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Lorna Simpson is one of the leading artists of her generation, devoted to the beauty of image-making, innovatively juxtaposing the figure and gesture with text and narrative. This rich monograph, created to accompany the major retrospective of Simpson's work touring in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York (among other destinations) beginning this spring, includes insightful essays by curator and critic Okwui Enwezor and New Yorker writer Hilton Als, and a conversation with the artist, Isaac Julien, and Thelma Golden, along with 126 reproductions from Simpson's formally elegant, subtly provocative body of work-including her recent work.
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A 20-year gallery and retrospective of contemporary artist Lorna Simpson's photographic and text works.......2006-08-06
Organized by the American Federation of the Arts, Lorna Simpson is a 20-year gallery and retrospective of contemporary artist Lorna Simpson's photographic and text works. Unafraid to delve into themes of race, sexuality, and loss, Simpson's striking imagery of the human figure, often cropped, speaks directly to the viewer. Black-and- white and color photographs give the reader the next best thing to a tour of a gallery of Simpson's art, and the brief text passages include commentary on Simpson's creations and a conversation with the artist. Lorna Simpson is an excellent contribution to personal, academic, and community library photographic and artbook collections.
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- Really one of the better "insider" views you'll see
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Aperture: On Location With : Annie Leibovitz, Lorna Simpson, Susan Meiselas, Cindy Sherman, Adam Fuss, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jon Goodman (Aperture)
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Really one of the better "insider" views you'll see.......2006-12-04
This is a relatively short book, but the content gives you a glimpse that you rarely get: photographers talking about specific images and the way they work. There are plenty of "interview" books with excellent lens-based artists, and I have many if not most of them. This one gives you specific commentary. The pictures are nice too. Many of them are not that common, at least to me.
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Lorna Simpson (Contemporary Artists)
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ASIN: 0714840386 |
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Photo-based artist and filmmaker Lorna Simpson is considered one of the key representatives of Black-American visual culture. Emerging in the 1980s, Lorna Simpson was in 1993 the first African-American woman ever to show in the Venice Biennale and to have a solo exhibition in the 'Projects' series of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is also one of very few Black-American artists ever to have exhibited at Documenta, in 1987 and 2002.Simpson's well-known fragmented photographs combining images with fragments of text create mysterious, quiet works that reflect the silence of a portion of society - African-American women - rarely if ever represented in art. Curator of Simpson's Autumn 2002 exhibition at the Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, Thelma Golden talks about the artist's shift from her signature photographic work to her recent, more filmic and sculptural art. In her Survey critic and scholar Kellie Jones places the work in the context of the history of African-American culture as well as the recent history of self-portraiture in art through photography and performance. Curator of Simpson's film presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 2002, Chrissie Iles analyses in her Focus the artist's filmworks including a new work to be screened at Documenta 11 (2002). The artist's fragmentary usage of speech is paralleled in her Artist's Choice, an extract from Top Dog/UnderDog by contemporary African-American playwright Suzan Lori Parks, and reflected in her Artist's Writings.
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- Contemplative and thought provoking collection
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Contemporary Voices
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Glenn Lowry ,
Vija Celmins ,
Howard Hodgkin ,
Susan Rothenberg ,
Richard Artschwager ,
Francesco Clemente ,
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Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Howard Hodgkin: The Complete Paintings: Catalogue Raisonne
ASIN: 0870700898
Release Date: 2005-02-15 |
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This visually exciting book, which presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, is drawn from the UBS Art Collection. One of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the United States, the Collection was begun in 1970 by Donald B. Marron, UBS's American Chairman, a Vice Chairman and former President of the Museum, and a Trustee of the Museum since 1975. This unique publication accompanies an exhibition of 74 of these outstanding works of art, including 44 that were a gift to the Museum in 2002. The works reproduced here include paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and mixed-media pieces by a wide and varied array of significant artists, including Joseph Beuys, Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and many others. In addition, Ann Temkin, Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, interviewed 11 of these artists for the book, producing illuminating conversations about how they work, the origins of their ideas, and other topics. The artists interviewed include Vija Celmins, Damien Hirst, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, and Lorna Simpson. Also included is an interview with Donald B. Marron by Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art.
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Contemplative and thought provoking collection.......2006-01-07
I was surprised by the depth and range of this book. The visuals are cold, yet contemplative. It's like a Michael Snow film in book form.
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Double Consciousness
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ASIN: 0936080922
Release Date: 2005-04-15 |
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"Double Consciousness explores the conceptual art practices of African-American artists over the past 35 years, using as its underpinning, the ""reflexive"" nature of art-making which emerged with the avant-garde of the late 1960s. The exhibition chronicles conceptual art as practice of ideas as manifested through the use of everyday materials and objects--performance as action; interventions or critiques; as well as writings. It also focuses on the evolution of conceptual art in subsequent decades as a tool to deconstruct existing precepts regarding gender and race, and as a strategy in presenting ideas regarding the complexities of contemporary society and how artists skillfully negotiate these complexities as it relates to themselves and the community at large. The exhibition's concept is an aesthetic contribution to the rethinking of DuBois's ""double conciousness"" theory that asserts that African-Americans are no longer relegated to looking at themselves through the eyes of others, but rather through their own gaze. The catalogue features a chronology of significant events that have helped shape the language and ideas of artists over the last century as well as an anthology by a few artists in the exhibition--Adrian Piper, Charles Gaines, Arthur Jafa, Howardena Pindell, to name a few. Participating artists include Terry Adkins, Edgar Arceneaux, Sanford Biggers, Ellen Gallagher, Jennie C. Jones, Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, Gary Simmons, Nari Ward, and others."
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Image Stream
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Aruna d'Souza ,
Tacita Dean ,
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Helen Molesworth ,
Hamza Walker ,
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Kutlug Ataman ,
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Manufacturer: Wexner Center for the Arts
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ASIN: 1881390349
Release Date: 2004-01-02 |
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Description: Image Stream brings together eight gallery-based film and video works, each of which explore the limits of this new medium, returning to narrative and changing conventional modes of viewing. Curator Helen Molesworth in this her first exhibition for the Wexner Art Center has selected works by Kutlug Ataman, Matthew Barney, Tacita Dean, Andrea Fraser, Pierre Huyghe, Neil Jordan, Donald Moffett, and Lorna Simpson, each of which is accompanied by an individual short analytical essay. As Molesworth writes in her introduction, "The hygenic isolation of the white cube has slowly, but steadily, been overtaken by an increasingly promiscuous black box. As any turn-of-the-century member of the art public knows, darkened rooms and heavy black curtains signal the omnipresent film and/or video installation." If an earlier generation of film and video artists were concerned with the formal properties of film, she argues, today's contemporary artists "willingly explore visual forms borrowed from both Hollywood and auteur film, as well as television, MTV, CNN, and the theater. This profligate borrowing of mass-media forms has been accompanied by a strong impulse towards narrative." It is what Molesworth calls this "reciprocity" between art wold and mass culture that is a "defining characteristic of contemporary projected images."
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- I didn't want to return this book to the university library.
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Lorna Simpson: Interior/Exterior, Full/Empty
Lorna Simpson , and
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I didn't want to return this book to the university library........1999-02-28
This book was beautifully written. Concise, yet thorough. The essays offered excellent explanations of Lorna Simpson's more recent work. The simplicity of the photos was underscored by the author's ability to explain, in detail exactly what Simpson's intent is in each photograph. The photos and text tell stories so well you feelas if you're watching a scene from a movie or playing the role of voyuer. The bathtub scenes between two Black women are powerful. Whenever I feel beaten down by racism and sexism I just remember, 'You. . . will. . . see. . . me.' Although it's a small book, I referenced it several times in my thesis. This book is probably one of the reasons I received less criticism from my committee on my Lorna Simpson section than any other part in my project. I loved Interior/Exterior, Full/Empty so much I kept it almost 6 months.
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- This book was spectacular! I referenced it in my thesis.
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Lorna Simpson (Untitled ; 54)
Deborah Willis , and
Andy Grundberg
Manufacturer: Friends of Photography
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ASIN: 0933286600 |
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This book was spectacular! I referenced it in my thesis........1999-02-28
I read Untitled 54 while completing my thesis. It was well written and the photographs were wonderful! I was very impressed with the summaries and the interview at the end shed light on the ideas that influence Simpson's work. It was one of the most insightful catalogues I've read, concise and to the point. Another catalogue worth reading is Interior/Exterior, Full/Empty, a beautifully written book about Lorna Simpson's more recent work.
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A lifetime of poems, 1929-1986
Lorna W Simpson
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ASIN: B000710JMG |
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- Get this only if you're mad about Mad
- Classic "MAD" parodies from the classic comic book years
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The Bedside Mad
Manufacturer: Warner Books, Inc.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0446860409 |
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Do you have trouble getting to sleep at night? Do you toss and turn hour after hour, worrying and fretting about bills, health, and happiness? Well, we know what it's like! And here's our answer... TRY BEDSIDE MAD! You'll smile at "Outer Sanctum"! You'll grin at "Hah Noon"! You'll giggle at "Casey at the Bat"! You'll howl at "Cane Mutiny"! You'll get hysterical at "The Lone Stranger Rides again"! Unfortunately, all this won't help you get to sleep at night! But it will help us get to sleep at night!
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Get this only if you're mad about Mad.......2005-04-03
This book is different from its Mad fellows in that everything is printed sideways, so that you have to hold the book like a wall calendar and turn the pages "up" as you go.
Other than that, the book is once again a faithful repackaging of the comic talents that made Mad Magazine such an amazing success. There are parodies of Westerns, "The Caine Mutiny," and the three Musketeer's among other things. Considering that the book was first published in the fifties, this stuff has aged pretty well.
In general, however, I would recommend another book in the series, and that only if you're truly in love with the Mad way of life.
Classic "MAD" parodies from the classic comic book years.......2004-07-30
The original edition of "The Bedside MAD" was published in April 1959 by Signet Books. Originally Ballantine Books had started printing "MAD" paperbacks and published the first five, but Signet offered a better deal and Bill Gaines changed publishers. So this is the sixth book in the series of anniversary reprints of the early "MAD" paperbacks and explains the giant "ANNIVERSARY EDITION" banner running along the right border of the cover.
The title "The Bedside MAD" was a take off on the various "bedside readers" that were in vogue at the time and offers the first original cover art for a "MAD" paperback, done by illustrator Kelly Freas (compare with the Norman Mingo cover for the 1973 reissue on page xii). "MAD" has switched to being a magazine in 1959, but with two exceptions the material contained here is from the comic book period when it was created, written, and edited by Harvey Kurtzman. "Outer Sanctum!" is a Kurtzman classic from "MAD" #5 that manages to do a parody of both the radio thriller "Inner Sanctum" and all of the E.C. horror comics like "Tales from the Crypt." "The Lone Stranger Rides Again!" is, as the title indicates, a second look at "The Lone Ranger" from "MAD" #8 (cf. "MAD" #3).
There are some choice examples from some of the best artists in the "MAD" gang of usual idiots. Jack Davis does "Scenes We'd....Like to See!" and "Slow Motion," as well as the classic parody of "Hah! Noon!" from "MAD" #9, and a new take on Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat!" ("MAD" #6). Wallace Wood does "The Cane Mutiny" from "MAD" #19 (with "Captain Kweeg"). Bill Elder chips in with art on "Medical" ("MAD" #28), "Restaurant" ("MAD" #16), and the Kurtzman written "Robinson Crusoe!" ("MAD" #13).
All of these bits predate the point in my life when I started reading and enjoying the sick humor offered by "MAD," but if your choice is going back and looking at the old stuff or trying to make your way through the new stuff, then I say turn your back on the present and look backwards, boys and girls, to when "MAD" was a comic book and not a magazine. There are so many classic bits here that when I picked up the collected E.C. library I went with the option for getting the "MAD" volumes in color. That was not a mistake.
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Reprint of early MAD paperback from 1959
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Spanning generations.......2005-05-11
I first purchased "The Bedside Mad" at a garage sale as an 11-year-old kid in the 1970s. I read it, re-read it, and then read it some more.
As a fan of Mad magazine way back when, "The Bedside Mad" was very different from what I was used to. It didn't take me long, however, to start rolling on the floor laughing. I'd seen some of the artists' work before, notably that of Jack Davis, in the magazine; however, I'd never seen anything by Wally Wood or Bill Elder. Elder, in particular, captured my imagination: "Outer Sanctum" and "Restaurant" have *so many* puns, jokes, and funny details in the background of the drawings that it makes me chuckle now just thinking about it. Over the years I purchased more of the old Mad paperbacks, and Elder's work was always "it" for me.
Many years later, I still have my old copy of "The Bedside Mad", and have now corrupted my own two kids' minds with it! They love it as much as I did.
A classic........2004-12-10
In addition to what's been said, this book seems to illustrate well the transition of Mad Magazine from the "Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad" mock-horror genre to the general satire that would come later. The Scenes We'd Like To See segment, the Cane Mutiny send-up, and others are typical of the Mad of the 1960s, but the "Outer Sanctum" segment seems to hark back to the earlier era.
Classic "MAD" parodies from the classic comic book years.......2004-05-08
The original edition of "The Bedside MAD" was published in April 1959 by Signet Books. Originally Ballantine Books had started printing "MAD" paperbacks and published the first five, but Signet offered a better deal and Bill Gaines changed publishers. So this is the sixth book in the series of anniversary reprints of the early "MAD" paperbacks and explains the giant "ANNIVERSARY EDITION" banner running along the right border of the cover.
The title "The Bedside MAD" was a take off on the various "bedside readers" that were in vogue at the time and offers the first original cover art for a "MAD" paperback, done by illustrator Kelly Freas (compare with the Norman Mingo cover for the 1973 reissue on page xii). "MAD" has switched to being a magazine in 1959, but with two exceptions the material contained here is from the comic book period when it was created, written, and edited by Harvey Kurtzman. "Outer Sanctum!" is a Kurtzman classic from "MAD" #5 that manages to do a parody of both the radio thriller "Inner Sanctum" and all of the E.C. horror comics like "Tales from the Crypt." "The Lone Stranger Rides Again!" is, as the title indicates, a second look at "The Lone Ranger" from "MAD" #8 (cf. "MAD" #3).
There are some choice examples from some of the best artists in the "MAD" gang of usual idiots. Jack Davis does "Scenes We'd....Like to See!" and "Slow Motion," as well as the classic parody of "Hah! Noon!" from "MAD" #9, and a new take on Ernest Lawrence Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat!" ("MAD" #6). Wallace Wood does "The Cane Mutiny" from "MAD" #19 (with "Captain Kweeg"). Bill Elder chips in with art on "Medical" ("MAD" #28), "Restaurant" ("MAD" #16), and the Kurtzman written "Robinson Crusoe!" ("MAD" #13).
All of these bits predate the point in my life when I started reading and enjoying the sick humor offered by "MAD," but if your choice is going back and looking at the old stuff or trying to make your way through the new stuff, then I say turn your back on the present and look backwards, boys and girls, to when "MAD" was a comic book and not a magazine. There are so many classic bits here that when I picked up the collected E.C. library I went with the option for getting the "MAD" volumes in color. That was not a mistake.
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THE BEDSIDE MAD
Manufacturer: Signet
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ASIN: B000H28FNK |
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The Bedside MAD
William M. Gaines
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ASIN: B000HZ0990 |
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A substitute for television to entertain you in bed.
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THE BEDSIDE MAD.
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ASIN: B000HJ8ST4 |
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The Bedside: Mad #6
Mad
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