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JFK
A Photographic Memoir
Lee Friedlander
The public outpouring of
support for newly elected
President John F. Kennedy
in 1960 was exceeded in
scope and magnitude by
the manifestations of grief
and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses
had an unusually strong visual component: likenesses of the
president were framed in shop windows, pinned to living
room walls and plastered in public spaces across the nation.
Fifty years after Kennedy’s death, this book observes the
public’s reaction to the president’s election and assassination,
featuring many photographs published here for the first time.
In his travels throughout America during this period,
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) encountered these responses and
photographed what he witnessed. From Washington, D.C.,
to Buffalo to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Friedlander has
captured a moment in American history that galvanised the
nation and continues to resonate today.
Lee Friedlander is a photographer based in New York City.
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery
September 60 pp. 216x235mm. 49 tritone illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19108-0 £35.00*
Translation rights: Yale University Art Gallery
Portraits
Luc Tuymans
Essays by Robert Storr
and Toby Kamps
With contributions by
Susan Sutton and Clare Elliott
Luc Tuymans is a painter
engaged with ‘figuration’, using
imagery that he reworks in a
critical or self-critical way.
He combines images from various sources – photographs, film
stills, mirror images – with a spare palette, unexpected
cropping, obscured spaces and blurring to reinforce the
painted image’s status as a replica. Perhaps more than any
other genre, portraiture allows Tuymans to explore the balance
between revealing and concealing.
Portraits: Luc Tuymans presents about 30 paintings from bodies of
work ranging over the artist’s entire career. Most seem conventional
portraits – Himmler, 1997/98, A Flemish Intellectual, 1995 – but
others, such as Bloodstains, 1993, and Fingers, 1995, exhibit the
artist’s elliptical approach to re-presentation.
Exhibition The Menil Collection, 27/09/13 – 05/01/14
Robert Storr is an art critic and dean of the Yale University
School of Art. Toby Kamps is curator of modern and
contemporary art at the Menil Collection.
Distributed for The Menil Collection
November 128 pp. 292x235mm. 65 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19644-3 £35.00*
Translation rights: Menil Foundation, Houston
A Conspiracy
of Images
Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter,
and the Art of the Cold War
John J. Curley
In October 1962, a set of blurred
surveillance photographs brought
the world to the brink of nuclear
apocalypse during the Cuban
Missile Crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and
explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for
the public. In the following months, two artists with antithetical
backgrounds arrived at a similar aesthetic: Andy Warhol, who
began his career as a commercial artist in New York City, turned
to the silkscreened replication of violent photographs. Gerhard
Richter, who began as a mural painter in socialist Dresden, East
Germany, painted blurred versions of personal and media
photographs. In A Conspiracy of Images, author John J. Curley
explores how the artists’ developing aesthetic approaches were
informed by the political agency and ambiguity of images
produced during the Cold War, particularly those disseminated
by the mass media on both sides. As the first scholarly
consideration of the visual conditions of the Cold War,
A Conspiracy of Images provides a new and compelling
transatlantic model for Cold War art history.
John J. Curley is assistant professor of art history at Wake
Forest University.
October 296 pp. 254x203mm. 32 colour + 136 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-18843-1 £40.00*
Robert Indiana
Beyond LOVE
Barbara Haskell
With essays by René
Paul Barilleaux and
Sasha Nicholas
Robert Indiana’s popular LOVE works have made the esteemed
Pop artist a household name. Their fame and ubiquity have
also served to eclipse the rest of his dynamic, conceptually
charged work. Robert Indiana: Beyond LOVE is a compelling
reassessment of the artist’s contributions to American art
during his long and prolific career.
Indiana has explored the power of language, American identity
and personal history for five decades. Although visually
dazzling and apparently cheerful on the surface, his imagery
has a depth and a darkness that draws on his own biography as
well as on the myths, history and literature of the United
States.
Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, 26/09/13 – 5/1/14
McNay Art Museum, Spring 2014
Barbara Haskell is curator at the Whitney Museum of
American Art.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
November 256 pp. 279x241mm. 175 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19686-3 £40.00*
Translation rights: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Robert Indiana, EAT/DIE, 1962. Oil on canvas, 2 panels; 182.9 x 152.4 cm each. Private collection.
© 2013 Morgan Art Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York