September–October 2014
Life at Home
We are pleased to announce that the September–October 2014 issue of Art in Print is out now.
The simplistic habit of equating physical size with cultural importance is a blunder. The world’s most widely traveled, socially gregarious and conceptually complex art objects can often be fit into a studio apartment.
For the September–October issue of Art in Print we invited writers, artists and scholars to consider domesticity—the domain where art and life intersect most intimately—in all its conflicted glory. The topics range from Edward Bawden‘s pocket-sized and gimlet-eyed Life in an English Village (discussed by Andrew Raftery), to Louise Lawler‘s wall-conquering vector traced photographs of famous art in private settings (reviewed by Owen Duffy). Julia V. Hendrickson uncovers the critical role of wallpaper in the creation of modernist painterly space, while Stamos Fafalios and Vassilis Zidianakis reconsider the 1960s fad of printed paper dresses that stretched from Warhol to Nixon. Henri Matisse (exhibition review by Chara Kolokytha) famously invited home furnishings into the picture when he argued that art should be “something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue”; but recent artists have laid claim more aggressively to the very architecture of residential space, as in the Wall Works exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof (reviewed by Susan Tallman). And in this issue’s Prix de Print, guest juror and curator/consultant Nigel Frank celebrates Brian Cohen’s portrait of Walter White, Breaking Bad’s meth-dealing homebody.
Also:
Exhibitions: Jasper Johns’s recent exhibitions at MoMA and at the Katonah Museum of Artare reviewed by Allison Rudnick; Sarah Grant considers Georg Baselitz’s recent double bill as the main artist in Germany Divided at the British Museum and the main lender to the chiaroscuro woodcuts exhibition at the Royal Academy; and Sharon Mizota covers the Pasadena Museum’s homage to June Wayne, artist and founder of Tamarind Lithography Workshop.
New Editions: Jim Dine’s new, monumental portfolio, A History of Communism, is built on a foundation of East German art school litho stones, and is, in the artist’s words, “the culmination of sixty years of my love affair with intaglio.”
New Books: Jasper Kettner reviews White Noise, the first major catalogue devoted to the work of Christiane Baumgartner; and Hans Jakob Meier reviews Stephen Bann‘s new and important book, Distinguished Images, which upends many of the accepted truths about the impact of photography on 19th-century aesthetics.
Also in this issue:
–Listings: new editions
–Listings: new books and catalogues
–Calendar of print exhibitions and events
–News of the print world
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