Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 - Yale University Press

Michael R. Taylor is the Muriel and PhilipBerman Curator of Modern Art at thePhiladelphia Museum of Art. He is theauthor of Marcel Duchamp: Étantdonnés (see below left).October 400 pp. 298x228mm.40 b/w + 270 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-15441-2 £45.00*Arshile GorkyA RetrospectiveArt 45Edited by Michael R. TaylorWith essays by Michael R. Taylor, Kim S. Theriault, Jody Patterson,Harry Cooper and Robert Storr • Chronology by Melissa KerrArshile Gorky was one of the central figures in American art’s shift towardsabstraction during the first half of the 20th century. Accompanying the first majorretrospective of his work in almost thirty years, this stunning book traces theevolution of Gorky’s arresting visual style. Nearly 200 paintings, drawings,sculptures and prints from all phases of his career, a number of which are publishedhere for the first time, are beautifully reproduced, including a large figurativepainting from 1927 known previously only through its preparatory studies.Throughout the volume, some of Gorky’s best-known and most powerful works arepaired with related pieces or with meticulous preliminary studies, shedding newlight on his artistic process. Illustrated essays incorporating recently discoveredbiographical information and photographs examine his experience of the Armeniangenocide (during which he witnessed the death of his mother), his collaborationwith the Works Progress Administration, and his early explorations of abstractionand Surrealism, providing important reassessments of his life and career.Exhibition schedulePhiladelphia Museum of Art, 15/10/09 – 10/1/10Tate Modern, London, 2/10 – 5/10The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 6/10 – 9/10Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of ArtTranslation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, PhiladelphiaMarcel DuchampÉtant donnésMichael R. TaylorContributions by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan,Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka and Elena TorokIn his thirties, Duchamp convinced everyone that he hadabandoned making art in favour of playing chess. But from 1946to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio. There he producedhis final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gazd’éclairage. Unveiled at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1969,it startled the art world with its eroticism and voyeurism. Sinceits debut, Étant donnés has been recognised as one of the mostimportant works of the 20th century. This book is published onthe fortieth anniversary of the original installation of Étant donnésand to accompany the first major exhibition on the artwork.Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 15/8/09 – 29/11/09September 460 pp. 228x298mm. 238 b/w + 360 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-14979-1 £45.00*Manual of Instructions Étant donnés:1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage… Revised editionMarcel DuchampPreface by Anne d’Harnoncourt • Essay by Michael R. TaylorOut of print for a number of years, this facsimile of MarcelDuchamp’s Manual of Instructions includes a new essay by MichaelR. Taylor as well as the first English translation of the artist’s text.Anne d’Harnoncourt was formerly the Director, both at thePhiladelphia Museum of Art. Michael R. Taylor, details above.September 66 pp. 305x273mm. 119 b/w + 18 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-14980-7 £30.00*Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of ArtTranslation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, PhiladelphiaWillie Doherty: Requisite DistanceGhost Storyand LandscapeCharles WylieWith a contributionby Erin K. MurphyThe art of WillieDoherty (b. 1959), oneof Northern Ireland’smost important artists,joins history, memoryand language into an enveloping experience. This cataloguefeatures two bodies of Doherty’s work: Ghost Story, a tenselybeautiful 15-minute media work based on landscape andmemory, and a selection of photographs of the borderlandsbetween Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.Arising from the region’s Troubles, Doherty’s art is nonethelessuniversal in effect and can be seen independent of any specificcontext. Charles Wylie’s essay deals with how Ghost Story evokesa mind at work trying to recall unsettling things, and the impactof memory on the present. Critically acclaimed at the 2007Venice Biennale, Ghost Story is paired with eleven large-scalecolour photographs from the 1990s that powerfully depict theIrish landscape as a site of unease amidst lyrical beauty.Exhibition schedule Dallas Museum of Art, 23/5 – 16/8/09Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana,autumn 2010Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator ofContemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and author ofRobert Ryman and Sigmar Polke: History of Everything.Distributed for the Dallas Museum of ArtAugust 96 pp. 216x254mm. 65 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-15255-5 £18.00*Translation rights: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas