Robert Storr : writings on art 1980-2005 /

"Following on from the much-lauded Interviews on Art, HENI presents the first in a two-volume publication featuring the collected writings on art by Robert Storr, one of the world's leading art critics and curators. Featuring the best of Storr's criticism, reviews, essays and other wr...

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Main Author: Storr, Robert (Author)
Other Authors: Pietropaolo, Francesca (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [London] : Heni Publishing, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • The accidental critic / Robert Storr
  • When sparks fly: a wordsmith in his own right / Francesca Pietropaolo
  • 1980s. Anne and Patrick Poirier; Aldo Roddi
  • Louise Bourgeois: gender & possession
  • Roy DeCarava at the Studio Museum in Harlem
  • Pearlstein today: upping the ante
  • Rackstraw Downes: painter as geographer
  • Desperate pleasures [Eric Fischl]
  • Peter Saul: radical distaste
  • Frank Stella's Norton Lectures. A response
  • "Tilted arc": enemy of the people? [Richard Serra]
  • The theoretical come-on [Yvonne Rainer]
  • Added dimension [Elizabeth Murray]
  • Other 'others'
  • The scholar-artist: Meyer Schapiro
  • Nancy Spero: central issues - peripheral visions
  • Riddled sphinxes [Leon Golub]
  • Master Bill [Willem de Kooning]
  • Louise Lawler: unpacking the white cube
  • 1990s. Fertile mirrors [Arshile Gorky]
  • All in a day's work [Susan Rothenberg]
  • No joy in Mudville: Greenberg's modernism then and now
  • Two hundred beats per min. [Jean-Michel Basquiat]
  • Art, censorship, and the First Amendment. This is not a test
  • DISLOCATIONS
  • Martin Puryear: the hand's proportion
  • Making Maus [Art Spiegelman]
  • The architect of emptiness [Ilya Kabakov]
  • Do the wrong thing: Eva Hesse and the abstract grotesque
  • Beyond words [Bruce Nauman]
  • The stop-action cosmos [Vija Celmins]
  • Foreword [Adrian Piper]
  • The struggle between forgetting and remembering [Rachel Whiteread]
  • The gentle art of pleasing oneself [Rudy Burckhardt]
  • Masquerades and operas [Jörg Immendorff]
  • Beastly beauties [Jim Nutt]
  • No stage, no actors, but it's theater (and art)
  • A piece of the action [Jackson Pollock]
  • 2000s. The devil's handyman [H.C. Westermann]
  • Slow burn [Carroll Dunham]
  • The Beckmann Effect
  • Sunday in the park with Franz [Franz West]
  • Chéri Samba, painter of modern life
  • Disparities and deformations: our grotesque
  • What's not to like? [Mike Kelley]
  • He who gets slapped [Martin Kippenberger]
  • Touching down lightly [Richard Tuttle]
  • Bibliography: Robert Storr.