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Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes 2008 The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with manicured suburban lawns and the inchoate darkness that lurks just beneath... read more » |
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Frida Kahlo 2007 Frida Kahlo’s paintings and person illustrate the inevitable intertwining of freedom and pain, embodying the heroic reclamation of self and the repudiation of social repression through the art-making process. She is a woman both of her time and ours. Born in 1907, on the cusp of a new century, she... read more » |
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Brave New Worlds 2007 Addressing contemporary international art beyond glib expressions of globalism, Brave New Worlds assesses the current state of political consciousness and its multivalent artistic manifestations in an era characterized by the unraveling of a unified world order.... read more » |
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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love 2007 We wanted the catalogue to represent a kind of composite portrait of the artist Kara Walker’s own version of a “slave narrative.” We also strove to avoid what has become a cliché in presenting the her work—black silhouettes against a white background. To achieve this, we set the tone by... read more » |
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ANDY WARHOL/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters, 1962-1964 2005 This catalogue documents Andy Warhol's work from 1962-1964 when his focus shifted to the tragedy of celebrity, providing a mirror for the mass media. New writings and insight about Warhol’s work and its legacy are included. The catalogue design resonates with its subject matter: both Warhol’s... read more » |
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Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005 2005 This book documents the artist Kiki Smith’s first major career survey and includes an illustrated chronology, bibliography, exhibition history, artist interview, and an original artwork insert by the artist. Smith’s work frequently references the human body, which is echoed directly on the cover... read more » |
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House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective 2005 A Walker-produced exhibition catalogue accompanies the first retrospective of work by an artist who draws from such sources as ancient Chinese thought, current affairs, Western and Chinese art histories, and contemporary critical theories. The fully-illustrated volume sheds light on Huang’s unique... read more » |
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Expanding the Center: Walker Art Center and Herzog & de Meuron 2005 Opening to critical acclaim in April 2005, the Walker Art Center expansion was the culmination of an extraordinary partnership between the institution and Pritzker Prize–winning architects Herzog & de Meuron. Expanding the Center chronicles the five-year effort... read more » |
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Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 2005 Copublished by the Walker and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the 144-page, full-color exhibition catalogue features Chuck Close’s investigation of his own image in paintings, photography, and works on paper. read more » |
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Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections 2005 A primer on contemporary art, the Walker's new catalogue captures the institution's multidisciplinary history and reflects many of its commissions and extensive collection of paintings, sculptures, prints, photography, design, film/video, new media, and performing arts. The 616-page volume includes... read more » |