Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95 [Hardcover]

Vija Celmins (Author), Luis Cruz Azaceta (Author), Judith Francisca Baca (Author), Jennifer Bartlett (Author)

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Publication Date: March 2002

From Barbara Kruger's screenprinted feminist billboards to Felix Gonzalez-Torres's stacks of posters featuring head shots of people killed by guns; from Elizabeth Murray's colorful abstract lithographs to Anselm Kiefer's woodcuts embedded in Germany history; from Lucian Freud's moody figure study etchings to Donald Judd's rigid, monochromatic, serially geometric woodcuts--Thinking Printis a broad, ambitious, and varied survey of printed art from the last two decades . Exploring the role of prints, deluxe illustrated books, inexpensive artist's books, and editioned multiples in contemporary art, this exceptionally comprehensive volume covers 235 works by some 147 artists, and includes essays on techniques, formats, and themes, as well as biographic notes on all of the artists and publishers. Originally published on the occasion of a 1996 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Deborah Wye is the Chief Curator of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087070124X
• ISBN-13: 978-0870701245
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 9.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thinking Print-expansive thinking /curating by MOMA's Wye, January 12, 2002

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This review is from: Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95 (Hardcover)

"Thinking Print: books to billboards..." was a groundbreaking late 20th c. exhibition curated by Deborah Wye, a most thorough and original cultural /art historian. Wye is a curator with a fantasitc eye and an obsession for producing exhibitions and catalogs which explore their subject in-depth. In this particular instance, Wye is re-examining definitions and boundaries for the print medium in a manner that had yet to be accomplished. Her passion and scholarship regarding print, as a medium of expression and a medium for dissemination permates the pages. This catalog is a must have for libraries, as well as any serious artist, scholar or collector interested in printmaking from traditional to groundbreaking--from ink and paper to pixels.