Title & Author:

A Forest of signs : art in the crisis of representation / edited by Catherine Gudis.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1989]

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"This publication accompanies the exhibition, 'A Forest of signs: art in the crisis of representation, ' May 7-August 13, 1989, curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Ann Goldstein, and organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles"--Title page verso.
"Texts by Ann Goldstein [and others]; foreword by Richard Koshalek"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Richard Koshalek -- Introduction and acknowledgments / Ann Goldstein -- Art in the age of Reagan: 1980-1988 / Mary Jane Jacob -- Baim-Williams / Ann Goldstein -- Portfolio of artists' projects. Richard Baim ; Judith Barry ; Ericka Beckman ; Gretchen Bender ; Dara Birnbaum ; Barbara Bloom ; Troy Brauntuch ; Sarah Charlesworth ; Jack Goldstein ; Jenny Holzer ; Larry Johnson ; Ronald Jones ; Mike Kelley ; Jeff Koons ; Barbara Kruger ; Louise Lawler ; Thomas Lawson ; Sherrie Levine ; Robert Longo ; Allan McCollum ; Matt Mullican ; Peter Nagy ; Stephen Prina ; Richard Prince ; Cindy Sherman ; Laurie Simmons ; Haim Steinbach ; Mitchell Syrop ; James Welling ; Christopher Williams -- Photography - Language - Context: Prelude to the 1980s / Anne Rorimer -- In the text / Howard Singerman.
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Summary:

A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broader culture. The thread of representation ties together the work of the 30 artists included in the book, encompassing such issues as allegory, appropriation, and commodification, the role of the artist, and the functions of authorship and originality in vesting meaning in art. Much of the work is provocative, challenging the way we look at art, the way we talk about it, where we see it, and how we buy it. The development of these issues and their role in shifting the focus of much recent art from insistence on the art as object, to a host of representations is addressed in four essays and a section of "artists' pages." In the first essay, exhibition co-organizer Ann Goldstein discusses the individual artists and points to key issues and methods in their art. The artists themselves are represented by a 60 page portfolio of their works. Designed by the artists, these pages include personal statements, the remarks of others, works made specifically for the book and works using the tools of mechanical reproduction. In the three essays that follow, Anne Rorimer, former Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, traces the roots of recent American art to the development of international conceptualism in the 1960s and early 1970s; Mary Jane Jacob, exhibition co-organizer and MOCA Chief Curator, places the artists within the current trends of European as well as American art; and editor and critic Howard Singerman examines the relationship of recent art to its circle of critics and to the emergence of critical theory. -- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0262071193
9780262071192

Subject:

Figurative art, American Exhibitions.
Figurative art California Los Angeles.
Art figuratif États-Unis Expositions.
Art figuratif américain Expositions.
Art figuratif Californie Los Angeles.
Figurative art
Figurative art, American
Kunst.
Maatschappij.
Beïnvloeding.
California Los Angeles
American visual arts - Catalogues, indexes.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Gudis, Catherine. editor.
Jacob, Mary Jane. organizer.
Goldstein, Ann. organizer.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 52772
Call No.: ID EXHX; ID:90-B1590
Status: Available