Inside the Studio: Talks With New York Artists (Paperback)

by Mel Bochner (Author), Janine Antoni (Author), Leon Golub (Author), Vik Muniz (Author), Fred Wilson (Author), Andrea Zittel (Author), Judith Richards (Editor), David Levinthal (Photographer)

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Since 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artist's studio. The New York Studio Events program has visited some 200 distinguished artists throughout its history, including Janine Antoni, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Petah Coyne, Leon Golub, David Levinthal, Mary Lucier, Laurie Simmons, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, Vik Muniz and Andrea Zittel. Inside the Studio shares for the first time the invaluable archive of audio recordings made during these events, excerpting from approximately 75 of the most fascinating to provide an exceptional oral record of these artists' thinking about their working processes, conceptual issues, the current scene and artists whose work they themselves admire.~Founded in 1975, ICI's mission is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through traveling exhibitions and other activities that reach a diverse national and international audience. Collaborating with a wide range of eminent curators over the years, ICI has created some 100 exhibitions that collectively have included the work of more than 2,500 artists, presented at over 450 art spaces located throughout the United States, and 20 other countries. Edited by Judith Richards.~FULL CONTRIBUTOR LIST (Group Survey Anthology): Judith Richards, Richard Tuttle, Janine Antoni, David Levinthal, Louise Bourgeois, Leon Golub, Mel Bochner, Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in./320 pgs / 75 color 100 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20077

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Independent Curators International, New York (June 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916365700
• ISBN-13: 978-0916365707
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #88,679 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting insight., November 29, 2007

By	Tara Ebeling - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was required to read this book for a graduate class. That's not a bad thing. I'm very pleased with my purchase. I found it esspecially helpful as a book for examples of how to write about art. The book is a collection of writings about the studio practices of artists living in New York, written by those artists. Many of the section were written in the 80's which is interesting as it lets you peek into the studios of those who since then have changed ways of working. Some artists discuss how and why they got into the arts in the first place, or why they choose to work in certain materials, or what work that they made did they find very unsucessful.

Each artist essentially gets two-three pages and the artisist include: (though this is not a complete list)
- Judy Pfaff
- Leon Golub
- Robert Mappelthorpe
- Chuck Close
- Sean Scully
- Vito Acconci
- Louise Bourgeois
- Jim Dine
- Joel Shapiro
- Terry Winters
- Richard Deacon
- Oliver Herring
- Tony Cragg
- Kiki Smith
- Mark Dion
- Fred Tomaselli

(this is less than half of the artists)

Overall I would say it is a good insight into the lives of some great artists and thier working practices.