locate
ourselves in time and place.
* Shea's Anti-Monuments by Brooks Adams
Judith Shea's enigmatic carved and cast sculptures call into
question the
tradition of heroic figuration.
* Letters
* Front Page
* Review of Books
Mitchell Stevens on Steven C. Dubin's Arresting Images: Impolitic
Art and
Uncivil Actions
* Report from Australia
Winter Walkabout by Robert Berlind
* Report from Los Angeles
* "LAX" Lifts Off by Michael Duncan
* Review of Exhibitions
New York, Philadelphia, Ithaca, Atlanta, Miami, San Fransisco,
Santa
Monica, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Broken Hill
* Artworld
* Plus lots of interesting advertisements!
American Art Review - Winter, 1994
Cover: Joseph Whiting Stock, Miss Perkins, 1840. o/c, 30 x 26, Museum
of Arts and
Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida, gift of Kenneth Worcester Dow and
Mary Mohan
Dow.
* Emmanuel Leutze,
Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth
* Thomas Hovenden, Dem Was Good Ole Times
by H. Nichols B. Clark
* Charles Prendergast, Beauties of a Quiet Kind
by Nancy Mowll Matthews
* Thomas Hotchkiss, Dreams and Shadows
by Tracie Felker
* Arvin Gottlieb Collection,
* Paintings from the American Southwest
by Henry Adams
* The Art of William Sommer
by Wendy Kendall-Hess
* George Curtis, Coming to Light
by John Driscoll
* Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach
Masterworks of Modern Art
by Gary R. Libby
* Henry Keller, Paintings of a Traveler
by William Robinson
* Benjamin West, The Restoration of Lear and Cordelia
by Mark Leonard and Amy Meyers
* Joseph Stella, Madonnas & Related Work
by Irma B. Jaffe
* Free Within Ourselves, African-American Art from the National
Museum of Art
* Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, from the National Academy of Design
by David Dearinger
* Plus lots of interesting advertisements!
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